{"slug": "introducing-c1-llm-gateway-your-models-your-routing-policy", "title": "Introducing C1 LLM Gateway: Your models, your routing policy", "summary": "C1 launched C1 LLM Gateway on Day 4 of its Launch Week, a policy-controlled endpoint that routes inference across supported public, private, and customer-controlled model deployments. The gateway ties each request to a person, application, workload, or agent and selects among eligible routes based on provider, model, deployment, region, and data-handling rules, using capability, health, latency, and cost signals within that set. C1 said the product keeps provider choice out of application code, attributes usage and cost to an owner, project, or business unit, and pairs with C1 MCP Gateway to govern where inference runs and what actions an agent can take.", "body_md": "An AI application’s choice of model is also a decision about where a request goes, which provider handles it, and who pays for the work. As teams add models and providers, those decisions become harder to manage across individual application integrations.\n\nDay 4 of Launch Week introduces [C1 LLM Gateway](https://www.c1.ai/products/llm-gateway): one policy-controlled endpoint for routing inference across supported public, private, and customer-controlled model deployments.\n\nC1 LLM Gateway brings provider choice under company policy. Teams can define which routes a workload is eligible to use, select among those approved options, and retain the context needed to understand usage and cost.\n\n## Put policy into the routing decision[#](#put-policy-into-the-routing-decision)\n\nDifferent workloads have different requirements. A request involving sensitive business information may need a private deployment. Another workflow may be allowed to use an approved public provider. Even within an approved set of models, task requirements and cost can influence the right choice.\n\nC1 LLM Gateway ties requests to the person, application, workload, or agent using the endpoint. Configured rules determine eligible routes based on factors such as provider, model, deployment, region, and data-handling requirements. Within that eligible set, supported capability, health, latency, and cost signals help determine the route.\n\nFor example, a team could configure a supported workflow to use a private model endpoint when its data-handling requirements demand that path, while allowing another workflow to use an approved public provider. The routing decision follows the configured policy and available request context.\n\n## Keep provider choice outside application code[#](#keep-provider-choice-outside-application-code)\n\nChanging a model provider should not require rebuilding every application integration.\n\nWith C1 LLM Gateway, applications use one C1 endpoint across the providers and deployments supported in their configured scope. Teams can move an approved workload to another supported route while preserving the application’s gateway integration.\n\nSupported managed credential paths also help keep durable provider secrets out of application code. Teams can expand their approved routing options without embedding a separate provider credential for every route.\n\n## Make inference spend attributable[#](#make-inference-spend-attributable)\n\nA provider bill can tell you what was consumed. Understanding which team, application, or agent drove that consumption requires context.\n\nC1 LLM Gateway retains identity and workload context so usage and cost can be attributed to the responsible owner, project, or business unit. Reporting brings together usage across approved providers, models, and deployments, giving teams a shared view of where inference spend originates.\n\nRouting policy also gives teams a way to consider cost alongside workload requirements. Among eligible routes, teams can use supported selection signals to direct work to an approved model suited to the task and its price requirements.\n\n## Connect inference to your governance foundation[#](#connect-inference-to-your-governance-foundation)\n\nC1 LLM Gateway uses the C1 Platform’s identity and policy foundation to govern inference routing. C1 MCP Gateway applies that foundation to supported MCP, tool, and API actions. Together, they address distinct decisions in an agent workflow: where inference runs and what actions the agent can take.\n\nYour team owns the models and inference deployments. C1 governs the supported routes applications use to reach them.\n\nDay 4 brings that control to the model layer: an accountable caller, an approved route, and usage context teams can act on.\n\n[Book a demo](https://www.c1.ai/lp/request-demo) to explore C1 LLM Gateway for your applications and agents.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-c1-llm-gateway-your-models-your-routing-policy", "canonical_source": "https://www.c1.ai/blog/introducing-c1-llm-gateway", "published_at": "2026-10-01 07:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-01 12:47:16.153975+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-agents", "mlops", "agent-protocols", "ai-products"], "entities": ["C1", "C1 LLM Gateway", "C1 Platform", "C1 MCP Gateway"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-c1-llm-gateway-your-models-your-routing-policy", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-c1-llm-gateway-your-models-your-routing-policy.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-c1-llm-gateway-your-models-your-routing-policy.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/introducing-c1-llm-gateway-your-models-your-routing-policy.jsonld"}}