Backmesh

Backmesh: Secure Your LLM API Keys and Control Access

What is Backmesh? Backmesh is an open-source, thoroughly tested backend designed to protect your Large Language Model (LLM) API keys. It acts as an API Gatekeeper, enabling your application to safely interact with LLMs. This prevents costly leaks and unauthorized access, safeguarding your resources.

How does Backmesh work?

Backmesh offers several key features to enhance the security and control of your LLM API usage:

• JWT Authentication: Backmesh verifies requests using JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) from your application's authentication provider. This ensures that only authorized users can access the LLM API through Backmesh.
• Rate Limits: Configure rate limits on a per-user basis to prevent abuse. For example, you can restrict users to a maximum of 5 OpenAI API calls per hour.
• API Resource Access Control: Protect sensitive API resources like Files and Threads, ensuring that only the users who created them can access them.

Key Features and Benefits

• Enhanced Security: Protects your LLM API keys from being exposed in your application's frontend code, preventing leaks and unauthorized usage.
• Cost Control: Implement rate limits to prevent excessive API usage and unexpected costs.
• Access Control: Manage access to specific API resources, ensuring data privacy and security.
• LLM User Analytics: Instrument all LLM API calls to track usage patterns, reduce costs, and improve user satisfaction within your AI applications.

How to use Backmesh?

Backmesh is designed to be easy to integrate into your existing application architecture. Simply deploy the Backmesh backend and configure your application to route LLM API requests through it.

1. Start with the Open Source Backend: You can leverage Backmesh's open-source nature to deploy and customize it according to your specific needs.
2. Integration: Direct your app's LLM API calls via Backmesh.
3. Analytics: Gain insight with usage tracking to optimize costs and user experience.

Who is Backmesh for?

Backmesh is ideal for developers and organizations that:

• Are building applications that use LLMs.
• Need to protect their LLM API keys.
• Want to control access to LLM APIs.
• Want to track LLM API usage.

Why choose Backmesh?

Choosing Backmesh means opting for a robust, secure, and cost-effective solution to manage your LLM API interactions. Its open-source nature fosters community-driven improvements and transparency, while its built-in features offer granular control and insightful analytics. By implementing Backmesh, you ensure that your application can safely and efficiently leverage the power of LLMs without compromising security or budget.

Ready to take control of your LLM API security? Start with Backmesh and build your AI applications with confidence.