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How to attribute LLM costs across multi-agent systems: virtual keys per agent role, per-run cost accumulation, budget enforcement, and the observability patterns that prevent surprise bills.
How to structure LLM routing across multi-step agent pipelines: choosing models per task type, handling failures mid-chain, and tracking cost per agent run using a managed gateway.
How a pinned-version dependency and a separate Nemo Backend give us zero merge conflicts, instant upstream updates, and clean service boundaries.
How NemoRouter uses Supabase Row Level Security for tenant isolation in a multi-tenant LLM gateway — single database, zero cross-tenant leaks.
Head-to-head: NemoRouter vs Portkey. Guardrails, A/B tests, prompt management, evals, and per-team budgets — free on every tier. 4% PAYG, 0% on Tier 3 annual prepay. One base-URL switch.
Why teams that scale Claude usage end up writing a proxy layer for rate-limit overflow, multi-team cost tracking, guardrails, and OpenAI-compatibility — and how to skip that work with one base-URL swap. 4% PAYG, 0% on Tier 3 annual.
Two ways an LLM gateway can charge you: feature gating or platform-fee gating. Four competitors do the first; NemoRouter does the second. Public pricing pages, cited row by row, with the math for a $5k/mo team.
Four levers — gateway switch, Tier 3 prepay, provider reservations, free per-team budgets — stacked, with a worked $40k/mo example. Every number cited.
Head-to-head comparison: NemoRouter vs OpenRouter, Portkey, LiteLLM, Helicone. Guardrails, A/B tests, prompt management, evals, budgets — free on every tier. 4% PAYG, 0% on Tier 3 annual prepay. One base-URL switch.
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