Inference Efficiency

Rightsize your LLM inference stack.
Every call. Automatically.

A gateway, a shadow cache, and an eval lab that prove every LLM optimization against your own traffic — before you ship it.

Illustration: inference calls from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini providers flow through a single DevZero gateway, which routes each call to one of three lanes — cache hit, direct forward, or cheaper-model swap — while a running dollar total ticks in the footer.
Inference Gateway · live
OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
CACHE
DIRECT
SWAP
Calls
56,732
Saved
$12,481
Hit Rate
38.6%

The Problem

Your AI stack got expensive. Fast.

Five inference APIs. Three providers. Forty developers shipping prompts their own way. Spend is scattered across five dashboards, nobody owns the bill, and the CFO wants an answer by Friday. You don't have a visibility problem — you have a coordination problem. And observability alone won't fix it.

Observe

See every call, session, and prompt cluster — across every provider, in one metering surface.

Simulate

Dry-run caching and model swaps against your own traffic. Measure hit rates and quality deltas before you commit.

Automate

Roll out the winning change. Keep quality honest as it runs with live divergence tracking.

Unified Gateway

One gateway. Every provider. Zero migration.

DevZero speaks the OpenAI SDK — so every app already talking to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, or Azure OpenAI is instantly metered, traced, and optimizable. No code rewrite. No proxy gymnastics. One base URL change and your efficiency story starts.

  • Self-hosted gateway — your API keys never leave your infrastructure.
  • Captures cost, latency, retries, tool-call %, and finish reason per call.
  • Works with streaming, function calling, and vision endpoints.
  • Tags every call with team, product, and workflow automatically.
Illustration: six inference providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Mistral — fan into a single DevZero metering surface.
Any SDK. Any provider.OpenAI-SDK compatible
OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
AWS Bedrock
Azure OpenAI
Mistral
Illustration: a single agent session composed of seven spans — three model calls and four tool calls — totaling 2 minutes 14 seconds and $0.0421 in spend, visualized as a horizontal Gantt timeline.
session · c7aa2a94-8c6
2m 14s
gpt-5.4 · plan
claude-opus-4-6 · retrieve
tool: search
tool: fetch
claude-sonnet-4-6 · reason
gpt-4.1-mini · finalize
tool: write
Calls
7
Tokens
12.4k
Retries
1
Spend
$0.0421

Session-Level Cost

Cost per call isn't the unit. Cost per agent run is.

Agents make dozens of calls to finish one task. DevZero rolls every call in a session into one trace — tokens, retries, tool calls, total dollars — so you see what a workflow costs, not just what a prompt costs. The first place you'll notice the runaway retry loop draining your budget.

Prompt Clusters

89 workloads, not 30,000 calls.

DevZero groups your traffic by what it actually does — customer support, SQL generation, classifier, summarizer — so cost conversations happen at the workflow level, not the request level. Finally a vocabulary your product team recognizes.

Each cluster is a semantic neighborhood. Each dot is one of your real prompts. We use this shape everywhere else on this page — recommendations, routing, evals.

Illustration: sixty-four scattered prompt points converge into six semantic clusters labeled Customer support, SQL generation, Classification, Summarization, Code explain, and Translation.
Prompt Similarity Clusters89 clusters detected

Shadow Cache

Prove the savings before you flip the switch.

Turning on semantic caching is scary — you don't know the hit rate, you don't know the quality impact. Shadow Cache runs in dry-run mode next to production: it hashes every prompt, counts would-be hits across similarity bands, and measures what you would've saved. Ship caching the day the numbers hold up.

Illustration: shadow cache runs alongside production traffic in dry-run mode. Out of 56,732 requests, 38.6% would hit the cache at the 90–100% similarity band, translating to $12,481 in simulated savings — measured before any caching is enabled.
Shadow Cache · dry-run
Not yet serving traffic
Production · live56,732 req
Every request forwarded to upstream provider.
Shadow · dry-run
21,899 would-be hits$12,481 saved
90–100%
21,899 req
80–90%
7,035 req
70–80%
3,461 req
60–70%
1,588 req
< 60%
22,749 req
Flip the switch when the numbers hold up. No user-facing change, no code deploy — just a threshold.

Zero risk

Shadow traffic never serves a response. Production sees no change until you flip the threshold.

Similarity bands

Tune aggressiveness post-hoc. See exactly how many requests would hit at 90%+ vs 80%+ vs 70%+.

Dollar-anchored

Every band shows would-be savings in dollars, not just hit counts. The CFO conversation writes itself.

See what shadow caching saves on your traffic

Eval Lab

Swap models with evidence, not vibes.

Pick a workload. Pick the models you want to compare. Click run. DevZero replays your real traffic through every candidate and plots quality-vs-cost, so you can say “Haiku is good enough here” with a number behind it — not a gut call.

  • 20+ candidate models across Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini.
  • Runs against your traffic, not a benchmark.
  • Quality score, cost per 1M tokens, latency — one view.
Quality-vs-cost scatter for eight candidate models on a customer-support workload. Each bubble is a model; size reflects latency; position reflects cost (x) and quality (y). Claude Haiku 4.5 is highlighted as the best efficient swap — hover any bubble to see details.
Eval Lab · customer-support · 50 samples
Swap saves 93%
Cheaper →Higher quality →
claude-haiku-4-5Anthropic Recommended swap
Quality 72%·Cost $2.80/1M·p50 410ms

Ready to swap models with evidence?

Cache Quality

Cache hits without quality drift.

Every cached response is scored for semantic divergence against a live baseline. If a model's cached outputs start to diverge, the dashboard tells you which model, which band, and how bad — before users notice, before the CFO asks.

Illustration: cache quality scored by semantic divergence per model. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is most stable at 8.2% divergence; Gemini 2.5 Flash is the weakest at 61.9%.
Cache Quality · divergence by modelWatch: flash
claude-sonnet-4-68.2%
gpt-5.4-2026-03-0514.5%
gemini-2.5-pro22.1%
claude-haiku-4-538.6%
gemini-2.5-flash61.9%
Baseline: live responses from the same model, same prompt.last 24h

Attribution

Give the CFO a bill that makes sense.

Every call is tagged by team, product, and business unit automatically — so spend rolls up the way your org chart does. Chargeback, showback, or just a monthly review that doesn't need a spreadsheet.

Illustration: monthly AI spend attributed to four departments. Engineering tops the list at $14,218, followed by Data Science at $8,903, Product at $4,211, and Support at $1,914.
Departments · this monthTotal · $29,246
Engineering$14,218
Data Science$8,903
Product$4,211
Support$1,914

Recommendations

Savings that come with a price tag.

Every recommendation — TTL tweaks, model swaps, prompt consolidations — arrives with a dollar amount and a quality forecast. Accept the ones that make sense. Skip the ones that don't. No hand-waving.

Illustration: three recommendations — a model swap saving $4,820 monthly, a TTL increase saving $1,205 monthly, and enabling the shadow cache in production saving $12,481 monthly.
Model swapcustomer-support
claude-opus-4-6claude-haiku-4-5
96% retained
$4,820 / mo
Increase TTLSQL-generation
/v1/messages · ttl 5m/v1/messages · ttl 1h
divergence < 4%
$1,205 / mo
Enable cacheclassifier
shadow modeproduction
38.6% hit rate sustained
$12,481 / mo
Accept with one click. Each action is reversible.

Numbers the CFO Cares About

One dashboard. One conversation.

Based on a typical mid-stage deployment after 30 days.

$0

Gross 30-day spend

$0

Net after cache

0.0%

Cache hit rate

0.0×

Cache ROI

0ms

p50 added latency

Why DevZero

We've been rightsizing cloud bills live for years.

Kubernetes clusters run idle. GPUs run cold. Teams ship infrastructure they never use. DevZero's live-rightsizing engine has been cutting those bills automatically — without restarts, without surprises — since day one. This is that engine, pointed at every token you ship.

Frequently asked Questions

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