# Policy & Budget Routing

> Enforce spend policies before a request hits a paid provider. Route by cost, quality and latency; block or throttle at budget.

Source: https://tokenomy.ai/features/policy-budget-routing
Last updated: 2026-09-09
Publisher: Tokenomy — FinOps for AI
License: free to quote with attribution and a link to the source URL.

Governance for the token economy. Enforce policies at the proxy — route by cost, quality and latency; block or throttle at budget with HTTP 402.

## What it does

Governance for the token economy. Enforce policies at the proxy — route by cost, quality and latency; block or throttle at budget with HTTP 402.

- Per-workspace, per-customer and per-agent budgets
- Quality and latency thresholds for routing decisions
- Slack and email alerts on approach and breach
- Full audit trail

## Part of the runtime rails

This feature is part of Tokenomy's runtime rails for the token economy — the metering proxy, smart router, budget guard, unified cost graph and MCP server your LLM traffic flows through.

## Related pages

- [All platform features](https://tokenomy.ai/features)
- [Why FinOps for AI](https://tokenomy.ai/finops-for-ai)
- [Pricing](https://tokenomy.ai/pricing)
- [Trust & Security](https://tokenomy.ai/trust)