The Governance Gap
Enterprise-grade AI governance — syscall-level enforcement, cryptographic audit trails, immutable ledgers — requires kernel access, container orchestration, and dedicated infrastructure engineering. Most SMB DevSecOps teams have none of these resources. The result is a governance gap: organizations that cannot deploy Ring-0 enforcement operate with no enforcement at all.
Tier 02 closes this gap without Kubernetes.
One Environment Variable
The Vantio Managed Edge Proxy deploys as a cloud-hosted HTTPS intermediary on your provisioned proxy-[id].edge.vantio.ai endpoint. Update one environment variable in your AI provider client:
# OpenAI
OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://proxy-abc123.edge.vantio.ai/v1
# Anthropic
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://proxy-abc123.edge.vantio.aiYour application code is unchanged. Every LLM API call now passes through the proxy. No SDK integration. No library changes. No deployment pipeline modifications.
What the Proxy Enforces
- HTTPS Interception: Full request and response inspection, provider-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, and Mistral.
- Active Policy Enforcement: Block, redact, or flag requests based on configurable governance rules. Rate limiting and budget caps enforced at the network layer.
- 30-Day WORM Retention: Every intercept committed to Google Cloud Spanner with TrueTime timestamps. Records cannot be modified or deleted. Audit-ready for SOC 2, GDPR Article 30, and SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure.
- 5–25ms Latency: Proxy nodes deployed in the same GCP regions as major AI provider endpoints. Latency overhead is sub-perceptible for interactive workloads.
No container orchestration. No cluster. No infrastructure team required.
Pricing
Tier 02 is available via Stripe self-serve at $499/month per tenant, with no per-request fees up to 10M tokens/day. Enterprise volume pricing and private proxy deployment are available on request.
[ ARCHITECTURE PREVIEW / EARLY ACCESS ] — Tier 02 Managed Edge Proxy is in private beta. Request access at enterprise@vantio.ai.