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Cost control combines attributed spend, cost-quality coverage, budgets, and access to the Price Book. Use it to assign a spending allowance to an organization, project, team, user, or API key. Provider inference charges are separate from your Aixy subscription.

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Understand the spend you see

Choose a reporting period and inspect the total, forecast when available, and breakdowns by project, team, user, or key. Read Cost data quality alongside the total: estimated, provider-reported, partial, and unattributed requests have different evidence. Open an unattributed reason to inspect matching requests in Activity. Missing pricing is not zero spend. Set up pricing and cost attribution before using reported totals to make budget decisions.

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Create a budget

  1. Open Cost control → Create budget.
  2. Choose Scope and its target. Organization administrators can manage all supported scopes; Project admins manage budgets for their assigned projects.
  3. For organization or project scope, choose Shared total or Each user under Applies to.
  4. Select Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Lifetime as the reset interval.
  5. Enter the USD limit, warning percentage, and enforcement mode, then save.
A shared budget covers the target’s combined traffic. Each user gives each attributed user an individual allowance under the same policy. For example, a project allowance of 20foreachuserisseparatefroma20 for each user is separate from a 200 shared project budget; both may apply to the same request. Team budgets use the API key’s selected team cost center. Use individual keys for personal attribution; sharing a key attributes all that traffic to its recorded owner.

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Choose enforcement

A warning percentage marks budget status. To send notifications, configure a budget-utilization monitor with a notification channel.

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Prepare a hard budget

Hard admission needs a conservative maximum request cost: complete applicable prices, a supported bounded text request, and a positive output-token limit. It reserves capacity before contacting a provider. Prepared reference prices must be sufficiently fresh; explicit Price Book rules can provide the required rates. Follow the hard-budget pricing checklist. After execution, complete accounting can settle the reservation to the attributed amount. Incomplete usage or an uncertain upstream outcome can retain conservative capacity. The reserved amount is not a confirmed provider bill, and a timeout does not establish zero cost. Routing can produce several upstream attempts with separate costs.

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Verify the limit

Select the budgeted key and model in Playground, resolve any pricing notice, and make a short request. Inspect its budget decision and cost evidence in Activity, then refresh Cost control. Members can review applicable personal budget information in Usage. When editing an existing budget, you can change its amount, warning threshold, and enforcement. Choose scope, allocation, and reset interval when creating the budget. Review every applicable limit when investigating a rejection; increasing one limit does not bypass another.