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AI application teams that need to identify waste from prompts, retries, model routing, and workflows to reduce token spending
About ZenLLM
ZenLLM is an AI cost optimization platform for engineering teams running LLM applications in production. It connects provider invoices to the application behavior behind them, showing which prompts, workflows, models, customers, retries, and request paths are driving spend. Teams send request-level telemetry through the ZenLLM SDK and can attach business context such as workflow, owner, customer, team, or product feature without storing prompt or response content. It monitors token usage, model selection, latency, errors, retries, and cost, then surfaces the waste patterns hidden by aggregate provider dashboards. It detects context accumulation when conversations or agents resend growing histories, premium-model overuse on low-risk work, retry loops that repeat expensive context, stale system prompts, routing mistakes, anomalies, and weak cost ownership.
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Starting Price:
$49 per month
Free Version:
Free Version available.
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ZenLLM
United States
www.zenllm.io
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