Gauge is active financial middleware for AI-native teams — enforcing unit economics in real time, auto-routing traffic when margins break, and telling you exactly when to stop paying OpenAI. Not a dashboard. It pulls triggers.
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Your gateway routes traffic. Your billing tool logs spend. Neither knows what your customers are paying — so neither can act when a single account's agentic loops invert their gross margin at 2am.
Gauge sits between your gateway, payment processor, and compute layer. It acts.
Maps each customer's Stripe subscription to their live gateway key. Computes running gross margin per account in real time. When margin breaches a threshold, automatically downgrades that account to a cheaper SLM — no human required.
Margin floors enforced automatically. No runaway account silently burns your compute budget.
Converts hourly GPU lease rates (idle vs. active) into token-per-dollar metrics and overlays them against your live API spend. Outputs a single crossover date — the exact day self-hosting becomes cheaper than OpenAI.
Turns a six-figure infrastructure gut call into a deterministic decision with a date attached.
Installs as a GitHub App. When a PR modifies a prompt, model, or context window, Gauge simulates cost impact against the last 7 days of production traffic and posts the result as a required status check — before merge.
Engineers cannot ship a $1,400/month prompt change without an auditable cost record in the diff.
// completion.finished event { "customer_id": "cus_NovaMind_8841", "model": "gpt-4o-mini", "usage": { "prompt_tokens": 4812, "completion_tokens": 631 }, "cost_usd": 0.000924, "metadata": { "feature": "rag_document_qa", "agentic_loop_depth": 3 } }
// instance.billing_tick (hourly) { "instance_type": "gpu_1x_h100_sxm5", "billing": { "rate_usd_per_hour": 3.29, "period_cost_usd": 6.58 }, "utilization": { "gpu_active_pct": 61.4, "cost_per_1k_tokens": 0.000799 }, "model_id": "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B" }
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