DEFINITION
Cost Forecasting & Budget Caps
LLM Cost Forecasting and Hard Budget Caps
Definition
Agent observability features that predict future LLM spending based on current usage patterns and enforce hard limits on total spending. Enables teams to control costs and prevent runaway expenses in production agent systems.
Examples in the Wild
- Example 1:Forecasting monthly OpenAI costs based on daily token usage
- Example 2:Setting hard budget caps that halt agent execution when spending limit is reached
- Example 3:Tracking cost per agent, per model, per environment