Policy Enforcement

Enforce guardrails without slowing teams down

Real-time policy enforcement at the gateway level. Define organizational rules, model access controls, and compliance frameworks that automatically protect every AI interaction.

< 15ms

Policy evaluation

10K+

Rules per org

100%

Auditable decisions

How It Works

Every request evaluated against your rules.

Request received

User request hits the gateway with organization context, tags, and metadata.

Policy matching

Evaluate against org, team, and environment-specific rules with inheritance.

Action and audit

Allow, block, modify, or escalate. Every decision logged for compliance.

Policy Types

Eight categories of enforceable rules.

Type	Scope	Action
Model Access	Role, team, environment	Allow / Block
Rate Limiting	User, team, organization	Throttle
Cost Budgets	Per-day, per-user caps	Block / Notify
Content Filtering	Keywords, patterns, topics	Block / Redact
PII Redaction	14 data types	Mask / Block
Approval Required	High-cost, sensitive models	Escalate
Provider Failover	Circuit breaker rules	Reroute
Compliance	SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI	Enforce / Log

Policy Actions

Five enforcement actions with full audit logging.

Action	Behavior	Audit
allow	Request proceeds to LLM provider	Logged
block	Request rejected with reason	Logged + Alert
modify	Content redacted or filtered	Logged
throttle	Rate limited per policy window	Logged
escalate	Routed for human approval	Logged + Notify

What's included

Access control, compliance, and audit — built in

Every request is evaluated against your organizational policies with zero configuration overhead.

Model access by role & environment

Per-user and per-team rate limits

Cost budgets and spending controls

Content filtering & topic blocking

PII detection and redaction rules

Approval workflows for sensitive ops

Provider failover and retry logic

SOC 2 / GDPR / HIPAA / PCI support

Multi-tenant with inheritance

Real-time policy updates (zero downtime)

Environment-specific overrides

Full audit trail for compliance

Policy Definition

Define rules via API or dashboard with environment scoping.

{
  "policy_name": "dev_team_restrictions",
  "environment": "development",
  "rules": [
    {
      "type": "model_access",
      "models": ["gpt-4o-mini", "claude-3-haiku"],
      "max_cost_per_day": 100.00
    },
    {
      "type": "content_filter",
      "patterns": ["password", "api_key"],
      "action": "block"
    }
  ]
}

Audit Response

Every decision includes policy context and rationale.

{
  "decision": "block",
  "policy": "dev_team_restrictions",
  "rule": "content_filter",
  "reason": "Pattern matched: api_key",
  "user": "dev@acme.com",
  "environment": "development",
  "timestamp": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}

Multi-Tenant Scoping

Organization, team, and environment-level policies with inheritance and overrides.

100% Auditable

Every policy decision logged with full context, rationale, and compliance metadata.

Real-Time Updates

Policy changes apply instantly across all proxies with zero downtime or restarts.

Start enforcing your AI policies

Policy enforcement included with every plan. No extra cost.

Get started free Read the docs