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Use managed Bedrock without bringing a provider API key

Fund a bounded wallet, activate the approved managed model, create a safe route, and stop automatically when purchased credit is gone.

For Individuals and teams that want a simple, governed model path · Updated August 9, 2026

1. Buy only the credit you choose

The billing page starts a Stripe-hosted prepaid checkout. Settled purchased credit becomes eligible for managed inference; the gateway does not expose Stripe credentials or card details.

2. Activate the approved managed provider

Onboarding or Providers can activate the current managed Bedrock catalog without a provider key. The release pipeline validates the exact model, region, catalog price, IAM scope, guardrail path, and a bounded paid canary before publication.

3. Apply a workload limit

Create the route, policy, budget, and one-time workload key. Managed requests reserve both the general wallet and the purchased-cash eligibility balance before AWS invocation. At zero eligible balance, the request stops before provider spend unless the owner has separately enabled capped automatic reload.

Put it into practice

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