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Concentrate: LLM Gateway

Concentrate is a managed LLM gateway that provides a single API to access over 130 models from major providers. It offers features such as model routing, spend tracking, security controls, and fallback redundancy, designed for teams scaling AI in production.

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The LLM Gateway for Fast Growing Teams

Discover the right model for each workflow.task.

Securely access, use, and manage AI via one API. There's a smarter, faster, cheaper model for every request. Find it here.

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Find the Best Fit Model

Access 130+ models, benchmark cost, speed, and quality, and route each task to the best fit.

Protect Sensitive Data

Keep customer data out of training, logs, and unauthorized models, with privacy and security you can review.

Keep AI Apps Up & Running

Stay online with built-in redundancy that reroutes traffic when providers slow down or fail.

Manage AI Token Spend

Track AI usage by team, project, or employee. Set budgets, catch spikes, and control spend.

Trusted by leading companies to power their AI applications.

How to use Concentrate

STEP 01

Sign up

Create your workspace and add teams.

Workspace

WorkspacePersonal

TeamSupport

STEP 02

Purchase tokens

Use credits on any model or provider. No service fees.

Balance$99.00

Used today$10.42

STEP 03

Connect your app

Create a key, swap your baseURL, route to any model.

API key

base_url = "https://api.concentrate.ai/v1"

STEP 04

Monitor usage

Check logs, spend, redaction, fallbacks, and alerts.

Usage

Spend$8.6k

Requests2.3M

PII redacted12%

Enterprise ready

Enterprise-grade features for teams of any size

Start using AI instantly. As usage grows, Concentrate keeps model access, routing, guardrails, analytics, spend management, and team controls in one place.

What's included:

Universal API Keys

Issue keys without sharing provider-console access.

Team Workspaces

Map teams, projects, and keys to the right owners.

Spend Tracking

See token spend by organization, team, key, model, and provider.

Usage Analytics

View usage by model, provider, team, project, or user.

Request Logs

Filter status, latency, tokens, cost, model, and provider.

Fallbacks

Reroute requests when a selected provider slows down or fails.

Alerts

Monitor balances, key limits, error spikes, and unusual spend.

Data Redaction

Redact sensitive PII, PCI, and PHI from prompts, responses, or both.

ZDR

Turn zero data retention on and enforce it by provider, team, or key.

Audit Controls

Track actor, time, action, entity, and resource changes.

RBAC

Control who can manage members, teams, keys, and settings.

SSO / SAML

Require SSO, verify domains, and connect your identity provider.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

What is Concentrate.ai?

Concentrate is an LLM gateway: one API for every major model provider. It routes requests across models, tracks spend by team and key, reroutes automatically when a provider goes down, and logs every request in one place.

Example: Point your client at Concentrate's base URL, pick a model, and reach OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google through one key.

Who is Concentrate for?

Teams that ship AI in production and pay for tokens, from YC-stage startups to mid-market companies and large enterprises. If you want one API across providers, real-time spend visibility, and controls that grow with usage, Concentrate fits.

Example: A seed-stage product team and a platform org at a global bank can both start with one key and add team budgets, SSO, and audit logs as usage scales.

Do I need to create keys with every provider?

No. Use one Concentrate API key instead of creating and managing separate keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, DeepSeek, and other providers.

Example: Issue one Universal API key for your support app and use it across OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek.

How does Concentrate lower LLM costs?

Concentrate helps you compare models by cost, speed, and quality, then route work to lower-cost models when they are a better fit. You choose what runs where — Concentrate gives you the visibility and routing controls to move workloads, not an opaque automatic swap.

Example: Compare Claude Sonnet, GPT, and Qwen for support summaries, then send that workload to the lowest-cost model that passes your eval.

How is pricing different from OpenRouter?

OpenRouter adds about 3% for payment processing plus a 3% platform fee on top of token cost. Concentrate charges no service fee on tokens. For meaningful usage, we focus on volume-based terms and preferred provider rates where available, with no platform markup on tokens.

Example: Pay token cost without a per-token platform fee on top of provider pricing.

How does Concentrate reduce downtime?

Concentrate supports fallbacks across providers. If one provider slows down or has an outage, your team can route traffic to another provider through the same API.

Example: If Claude on Anthropic direct has an outage, route the same request to Claude on Azure.

What management view does Concentrate give us?

You can see requests, spend, models, providers, teams, keys, logs, limits, and alerts in one place instead of piecing it together across provider dashboards.

Example: A Head of AI can see which teams, keys, models, and providers drove yesterday's spend.

Can finance see where AI spend is going?

Yes. Concentrate tracks spend by organization, team, project, key, model, and provider in real time, so finance and engineering can see what is driving the bill as usage happens — not only at the end of the month.

Example: Finance can spot that the support bot, not the coding assistant, drove this week's Anthropic spend before the invoice arrives.

Can security teams review AI usage?

Yes. Concentrate gives security teams request logs, audit logs, SSO, RBAC, ZDR options, and PII redaction so they can review who is using what and what data is being sent.

Example: Security can review requests that contained PII, confirm redaction, and see who made the call.

How is Concentrate different from LiteLLM?

LiteLLM is gateway software you host and operate yourself. Concentrate is a managed service: we run model access, store request logs and spend data, and handle team controls — so you access all models through Concentrate instead of juggling separate providers across every environment. You can also point LiteLLM at Concentrate as the backend.

Example: Keep litellm.completion in your app, set api_base to Concentrate, and use one Concentrate key to access all models instead of juggling separate providers.

How is Concentrate different from OpenRouter?

OpenRouter is mainly model access. Concentrate is built for governance and enterprise needs from day one: team and organization workspaces, spend control and token allocation, SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and security review features as usage grows.

Example: Move from raw model access to org-level keys, spend limits, audit logs, and SSO without bolting on a second management layer.

Can we switch models without rewriting our stack?

Yes. Point your client at Concentrate's base URL and change the model name in the request. The same integration works across major providers — no separate provider API wiring per model.

Example: Switch a support workflow from GPT to Claude by changing the model name instead of wiring in separate provider APIs.

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