Security and Observability for OpenAI

A "Prompt Application Firewall" for Safe LLM Usage

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Layer enterprise-level security features over your OpenAI usage.

OpenAI LLM APIs are incredibly powerful, but they lack the granular control and visibility that enterprises expect. Usage Panda fixes that.

Policy Enforcement

Usage Panda evaluates security policies for requests before they're sent to OpenAI.

Cost Management

Avoid surprise bills by only allowing requests that fall below a cost threshold.

Debug Logging

Opt-in to log the complete request, parameters, and response for every request made to OpenAI.

Granular Controls

Create an unlimited number of connections, each with their own custom policies and limits.

Prompt Monitoring

Monitor, redact, and block malicious attempts to alter or reveal system prompts.

Dashboards & Metrics

Explore usage in granular detail using Usage Panda's visualization tools and custom charts.

Billing Alerts

Get notified via email or Slack before reaching a usage limit or billing threshold.

User Tracking

Associate costs and policy violations back to end application users and implement per-user rate limits.

Real-Time Data

Usage Panda logs requests in real-time. No five-minute delays before it hits your usage dashboard.

Secure Connection

Your OpenAI API key is never saved or logged and prompt logs are opt-in. A self-hosted proxy is coming soon.

Currency Support

View your usage in the currency that makes sense to you. 180+ currencies supported.

Affordable

Usage Panda's usage model starts at $0 and scales with developer-friendly pricing.

Prompt Application Firewall

Usage Panda lets you define policies and guardrails for how your organization uses OpenAI.

  • Cost Management: set the maximum tokens that can be used
  • Moderation: alerts for spikes in moderation events
  • Compliance: evaluate requests for PII and sensitive info
  • Security: rate limits, usage limits, allowed models, and more
  • Operations: provision OpenAI API access without distributing OpenAI API keys
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FAQ

Questions about Usage Panda?

If your question isn't answered below, reach out at hello@usagepanda.com.

Usage Panda is a security and observability platform for OpenAI that sits between clients and OpenAI's APIs, either as a hosted cloud service or a self-hosted proxy. Usage Panda inspects each request for adherence to a defined policy, before it is sent to OpenAI. Usage Panda also collects observability metrics, such as latency and error rate, for application monitoring purposes.
Yes! Usage Panda never stores or logs your OpenAI API key. The contents of your prompts and completion responses are only logged if you explicitly opt-in. You can read more about security here.
Reports include timestamps, token usage, costs, and completion model types with up to one year of history. Trend reports help visualize your most popular models, changes in daily activity, and more. Currency conversions are also supported.
Usage Panda is completely free, for up to 500 OpenAI API requests/month. Usage Panda's paid plans are coming soon and include 5,000 monthly API requests and 6 months of retention. We are planning an enterprise plan if you need more requests, or longer retention, so please get in touch.
Yes, but not to a noticeable degree. Because Usage Panda is intercepting and inspecting each request, there is a slight added latency (100 - 300ms) depending on the features being used (for example, PII inspection adds more latency than simple max_token checks). Usage Panda operates behind a global CDN with over 450 global points of presence.
With Usage Panda enabled, you can enforce a max token limit and max character limit, block certain categories of PII from being sent to OpenAI, rate limit requests, block requests that will exceed a cost threshold, monitor for certain moderation flags, and more.
Pricing

Usage Panda Pricing

All plans come with access to all Usage Panda features.
Pricing is based on request count.

FREE

$0/month

  • Up to 500 OpenAI API Requests
  • Cloud-Hosted Proxy
  • 3 Months of Usage Retention
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PRO

Coming Soon

  • Up to 5,000 OpenAI API Requests
  • Cloud-Hosted Proxy
  • 6 Months of Usage Retention
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ENTERPRISE

Coming Soon

  • Unlimited OpenAI API Requests
  • Self-Hosted Proxy
  • 1 Year of Usage Retention
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