Usage Panda Review: Our Insider Tips and Verdict [2023]

Usage Panda provides complete visibility into OpenAI API usage, costs, and requests with real-time logging and up to one year of history.

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Usage Panda Review: Our Insider Tips and Verdict [2023]

Usage Panda provides complete visibility into OpenAI API usage, costs, and requests with real-time logging and up to one year of history.
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Added: Jun 13, 2023

What does Usage Panda do?

Usage Panda is a security and observability platform for OpenAI APIs, offering users complete visibility into costs and usage of AI services.
With Usage Panda, users can enforce policies such as max token limit, max character limit, blocking certain categories of PII, and rate limiting requests.
Additionally, Usage Panda logs requests in real-time, with no five-minute delays before it hits the usage dashboard.
According to the website, the software also generates reports including timestamps, token usage, costs, and completion model types with up to one year of history.
Usage Panda is free for up to 500 OpenAI API requests/month, and paid plans are coming soon.
It sets itself apart from other software competitors by offering a self-hosted proxy, as well as currency conversions for reports.

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Features

  • Provides security and observability for OpenAI APIs, ensuring continuous visibility into costs and usage of AI services.
  • Logs requests in real-time, with no five-minute delays before it hits the usage dashboard.
  • OpenAI API key is never stored or logged, and prompt logs are opt-in.
  • Generates reports including timestamps, token usage, costs, and completion model types with up to one year of history.
  • Enables enforcement of max token limit, max character limit, blocking certain categories of PII, rate limiting requests, monitoring for certain moderation flags, and more.

Use-Cases

  • Data Scientists can use Usage Panda to monitor the costs and usage of OpenAI APIs, ensuring they have continuous visibility into their AI services.
  • IT Managers can use Usage Panda to enforce policies, such as max token limits and max character limits, as well as rate limit requests and block requests that will exceed a cost threshold.
  • Security Professionals can use Usage Panda to block certain categories of PII from being sent to OpenAI, as well as monitor for certain moderation flags.

Our Insider Tips

Pros

  • OpenAI API key is never stored or logged, providing enhanced security.
  • Generates reports with up to one year of history, enabling long-term usage monitoring.
  • Enforces policies such as max token limits, max character limits, rate limiting, and more, to ensure compliance.

Cons

  • No self-hosted proxy option yet.
  • Free plan limited to 500 OpenAI API requests/month.

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Our Verdict on Usage Panda

Usage Panda Pricing -

$0.00/mo

Or purchase Yearly with 0% discount

This tool comes with a generous free tier. AllThingsAI always recommends trying before you buy

Usage Panda is suitable for enterprise usage. Get in touch with the team for higher usage limits, better security options and other enterprise-grade features

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