Concentrate AI Launches Free LLM Gateway as Companies Race to Control AI Spend

Concentrate AI today launched out of stealth with the LLM gateway built for companies running AI in production. The platform gives teams one API to access every major frontier and open-source large language model with enterprise-grade security, governance, compliance, and spend controls built in by default and free. It arrives as AI legislation reaches every state in the country and as companies shift from AI experimentation to AI as core infrastructure.

The launch comes as the AI gateway and token routing market is heating up. Companies are no longer just asking how to use more AI. They are asking how to control it: which models to use, where traffic should route, how much each team is spending, what happens when providers go down, and how to keep sensitive data out of model streams. The model landscape is fragmenting faster than any team can track: new models, providers, and price-performance tradeoffs every week. Using more than one model once meant juggling separate contracts, SDKs, and integrations, with changes that could take weeks. Concentrate makes it easy: instant access to models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Kimi, and more through one integration, with the ability to switch by changing a single line of code.

"Everything we build comes down to giving developers back their two most precious resources — time and money," said Ari Jacoby, co-founder and CEO. "The model landscape is fragmented. New models launch every week, prices keep changing, and teams need a safer, simpler way to choose the right model for the job." 

At the center of the launch is an inversion of how enterprise AI controls have always been sold. The full stack (single sign-on, role-based access controls, audit logging, sensitive-data guardrails, and zero data retention) is free and on by default for every customer, from two engineers to two thousand. No enterprise sales cycle required.

Compliance is a core driver. In 2025, all 50 states introduced AI legislation for the first time, with 1,208 bills introduced and 145 enacted. Trackers count more than 2,000 AI bills across the country in 2026. Just as state privacy laws made data compliance non-negotiable for companies of every size, AI is following the same path but faster. Concentrate gives companies the controls they need to govern AI requests, protect sensitive data, and maintain an audit trail from day one.

Cost gets the same treatment. In the early wave of AI adoption, "tokenmaxxing" became a badge of progress: more usage meant more experimentation. But as AI moves into production, spend is a budget line item that finance, engineering, and security teams all need to understand. Concentrate gives companies one real-time view of AI usage across teams, users, models, providers, and applications with SMS and email alerts the moment spend looks anomalous, whether from a successful product launch, a misconfigured workflow, or a developer accidentally leaving a loop running overnight.

"Every dollar spent on AI should have a purpose," said Jacoby. "The companies that win won't just be the ones spending the most on tokens. They'll be the ones that know where that spend is going, what it is producing, and how to control it."

The platform is also built for production reliability. Concentrate routes across multiple providers and clouds, so if one endpoint fails, traffic automatically falls back to another. Customers can access Anthropic models through multiple providers, for example, reducing dependence on any single endpoint.

"Concentrate is for the in-production systems businesses depend on, not just experiments," said Todd Lieberman, co-founder and CTO. "When one AI provider goes down, we automatically route to another so our customers stay up, even when their providers don't."

Concentrate is free, with tokens billed at cost and no platform markup. The company recently raised more than $5 million in pre-seed funding led by True Ventures and RRE Ventures to expand the core platform, improve the developer experience, and support companies deploying AI at scale. Premium enterprise tiers, including extended logging, SLAs, and dedicated support, are available for teams that need them.

About Concentrate AI

Concentrate AI is the operating layer for enterprise AI — a fully managed LLM gateway giving organizations of any size unified access to every major model through one API, with security, governance, compliance, spend controls, and production reliability built in by default. By making those controls free and on by default, Concentrate lets every company run AI responsibly and at scale, without platform markups or vendor lock-in. Learn more at concentrate.ai.

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