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Google Cloud Apigee (AI gateway) + Vertex AI controls

Apigee LLM token policies, semantic cache and Model Armor in front of models; Vertex/Gemini request labels flow into Cloud Billing.

GatewayVendor: Google CloudLast checked 2026-10-20Not vendor-verified
Hard budgets (team / key / user) (scored)partial
LLMTokenQuota: token quotas per minute/hour/day/week/month (HTTP 429); tokens, not currency
Rate & spend limits (scored)yes
Cost attribution / chargeback tags (scored)yes
Custom labels on Gemini API calls are forwarded to Cloud Billing and BigQuery export
FOCUS export (scored)partial version: 1.2 preview (GCP bill)
Cloud Billing FOCUS BigQuery export (preview) covers the Google Cloud bill; Apigee per-consumer token data is not in it
EU data residency option (scored)unknown
EU regions not verified for this page
Public pricing (scored)yes
Open sourceno
Managed Google Cloud service
HostingSaaS
Managed Apigee (hybrid option not reviewed here)
Supported providers / modelsunknown
Apigee can front any HTTP model API; no count published
Cachingyes
Semantic cache in the reference AI gateway
Pricing modelPay-as-you-go per call + environment fee, or subscription
Public price pointsExtensible proxy (needed for LLM token policies): $100/1M calls up to 50M, $80 50–500M, $64 above; Intermediate environment $1,460/mo/region; Standard proxy $20/1M

Not verified yet: EU data residency option, Supported providers / models. "unknown" means we could not confirm it in public sources. Vendors can send evidence to update a cell; see get verified. Verification never changes the scoring rules. Note: Revolgy, the founder's company, is a Google Cloud partner. This profile uses the same rubric as all others.