A practical architecture guide for building an AI gateway KPI dashboard that joins SEO demand, product activation, routing reliability, cost, revenue, and evidence freshness.

Jul 10, 2026Flatkey Team

Cost, Billing, and Ops

AI API Prepaid Balance Management: Recharge Records, Alerts, and Finance Review

A practical cost-ops guide for controlling prepaid AI API balance with recharge records, low-balance alerts, auto-recharge rules, and finance review.

Jul 10, 2026Flatkey Team

Cost, Billing, and Ops

Per-Customer AI Usage Metering: Build Billing Evidence for Embedded AI Features

A practical cost-ops guide for turning embedded AI usage into customer-level billing evidence, from metadata to dispute packets.

Jul 10, 2026Flatkey Team

Cost, Billing, and Ops

LLM Cost Tracking by Environment: Separate Dev, Staging, Production, and Customer Traffic

A practical cost-ops guide for separating dev, staging, production, and customer AI API traffic before it reaches the invoice.

Jul 10, 2026Flatkey Team

Gateway Comparisons

AI API Gateway Evaluation Matrix: 25 Questions Before You Move Model Traffic

A 25-question AI API gateway evaluation matrix for testing routing, keys, logs, cost evidence, support, privacy, and rollback before model traffic moves.

Jul 9, 2026Flatkey Team

Gateway Comparisons

LiteLLM Proxy Operations Cost: Hidden Work Behind a Self-Hosted LLM Gateway

A practical worksheet for comparing LiteLLM proxy operations cost with managed AI API gateway ownership.

Jul 9, 2026Flatkey Team

Gateway Comparisons

OpenRouter Direct Provider Accounts vs a Gateway: When One Key Reduces Invoice Sprawl

A practical comparison of OpenRouter, direct provider accounts, and gateway operations for teams trying to reduce API key and invoice sprawl.

Jul 9, 2026Flatkey

Gateway Comparisons

AI Gateway Alternatives: Evaluation Matrix for Hosted, Self-Hosted, and Provider-Native Options

Compare AI gateway alternatives by operating model, provider access, base URL migration, billing, quotas, logs, routing, and operational ownership.

Jul 9, 2026Flatkey

Tool Integrations

CrewAI OpenAI-Compatible Router: One Key for Multi-Agent Workflows

Configure CrewAI with an OpenAI-compatible router through Flatkey, then verify base_url, model routes, tools, logs, costs, and rollback.

Jul 8, 2026Flatkey

Tool Integrations

LangGraph Multi-Model Routing: Gateway Checks for Agent Workflows

Route LangGraph agent nodes across models through Flatkey, with gateway checks for budgets, tools, retries, logs, and rollback.

Jul 8, 2026Flatkey

Tool Integrations

OpenCode OpenAI compatible provider setup: Route coding-agent models through Flatkey

Configure OpenCode with a custom OpenAI-compatible provider through Flatkey, then verify the base URL, model selection, logs, and rollback path.

Jul 8, 2026Flatkey

Tool Integrations

Windsurf OpenAI compatible API setup: Route coding-agent traffic through one key

Route OpenAI-compatible app and SDK calls from Windsurf-driven projects through Flatkey without assuming a native Windsurf provider screen.

Jul 8, 2026Flatkey

Tool Integrations

Cursor OpenAI Compatible API Setup: Base URL, Model Names, and Usage Logs

Set up a Cursor OpenAI compatible API path carefully: verify base URL support, model names, usage logs, BYOK policy, and rollback before routing traffic.

Jul 8, 2026Flatkey

Base URL and SDK Migration

Multi-Model SDK Migration: Keep OpenAI Clients for Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek

Plan a multi-model SDK migration that keeps OpenAI clients while testing Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, tools, streaming, billing, and rollback.

Jul 7, 2026Flatkey

Base URL and SDK Migration

7 Migration Tests Before Changing an AI API Base URL

A seven-step checklist for testing auth, model routing, chat completions, SDK parity, streaming, tool calling, usage, quota, and rollback before changing an AI API base URL.

Jul 7, 2026Flatkey

Base URL and SDK Migration

OpenAI-Compatible Model Names: Avoid Alias, Provider, and Version Mistakes

A practical checklist for verifying OpenAI-compatible model names, provider model IDs, Flatkey aliases, endpoint families, and version policies before migration.

Jul 7, 2026Flatkey

Base URL and SDK Migration

OpenAI-Compatible API Troubleshooting: Fix 401s, Model Names, Streaming, and Base URLs

A practical debug path for OpenAI-compatible API 401s, model-name errors, streaming/SSE failures, base URL mistakes, and billing readback.

Jul 7, 2026Flatkey

Base URL and SDK Migration

One API Key for Multiple AI Models: Migration Checks Before You Switch

Verify base URL, SDK config, model aliases, usage logs, quotas, billing proof, and rollback before switching to one key for multiple AI models.

Jul 7, 2026Big Y

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