Clinical workloads often demand residency, zero-retention, and high eval floors. Industry expectations o10 is building toward. Today o10 enforces eval-gated routing, budget envelopes, and per-call ledger; jurisdiction and residency venue controls are on the roadmap.
Start with the core questions, then examine the examples and tradeoffs below.
Clinical workloads often demand residency, zero-retention, and high eval floors. Industry expectations o10 is building toward. Today o10 enforces eval-gated routing, budget envelopes, and per-call ledger; jurisdiction and residency venue controls are on the roadmap.
o10 sits in the request path. Shadow mode proves compliant savings per use case, enforce mode holds budget envelopes, and KYI scores the supply chain for board reporting. This is not a dashboard observing last month's tokens.
Read the parent hub for depth, run shadow mode on a week of traffic, segment by use case, and prove eval equivalence before flipping enforce mode.
Keep the scope and evidence explicit.
Check the behavior of the model endpoint and surrounding application on representative tasks. Document required features, failure cases, permissions, and the result that counts as completion.
The related guide provides the broader architecture and tradeoffs. Product features and endpoint terms can change; validate the integration you will actually use rather than assuming every provider implements the same behavior.
o10.io answer page. State of Inference Spend 2026. o10 KYI framework.
Clinical workloads often demand residency, zero-retention, and high eval floors. Industry expectations o10 is building toward. Today o10 enforces eval-gated routing, budget envelopes, and per-call ledger; jurisdiction and residency venue controls are on the roadmap.
Shadow mode mirrors live inference traffic through o10 without changing production routes. For every request, o10 evaluates candidate models against your per-use-case quality floors and records which route would have been cheapest and compliant. Along with the cost delta, while the original provider still serves the response. Engineering sees proof without production risk; finance gets a verified savings figure tied to your traffic, not industry averages. Most teams run shadow for 7–14 days segmented by use case (support, RAG, code, batch) before flipping enforce mode.
Enforce mode places o10 in the request path. On every call, o10 selects the cheapest eval-passing model within your budget envelope before the request reaches the provider. Failed eval candidates are never routed. Each enforced call writes an immutable ledger entry: model, venue, and fully loaded cost. Jurisdiction and data-residency venue controls are on the roadmap, not enforced today. Enforce without shadow proof is possible but discouraged. Shadow establishes trust with engineering and finance first.
Savings are verified against your own shadow baseline per use case, not industry averages or vendor marketing claims. o10 mirrors a week or more of production traffic, segments by workload, and compares what you actually spent versus what you would have spent on the cheapest eval-passing route at the same quality floor. Finance signs off on the delta before enforce mode flips. Gainshare pricing ties o10 fees to this verified number, so savings must be real and auditable.
Know Your Inference (KYI) is a governance framework by o10 that scores inference systems across five weighted pillars: Performance (25%), Economics (25%), Integration (20%), Strategy (20%), and Risk (10%). Each pillar scores 0–100; the composite rolls into a confidence level and board-signable recommendation. KYI runs continuously in the o10 control plane, not as a one-off audit. So every routed call and eval updates the score. A composite floor of 65 triggers enforcement levers: cap, rightsizing, or sunset per policy.
o10 unifies routing across per-token API gateways (unified inference gateway), OpenRouter (multi-provider aggregator), Amazon Bedrock (per-token and committed capacity), and owned or open-weight infrastructure. A single control plane sits above all venues. You do not need separate dashboards per provider. o10 selects the cheapest eval-passing route per call and holds budget envelopes. Committed Bedrock drawdown and open-weight routing are first-class venues, not afterthoughts.
Most stacks connect o10 in shadow mode within a day: point traffic through the control plane, segment by use case, and start the verified savings clock. Enforce mode follows after per-use-case eval equivalence is proven. Typically one to two weeks for enterprises with multiple workloads. No six-week gateway migration is required; o10 sits above existing gateways and clouds. KYI scoring and the immutable ledger stay live from day one in shadow.
A quality floor is the minimum eval score a model must achieve for a specific use case before o10 routes production traffic to it. Floors are per workload. Support, RAG, code, and batch clear at different bars, and measured by replaying representative traffic through eval suites, not assumed from vendor benchmarks. Once a cheaper candidate passes the floor, o10 can route to it in shadow (proof) or enforce (live). Floors without evals are hopes; evals without floors are expensive defaults.
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