Use Case
LLM Cost Tracking & Budget Policies
Control spend without killing quality: per-request cost tracking, routing, caching, and budget gates.
At a glance
Outcomes
- ✓ Predictable spend
- ✓ Faster debugging
- ✓ Better quality-cost tradeoffs
Stack
- — Telemetry events
- — Budget gates
- — Routing
- — Caching (optional)
Typical timeline
2–3 weeks
kick-off to handover
Risks & guardrails
- Over-instrumentation — track at the workflow level first, not every token call
- Budget gates too aggressive — test thresholds on real traffic before enforcing hard limits
Problem
Costs drift silently: long prompts, hidden context growth, provider retries, and tool calls can multiply spend. Most teams only notice after the invoice.
Solution
- Per-request cost and token breakdowns (prompt vs completion)
- Budget policies by workflow/user/role
- Routing and caching for predictable cost-quality tradeoffs
- Alerts for spikes, failures, and “context bloat”
What you get
- Cost telemetry and dashboards
- Budget gates and safe fallbacks
- Clear playbooks for cost incidents
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