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Flowstate Helm

Know what AI costs. See what you get back.

Understand spending, share budgets and connect AI use to the work it supports.

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Buy tokens, rent GPUs, or own the rack?

Open-weight models are now good enough to make self-hosting a financial question rather than a capability one. I modelled four options, an office rack, colocation, rented GPUs and per-token APIs, to find where each one actually wins. The answer turns on utilisation, and it isn't the one the internet keeps giving.

Turn a $3m AI bill into $1.9m

Most teams overpay for AI twice without noticing: they run everything through the default flagship model, and they buy the tokens on a metered plan they can't see into. An intelligent proxy fixes both. Here is the maths, a calculator you can drag, and where Flowstate fits.

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Understand AI spending and value

See where the budget goes and what the business gets back.

Share one AI budget across your tools

Fund people, teams and projects across connected services.

Give your team more capacity

Reduce the preparation, checking and follow-up around recurring work.

Connect AI use to delivered work

Follow AI activity into projects, code and business results.
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Flowstate Desktop

Routes your AI tools through Flowstate so usage is tracked against your budget and requests go to the right model.

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Deploying to a fleet? MDM guide

The Flowstate menu on the Mac menu bar, showing Connected with a switch, a wallet with a $1,000 limit, $672 used and $328 remaining, the signed-in account, requests routed, Sign out and Quit Flowstate. The Flowstate panel opened from the Windows system tray, showing Connected with a switch, a wallet with a $1,000 limit, $672 used and $328 remaining, the signed-in account, requests routed, Sign out and Quit Flowstate.

What you get

  • Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and more. No per-tool setup, apart from one Terminal line for Node tools.
  • Only AI requests go through Flowstate. Everything else goes direct.
  • Your spend limit, what you’ve used and what’s left, in the menu bar.
  • If Flowstate can’t be reached, requests go straight to the AI service and your tools keep working.

Flowstate Router

Flowstate Desktop sends AI requests to Flowstate Router, which records each one against your budget and, if your organisation turns it on, moves simple prompts to a cheaper model.

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Release details

macOS
Version 2.0.6 · 19.4 MB · macOS 14+, Apple silicon and Intel
SHA-256 2fd11b719bf4127c754159b337a8ce985dfb9bff6e0a257bfff7044f03562788
Windows
Version 1.0.1 · 60.5 MB · .msi, 64-bit
SHA-256 70cff6c0ae754b226e61833def778c7663355e539236456fc0c669d9e3a3dc15
Practical questions

What to know before you start.

What is the certificate for, and is it safe?

It lets Flowstate Desktop read your AI tools’ encrypted requests on your Mac. Its private key is created on your Mac and never leaves it. The certificate only covers the domains AI services use, so connections to other sites are never decrypted.

Can IT deploy it without prompts?

Yes. A configuration profile in Jamf, Kandji, Intune or another MDM approves the network extension and proxy, and can push the certificate. People then only need to sign in. The MDM guide in the docs has the details.

How do I uninstall it?

Quit Flowstate from the menu bar and delete the app. Then remove Flowstate from Network Extensions in System Settings, and delete its certificate in Keychain Access.