# o10.io
> The control plane for inference spend.

o10 routes every AI inference call to the cheapest model that clears your quality floor — across Vercel AI Gateway, OpenRouter, Amazon Bedrock, and owned capacity. Shadow mode, evals, and Know Your Inference (KYI) governance.

## Canonical definitions

- **AI inference**: Runtime execution of trained models on live inputs; dominates enterprise AI operational spend after deployment.
- **AI tokens**: Units LLMs use to meter prompt and completion text for billing per million tokens — not cryptocurrency.
- **LLM routing**: Policy-driven selection of model and venue per request based on cost, eval floor, and data residency.
- **AI supply chain**: End-to-end path from sourcing inference capacity through evals, enforcement, KYI governance, to board assurance.
- **Know Your Inference (KYI)**: Framework by Shen Pandi scoring inference on performance, economics, integration, strategy, and risk.

## Primary research

- State of Inference Spend 2026: https://o10.io/research/state-of-inference-spend-2026
- KYI Whitepaper: https://o10.io/research/kyi-whitepaper

## Hubs

- AI: https://o10.io/ai
- AI inference: https://o10.io/ai-inference
- AI tokens: https://o10.io/tokens
- AI models: https://o10.io/ai-models
- LLM routing: https://o10.io/routing
- AI supply chain: https://o10.io/ai-supply-chain
- Know Your Inference: https://o10.io/kyi
- Inference spend: https://o10.io/inference-spend
- AI FinOps: https://o10.io/ai-finops
- Governance: https://o10.io/governance

## Content indexes

- Direct answers (200 prompts): https://o10.io/answers
- Glossary (500 terms): https://o10.io/glossary
- Model catalog: https://o10.io/models
- Pricing matrix: https://o10.io/pricing
- Savings matrix: https://o10.io/savings
- Routing matrix: https://o10.io/routing-matrix
- Quick answers: https://o10.io/p
- Workloads matrix: https://o10.io/workloads
- Topics cross-index: https://o10.io/topics

## Optional

- Full excerpts for LLM ingestion: https://o10.io/llms-full.txt
- Sitemap: https://o10.io/sitemap-index.xml