FinOps Framework · Operate · Invoicing & Chargeback
Hard spending ceilings for every agent run
SAVI lets you set a budget ceiling for each agent run or workflow, enforced in real time. It triggers alerts when limits are reached, rolls over monthly, and keeps agents running without disruption. It's the safety net your team needs to innovate with confidence while keeping costs in check.
- Define a fixed budget for your pipeline and guarantee it stays within that limit at all times
- Budget enforcement runs atomically in Redis, preventing race conditions across concurrent agent events
- A monitoring layer that provides full visibility without introducing operational risk or instability
Team budget caps don't protect you from one expensive agent job
A monthly team cap of $10,000 catches overspend at the team level - but it won't stop a single overnight KYC pipeline run from consuming $4,000 of that cap before anyone wakes up. Agent Budget Pools give you a second enforcement layer: per-job spending ceilings that fire the moment a single run exceeds your threshold.
Monthly team caps are too coarse for agent workflows
A $500 cap on a single batch job protects the rest of your monthly budget from one run going wrong. Team caps don't give you that precision.
Agent frameworks need deterministic behaviour
Rate-limit failures don’t immediately break agent runs. SAVI flags the issue and leaves the decision to operators, preserving execution continuity.
In-memory state systems introduce risk of counter loss
Periodic reconciliation ensures durable, restart-safe spend tracking across the system.
Create a pool, enrol a run, set a ceiling
Set up a Budget Pool in minutes: give it a name, a spending ceiling, and attach it to the agent run you want to protect. From that point, every AI call that run makes is counted against the pool automatically. The moment the ceiling is hit, SAVI fires an alert and flags the run as breached - without stopping your agent mid-run. One run, one pool, one ceiling. The precision that team-level budget caps can't give you.
- Name the pool, set the cap, and attach it to any agent run from the SAVI console
- Breached pools trigger Slack and PagerDuty alerts immediately - no polling, no batch delay
- Pool spend can be tracked separately from the team monthly cap to avoid double-counting
Budget Pool setup · Ceiling attached in two steps
Enforcement guarantees · Built for concurrent agent workloads
Every call counted, every time - no exceptions
When hundreds of agent events arrive at the same time, every one is counted exactly once. Budget Pools are built for concurrent agent workloads where a missed count would defeat the ceiling. In the rare event of a backend interruption, the pool counter is automatically reconciled from a recent snapshot - no spend tracking is ever lost.
- Concurrent agent events all counted exactly once - no missed increments, no double-counting
- Spend counters survive system restarts - automatically reconciled from the most recent snapshot
- Backend issues handled safely - every event is logged and reconciled, never silently dropped
Monthly rollover and lifecycle management
Monthly pools reset automatically on the first of each month - no manual action needed, no missed resets. Every reset is logged, and 13 months of spend history is retained for compliance and audit. When a pool reaches its planned end date, it is automatically archived with its full spend record intact. SAVI handles the lifecycle so you don't have to think about it.
- Automatic monthly reset - no manual action, no configuration needed
- 13 months of pool spend history retained - aligned with regulatory data retention requirements
- Expired pools automatically archived with full spend record intact and queryable
| Use Case | Pool Config |
|---|---|
| KYC batch job | Lifetime ceiling - one job, one fixed cost limit, never exceeded |
| Daily report agent | Monthly cap - resets each month, protects recurring workflow costs |
| Research pipeline | Higher monthly cap - exploratory work with a sensible guardrail |
| Chatbot session | Per-session limit - enforce a per-conversation cost ceiling |
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Budget Pool setup · Ceiling attached in two steps
Budget Pools
Do you know what a single agent run costs before it completes?
6 questions. Answer honestly.
Can you set a hard spend limit on a single AI agent job - and enforce it before the job overspends, not after?
If an automated AI pipeline breaches its budget ceiling overnight - would you know before your team starts work in the morning?
Can you track agent spend separately from team spend - so the same cost is never counted twice?
Can any team member check the live spend of a running agent job right now - without needing an engineering request?
If your infrastructure has an outage overnight, does your agent spend tracking pick up exactly where it left off?
Do you have a full audit trail of every agent run's cost - by job, by pool, going back 13 months?
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Cap every agent run at the source.
BudgetPool attaches a hard spending ceiling to any agent workflow in two API calls. Book a demo to see it in action.