# AI Gateway: give each team its own models, budgets and guardrails in Mission Control > Source: > Published: 2026-10-02 11:36:00.387015+00:00 [Contact us](https://telnyx.com/contact-us) [Log in](https://portal.telnyx.com) AI Gateway lets you give every team in your company inference access without sharing a master API key. In Mission Control, create a gateway per team, choose its models, set its budget and guardrails, and issue each person a scoped inference key. AI Gateway is free. You pay for the inference that runs through it, and Telnyx-hosted models run with zero data retention. A single shared API key hands every model and every budget to anyone who holds it. AI Gateway reserves cost before each request runs, so a burst of parallel calls cannot overshoot a cap, and guardrails flag or block secrets and sensitive data before a prompt ever reaches a model. Telnyx-hosted models add zero data retention, and moving a team to open-source models on GPUs Telnyx owns, including NVIDIA B300s, is a change to one list. A company might give Engineering access to every Telnyx-hosted and BYOK model with a $1,000 budget every 7 days, and block secrets in prompts so nobody pastes a credential into a model. Its Support team could use Telnyx-hosted open-source models only, with any response that contains an IBAN or a card number blocked before it comes back. Teams building AI into their own product can also cap each of their customers. Pass the customer's ID with each request, then set an end-user budget for that ID. `https://llm.telnyx.com/v1` with that key. **Learn more** in the [AI Gateway docs](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference/ai-gateway) or the [API quickstart](https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference/ai-gateway/quickstart).