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Every AI Token Has a Cost, a Risk, and an Owner. Do You Know All Three?
TokenShield governs cost, security, and access at the token level, across Bedrock, Vertex AI/Gemini, Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic, so your data stays safe and your AI budget stays sane. Proven. Guaranteed.
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Every hyperscaler now bills generative AI by the token. Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Vertex AI/Gemini, and Azure OpenAI Service all use consumption based, per token pricing. On all three, the visible per token rate is often the smallest line item: infrastructure, context window overhead, and adjacent charges routinely add 30 to 80% on top of inference cost. Teams spin up keys against multiple providers, token consumption runs unattributed, and sensitive data flows through prompts with no controls. Finance can’t forecast it, security can’t see it, and shadow AI grows by the week, until the day it’s your name on the breach report.
Cloudgov TokenShield
Independently watches two things no other multicloud tool watches together: your AI token spend and where your sensitive data goes once it enters an AI pipeline. Safety and savings, in one place.
Continuous metering and caps on AI/LLM token spend across every model and cloud (Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI), plus automatic tokenization/masking of PII, PCI, and PHI with a standing audit trail. Genuine peace of mind, and real safety, for healthcare, financial services, and public sector buyers.
Removes the top reason regulated customers hesitate to scale agentic AI adoption, governance anxiety, clearing the path for consumption growth on whichever AI service they’re pushing.
Opens a new, high growth managed service line, AI governance and cost oversight, that’s cloud agnostic and something almost no customer currently has covered.
Part of the Cloudgov.ai Shield family. The same proven TokenShield technology already governing $1.9M+ in production AI spend.
How It Works: Three Easy Steps
Once deployed, your Shield family agents work autonomously, taking action within your pre approved FinOps preferences and delivering outcomes without you having to chase engineers across the company. No surprise changes, no disruption, just results.
Route AI traffic through TokenShield with scoped virtual keys, across whichever providers your teams already use.
Cost, access, and guardrail policy is enforced on every request, across every provider, at gateway latency.
Agents enforce policy and optimize spend autonomously within your pre approved guardrails. Governance delivered without chasing engineers for every change, and without disruptive surprises.
Proven Results
Illustrative, benchmark aligned ranges. Your results will vary by environment.
How This Fits Your AI Adoption Program
AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft are each building cost accountability into their own AI service. TokenShield extends that same discipline across every provider an enterprise actually uses.
AWS Bedrock
- Program
- IAM Principal Based Cost Allocation, AWS FinOps Agent
- Structure
- Per token pricing; per token rate is the smallest line item
- How Cloudgov.ai Helps Deliver Outcomes
- TokenShield gateway + guardrails + cost attribution
Google Vertex AI / Gemini
- Program
- Gemini Cloud Assist for FinOps, new Spend Caps
- Structure
- Dynamic per token pricing; context/model tier switching
- How Cloudgov.ai Helps Deliver Outcomes
- TokenShield gateway + guardrails + cost attribution
Azure OpenAI Service
- Program
- Token / Provisioned Throughput Unit (PTU) billing
- Structure
- Retries billable; context windows compound cost
- How Cloudgov.ai Helps Deliver Outcomes
- TokenShield gateway + guardrails + cost attribution
Why Teams Love Cloudgov.ai
One control plane across every cloud and every AI provider. Read only and non mutating by design, FOCUS native for portability, and agentic rather than merely analytical.
Every provider, one fabric
AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini, reconciled and allocated in one platform.
Agentic, not just analytical
Findings flow into policy, approvals, and chargeback. Cloudgov.ai acts on what it sees, not just charts it.
Read only and FOCUS native
Cloudgov.ai never writes to or mutates your accounts. Portable on the FinOps Foundation FOCUS spec.
Best Price Performance ROI Outcomes, Delivered With Zero Bill Shock
TokenShield caps AI/LLM spend and locks down sensitive data in the same motion, so scaling agentic AI doesn’t mean scaling risk or surprise bills. Your money and your data, both kept safe. Guaranteed.
The platform typically pays for itself within the first 90 days through our automation and agentic Shield family product lines, with customers typically seeing 5x ROI in the first year. We help you deliver the outcomes and charge proportionate to those outcomes, and we have various global funding programs in place. Enterprise buyers, AWS/Azure/Google Cloud account teams, and MSPs building the AI practice: get in touch to learn more about how we might be able to help, at no extra cost to you.
Bring governance to every layer of your spend.
See how TokenShield attributes cost and enforces guardrails across every model your teams already use. Save money. Stay safe. Guaranteed.
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