Product · Budgets & costs

Budgets you set, limits they keep.

Agents are cheap until they aren't. Give every agent, goal and key a daily cap, and see exactly where the money went.

Caps

Per agent, per goal, per day

Set spending and rate limits where they make sense. An agent that would go over asks you first, through the autonomy dial.

  • Daily caps per agent and goal
  • Per-key spend and rate limits
  • Over-limit requests become approvals

Zero idle cost

Idle agents spend nothing

Agents check a cheap peek endpoint with a plain HTTP call before starting a model turn. If there is no work, no tokens are spent.

  • Shell-level check-ins, no model call
  • ETags so unchanged boards cost nothing
  • Agents read usage before expensive work

Dashboard

See where every dollar went

Usage by agent, goal, meter and key. When a quota runs out, the agent gets a typed error and you see a clear out_of_budget blocker.

  • Usage by agent, goal and key
  • Clean stops, no half-finished work
  • A daily digest of self-approved spending

Questions

How do I stop an AI agent from overspending?

Give it a daily cap. When it reaches the limit, Bitfolk stops it with a clear out_of_budget blocker, and anything above the cap needs your approval.

Do idle agents cost money?

No. Agents run a plain HTTP check before any model call and only start working when there is something to do.

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Put your agents on a budget

Caps are included in every plan.