Put a local control plane between AI tools and runaway spend.
Relay meters, routes, and caps AI provider calls from your machine. Keep your credentials and usage ledger local while giving every coding tool the same enforceable budget boundary.
Core implemented; preparing for first release.
Control plane
One boundary for every model call.
Meter every call
Normalize token usage and cost into a local ledger so spend is inspectable before it becomes a surprise.
Enforce hard caps
Refuse requests before provider dispatch when a configured budget would be exceeded.
Route deliberately
Use aliases and provider-aware routing to choose the right model without coupling tools to one vendor.
Privacy
Local means local.
Environment-based credentials
Relay stores provider environment-variable names in local configuration and reads their values only when an adapter needs them. Secret values are never written to Relay's configuration or ledger.
No hosted account
Usage records and policy stay on your machine. Relay requires no account and sends no product telemetry to Korvo.
Roadmap
Shipping the auditable core first.
Local metering, cap refusal, provider routing, ledger persistence, and mock provider conformance coverage.
Official model and price verification, reconciliation workflows, expanded provider error conformance, and credential-gated smoke testing.
Team visibility and organization-wide policy controls are in development with design partners.
Enterprise
Free for developers. Serious about team spend.
Free, forever
- Fully open source
- Full metering, hard caps, provider routing
- Local-first: your keys, your ledger, your machine
- No telemetry, no account required
Enterprise & Teams
Running AI coding tools across a team? We help engineering organizations audit, cap, and cut AI API spend — and we're building Relay's team tier with design partners.
- AI spend audits and optimization engagements
- Org-wide caps and visibility (in development)
- Design-partner access to the commercial roadmap
Copilot boundary
Relay governs the call. Your coding tool does the work.
Relay is not another coding agent and does not replace your editor or copilot. It is the local, provider-neutral boundary that meters each request, applies policy, and records the result before handing control back to the tool you already use.