AI Valve is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Per Søderlind.
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AI Valve is a newly-listed WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. no published reviews yet means feature claims are unverified by the wider merchant base. Without a published review base, the only fit-signal available is the developer's own documentation plus the marketplace's listing-quality audit (linked below). Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Per Søderlind — established developer track record
Cons
- −No public reviews yet — fit and reliability are unverified
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How AI Valve works
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AI Valve gives site administrators visibility and control over how plugins use the built-in WordPress AI connector.
Features
Per-plugin access control — Allow or deny individual plugins from making AI requests.
Abilities API guard — Optionally apply the same policy to WordPress Abilities API calls (WordPress 7.1+), keyed by ability namespace.
Token budgets — Set daily and monthly token limits per plugin and globally.
Context restrictions — Control which execution contexts (admin, frontend, cron, REST, AJAX, CLI) may trigger AI calls.
Usage dashboard — See token consumption at a glance with summary cards, progress bars, and per-plugin breakdowns.
Request logging — Every AI request is logged with provider, model, capability, tokens, and caller attribution.
Budget alerts — Admin notices and optional email when usage approaches or exceeds limits.
Requirements
WordPress 7.0 or later
PHP 8.3 or later
A configured AI provider in Settings → Connectors
Developer Hooks AI Valve exposes filters and actions so you can extend its behaviour without editing the plugin. Full signatures, parameters, and examples are in the developer hooks documentation.
aivalve_plugin_policy (filter) — Override the allow/deny decision for any plugin.
aivalve_request_denied (action) — React when an AI request is blocked.
aivalve_request_completed (action) — React when an AI request succeeds (token counts available).
aivalve_ability_invoked (action) — React when an Abilities API call is invoked (WP 7.1+).
aivalve_ability_denied (action) — React when an Abilities API call is blocked (WP 7.1+).
Renamed in 1.3.0 from the soderlind_aivalve_ prefix; the old names still fire as deprecated aliases and will be removed in a future major version.
Competitors & alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
What is AI Valve?
AI Valve is an app for WordPress. It is published on WordPress Plugin Directory and tracked by AppRanks, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Per Søderlind.