AI Coding costs out of control? Understanding model call governance from AI Gateway

Core Issues

How do you manage keys, routing, quotas, failures, and call auditing uniformly when teams use multiple models and coding agents at the same time?

Article structure

1. Why client configuration cannot assume team governance
2. Core responsibilities and non-responsibilities of AI Gateway
3. Model routing, downgrading, current limiting and caching
4. Identity, permissions, quotas and auditing
5. Evolution from small team to platform construction

Completion criteria

Readers will be able to design a minimal gateway governance approach and describe the specific risks each control addresses.