Your AI bill is out of control. Cloudflare can now fix the problem.

There isn’t a CIO in the world right now who isn’t worried about AI spending. CFOs are also becoming increasingly nervous.

Fearful of falling behind, many companies have pushed their employees to use AI as intensively as possible. The decree was clear: “Hurry up, we will clarify the bill later.” And by and large, it worked: AI brought about real change for the teams that joined.

But the costs are real: We’ve heard countless horror stories about huge bills and painful overages in token issuances.

Today we’re announcing spend controls in the Cloudflare AI Gateway and a closed beta for identity-driven budgets and routing with Cloudflare Access and your existing identity provider.

As we’ve spoken to hundreds of companies about their AI strategy, we’ve seen a common story: the company grants every engineer access to boundary models via a shared API key. Usage is increasing. At the end of the month, the finance department takes the bill and no one can explain where the money went. Was that it…