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# AI Monetization

# LLM Cost Management: How to Implement AI Showback and Chargeback

[AI Gateway](/blog/tag/ai-gateway)AI Gateway

Every enterprise moving AI into production is about to face a familiar problem in an unfamiliar form: the cost explosion, but for LLMs. This is very similar to what happened with cloud. In the early days of cloud, teams spun up infrastructure with no visibility into who was consuming what. Finance…

Alex Drag
[](/blog/enterprise/llm-cost-management-ai-showback-and-chargeback)

# Practical Strategies to Monetize AI APIs in Production

[API Gateway](/blog/tag/api-gateway)API Gateway

AI APIs don't get enough credit for how much weight they're actually carrying. These AI APIs aren't merely technical connectors. They're, in fact, cost drivers and potential revenue engines. And when something goes sideways, they're ground zero. In production, they behave nothing like the…

Deepanshu Pandey
[](/blog/engineering/monetize-ai-apis)

## See AI Gateway in Action

Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.

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