This platform helps developers and organizations safely use large language models by inspecting API requests for compliance with defined policies. The system audits requests, blocking those that violate policies and allowing compliant ones to proceed, ensuring sensitive information is protected.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Organizations using large language models (LLMs) via APIs lack sufficient control and visibility, creating risks related to security, compliance, cost overruns, and prompt injection attacks. Existing OpenAI APIs do not offer the granular policy enforcement and real-time monitoring needed for enterprise-grade deployments.
Solution
Usage Panda provides a "Prompt Application Firewall" that acts as a proxy between clients and OpenAI APIs, enabling secure and observable LLM usage. The platform allows users to define and enforce policies for each API request, ensuring compliance, managing costs, and preventing malicious activity. Usage Panda evaluates requests against defined policies before they are sent to OpenAI, blocking those that violate the policies and allowing compliant ones to proceed. The system also collects observability metrics, such as latency and error rate, for application monitoring purposes.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes developers and organizations that utilize OpenAI's LLM APIs and require enhanced security, compliance, and cost management controls.
Features
- Policy enforcement: Evaluates security policies for requests before they're sent to OpenAI.
- Cost management: Sets maximum token limits and blocks requests exceeding cost thresholds.
- Prompt monitoring: Monitors, redacts, and blocks malicious attempts to alter or reveal system prompts.
- Debug logging: Opt-in logging of complete requests, parameters, and responses.
- Granular controls: Creates unlimited connections, each with custom policies and limits.
- Dashboards & metrics: Visualizes usage in detail with custom charts.
- Billing alerts: Notifies via email or Slack before reaching usage limits or billing thresholds.
- User tracking: Associates costs and policy violations to end users and implements per-user rate limits.
- Real-time data: Logs requests in real-time.
- Secure connection: OpenAI API keys are never saved or logged, and prompt logs are opt-in.