ANTS Platform Agentic ITAM: the system of record for enterprise AIHow a Fortune 1000 team put every Anthropic model call on a budget
Budget AI as the AI gateway for platform engineering’s Claude models.
developers reaching Anthropic models through Budget AI
annual Anthropic model spend now under budget control
of platform engineering’s Anthropic traffic runs through one gateway
The challenge
Platform engineering provides Anthropic Claude models to 4,500 developers, a $5M-a-year line item. Provider API keys spread across services and scripts, spend arrived as one invoice with no breakdown by team, and nothing could stop a runaway workload before the bill.
The solution
The team put Budget AI in front of every Anthropic model as the company’s AI gateway. Provider credentials are held centrally and never handed out; each app, team or agent gets its own revocable ANTS key with an owner and tags. Claude models sit in model groups, and budgets follow the org chart from project to sub-department: hard budgets refuse requests at the limit, soft budgets alert. Spend and latency are visible by model, key and team.
The results
- Every Anthropic model call goes through one gateway, tied to a key and an owner.
- $5M a year in Anthropic spend visible by model, key and department, under budgets that hold.
- Retired the 10% of keys that were unused, cutting overspend by 20%.