Budgets are the feature you use once
Set a budget once and the agent simply cannot exceed it. It is not an alert you have to act on — it is a hard stop.
Three controls
- Per-run token budget.
- Daily spend cap.
- Step budget (loop limit).
Why the loop limit matters
The most expensive failure is not a single big call — it is a small call repeated hundreds of times overnight. A step budget stops the loop at a number you pick.
Set it up
- Set a workspace daily cap in Settings.
- Give each agent a token budget.
- Turn on the loop limit.
- Check the spend tile at the end of the day.
Cheapest key that fits
The platform can route each task to the cheapest key that still fits, so a quick lookup does not burn the expensive model.