TOKEN ENGINEERING PLATFORM
Ship more work per AI dollar
Faros connects your AI coding spend to the outcomes it ships, routes each task based on evals built from your own code, and keeps usage in policy as you scale.
TOKEN ENGINEERING PLATFORM
Stop token maxxing. Start outcome maxxing.
Faros connects your AI coding spend to the outcomes it ships, routes each task based on evals built from your own code, and keeps usage in policy as you scale.
TOKEN ENGINEERING PLATFORM
Don't scale your AI bill. Scale your outcomes.
Faros connects your AI coding spend to the outcomes it ships, routes each task based on evals built from your own code, and keeps usage in policy as you scale.
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Introducing the Faros Token Engineering Platform
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AI Engineering Report Q3 2026: The Speed Trap
Skyrocketing AI spend, uneven outcomes
Every builder now runs a fleet of coding agents. Every team is improvising on best practices, picking models on instinct and paying frontier prices for work that a cheaper route ships just as well. Every organization is building a software factory, but nobody is operating it like one.
Exploding token bills
Armies of agents default to the latest, costliest models.
Model route guesswork
Model prices vary by 10x, but nobody knows which is best.
Same tools, different results
AI budgets get devoured without uniform outcomes across teams.
The complete token engineering platform
Faros orchestrates the tokens flow through your AI coding agents to minimize waste, maximize quality of output, and ensure compliance with organizational guardrails. It connects to your coding agents, harnesses, and engineering systems, and joins every session, commit, and PR into one live, reconciled model of your token flow. It mines your code history for the model routes and context that offer the best price/performance specific to your tasks. And then it enforces your approved model routes, budget controls, and compliance policies through a model router (your or ours).
Cut token waste
Stop spending on oversized models, retry loops, and work that never ships.
Increase velocity
Complete more coding tasks, with precision context and fewer prompts.
Reduce code churn
Ship agent code that provides human-grade quality and holds up in review.
Minimize risk
Keep teams on approved models and budgets, and capture full audit trails.
Data, decisions, and outcomes you can trust
Faros is a closed-loop system for AI coding work that measures what your AI engineering produces and feeds it back into the next routing decision. Unlike general purpose solutions, Faros gives you a complete picture of your AI work and its outcomes, and uses patent-pending evaluation methods to implement optimizations contextual to your environment, giving you observability, optimization, and governance, across all your AI coding efforts, in a single, scalable, trustworthy platform, with data you can rely on, and decisions that maximize outcomes in your environment.
AI engineering world model
An exhaustive graph, built on your own live data, that tracks your AI coding work with precision, so you can attribute token usage to verified outcomes with high trust.
Time machine
A proprietary evaluation engine that leverages your own code history to pinpoint model routes that produce the best code at the lowest cost, validated on your organization's real work.
Advancing those who build
"With Faros, when something changes in our productivity, we can understand why it happened and take action to help teams be more successful."


“Faros has become essential in communicating our value clearly and securing buy-in at the executive level. Today, I articulate our engineering vision and track north star metrics seamlessly.”


"The data in Faros is so good that whether my CEO looks at it or a team member looks at it, it's not an issue. I use the insights to make sure we're using our resources effectively."


Frequently asked questions
Faros helps engineering organizations ensure their AI investment is paying off. Our Token Engineering platform brings AI spend visibility, optimal model routing, and governance together so you can connect spend to shipped work, improve results, and keep usage within budget and policy.
Formerly known as Faros AI, we built our foundation in Software Engineering Intelligence. Today, we apply that deep expertise to the industry’s biggest challenge: getting more valuable engineering work from every AI dollar.
Faros helps companies address unclear AI ROI, rising costs, uneven results across teams, and difficulty enforcing AI policies. We help you answer questions like:
- Is AI helping us ship more, move faster, or improve quality?
- Why are AI coding costs rising, and where are we wasting budget?
- Why are some teams getting better results from AI than others?
- Which AI coding tools and models produce the best results for our work at the lowest cost?
- How do we enforce budgets and AI policies across developers, agents, and tools?
Faros connects spending to engineering outcomes, identifies opportunities to improve cost and quality, and puts routing and usage policies into practice across your existing tools.
Faros is for organizations investing in AI tools and looking for a clearer picture of what’s delivering value, what’s driving costs, and where to focus.
Engineering leaders use Faros to measure AI’s impact on delivery, demonstrate ROI to executives, identify wasted spending, and direct AI budgets toward work that advances company goals.
AI platform and developer experience teams use Faros to evaluate coding tools and models on their own engineering work, improve agent workflows, and investigate differences in cost and performance across teams.
Finance and AI FinOps teams use Faros to allocate AI spending, forecast budgets, and connect costs to engineering results.
Security and governance teams use Faros to enforce approved-model and usage policies and trace shipped work back to the AI activity behind it.
Faros Desktop helps developers understand what’s working, where effort gets lost, and how to improve the way they work with AI over time.
Faros connects to the tools and systems your organization already uses to build a complete picture of your AI spending, engineering activity, and outcomes. Our 100+ connectors span AI coding tools, engineering platforms, HRIS, and operational systems. Supported tools include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, AWS Bedrock, Azure DevOps, Azure Foundry, Jira, SonarQube, PagerDuty, GCP Vertex, Workday, and more. Custom connectors can extend coverage to any of your organization’s other systems.
Faros uses consumption-based pricing. Contact us to walk through your needs and get a quote for your organization. Faros Desktop is free for builders.
You can start exploring Faros at your own pace with Faros Playground, where you can see how coding agent sessions, token spend, commits and pull requests connect to outcomes. It uses illustrative data, is completely free, and ready to use in under a minute with no sales call.
When you’re ready to use your own engineering data, we’ll help you choose where to start and connect the relevant systems. Setup time depends on your stack and requirements, but most teams get set up in a few hours to a few days, depending on the scale of their organization. Book a demo to see what getting started would involve for your organization.
Faros brings together capabilities companies would otherwise have to assemble across multiple solutions.
Alternatives typically address parts of the challenge of managing AI usage and costs across an organization. Cost management tools help explain spending. AI gateways and LLM routers manage model requests. Developer productivity platforms measure engineering performance. Standalone governance tools enforce policies, but may lack the engineering context to determine which policies will improve cost and quality. AI providers offer visibility and controls within their own products.
Faros connects the full process—from understanding what AI spending produces to evaluating improvements and enforcing the resulting decisions—using your organization’s own engineering context. Measurement informs optimization, and optimization informs governance, in one continuous loop.
Stop token maxxing.
Start outcome maxxing.
Run it live in your own org. Work with us to measure what your AI coding ships, and determine which models work best on your codebase.
Featured resources

The Speed Trap: 8 takeaways from our latest AI engineering research
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