Finance · Usage Limits
Put a ceiling on AI spend — per user, per agent, per tool
Cap coverage is 78% (14 of 18 entities have a ceiling). 3 over cap (svc-data@qpoint.io, support-copilot, gpt-4o), 2 near it. $218.50 flows through 4 uncapped entities — starting with data-pipeline-agent (the LLM10 unbounded finding). We're in Audit: nothing is blocked yet.
How a breached cap is handled
Audit live · Assist / Enforce projectedAudit
live nowObserve consumption against each cap. Surface who has no ceiling and who is over — no intervention.
Assist
projectedAlert the owner at 80% of cap and require approval to keep spending past it.
Enforce
projectedHard-stop the run when the cap is hit. The spend simply cannot exceed the ceiling.
Cap coverage
14 of 18 have a ceiling
Over cap
3already past a ceiling this period
Near cap
2≥ 80% — Assist would alert
Uncapped spend
$218.504 entities · no ceiling at all
Limits by User
A monthly ceiling per human or service identity — who is spending.
User | Spend vs. cap | Used | Cap | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
dev-7f3@duck.com est | no ceiling — runs unbounded | $78.00 | none | uncapped |
(proxy-only, no identity) | no ceiling — runs unbounded | $44.10 | none | uncapped |
svc-data@qpoint.io | $52.30 | $40.00 | 131% over | |
mark@qpoint.io | $245.50 | $300.00 | 82% | |
svc-support@qpoint.io | $168.40 | $250.00 | 67% | |
jane@qpoint.io | $96.20 | $200.00 | 48% |
Each bar fills toward the cap line (100%). Rows past it are over; rows with no ceiling run uncapped — an enforcing policy can't stop what has no limit. At the recent ~$115.57/day fleet run-rate, the near-cap rows breach within 2 days.
No ceiling — set a cap first
2 uncapped · $218.50These actors spend with no limit. data-pipeline-agent is the LLM10 unbounded-consumption finding by name — it burned 9.2M tokens with no per-agent ceiling. Capping here is the highest-leverage move.
$78.00 spent · proposed cap $100.00/mo
~25% over observed spend
$44.10 spent · proposed cap $75.00/mo
~25% over observed spend
Enforce caps in Policy & Enforcement
projectedA spend ceiling is one policy on the same Audit → Assist → Enforce ladder. Flip to Enforce there to hard-stop a run when its cap is hit — paired with the tool allow-list and approval gates.