Put your AI under
economic control.
Metergrade is the economic control plane for AI, built for platform engineering and FinOps teams. It meters what every workload costs, grades every change against your own quality thresholds, and ships proven improvements as APIM policy, through the controls you already trust.
The name is the method.
Every workload, application and department measured to the request: cost, tokens, latency, quality.
Every candidate change tested against your own thresholds before anything moves. PASS, FAIL or INCONCLUSIVE.
Passing changes emitted as APIM policy, through the approvals you already enforce.
Nothing ships without a passing grade.
Illustrative workload: 38.0% lower inference cost, quality held inside threshold.
Seven workloads are operating above their validated cost range.
Proven in shadow, then deployed
Inside the platform, the method runs as five capabilities.
Observe
Connects to your existing AI infrastructure and establishes a workload-level economic baseline.
Analyze
Detects inefficient model choices, excessive context, output waste, retries and routing issues.
Validate
Tests proposed changes against your own quality, latency and reliability requirements.
PASSFAILINCONCLUSIVE
Deploy
Turns validated improvements into deployment-ready APIM policy, applied through your existing pipeline and approvals.
Govern
Keeps every reported state distinct — measured, projected, validated, deployed — and tied to the evidence that produced it.
Works with the estate you already own.
Metergrade extends Azure API Management and the Azure AI stack. Nothing new sits in your request path.
How much of your AI spend is actually under control?
Most estates cannot attribute their AI spend to an accountable workload.
Unattributed spend cannot be governed
A Metergrade assessment establishes what is measured, attributed and owned, and states plainly what it has not yet established.
Where to start.
Start free. Pay when you’re ready to validate and act.
See whether your AI is economically under control.
Run the Economic Control Check inside your own Azure environment. No account, and no telemetry reaches Metergrade.
Run the checkPreserve what Metergrade found.
Save your economic baseline so the evidence becomes part of an ongoing control record rather than a point-in-time result.
Save a baselineHave someone read your findings with you.
Ninety minutes on your screen, in your environment, with nothing transferred — and an honest answer on whether further work is warranted at all.
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