Agent Cost Control

Your Agent
Burned $4,000
Overnight.
Budget Limits
Stop It at $10.

One infinite loop. One recursive tool chain. One hallucinated API call repeated 10,000 times. That's all it takes to turn a $0.002 agent call into a $4,000 overnight disaster. SupraWall Budget Limits set hard, deterministic caps that no LLM can talk its way around.

Agent Spend Monitor
$0.02accrued

🟢 Within budget

Real-World Incidents

These Happened.
To Real Teams. Last Month.

LangChain

Recursive Research Agent

$3,800

A LangChain agent tasked with market research entered an infinite search-summarize-search loop at 3AM. By 7AM it had consumed 47 million tokens across 12,000 API calls.

12,000 API calls4 hours to detect
CrewAI

The Helpful Emailer

$450

A CrewAI agent hallucinated that it needed to send follow-up emails to every contact in the database. It called the email API 2,400 times before the team noticed.

2,400 email calls20 minutes
AutoGen

Parallel Database Drain

$1,800

An AutoGen multi-agent swarm spawned 8 sub-agents that each ran the same expensive aggregation query in parallel, repeatedly.

8 agents × repeated queries45 minutes

With SupraWall Budget Limits, every one of these incidents would have been stopped at the cap you set.

Architecture

Three Layers.
Zero Overruns.

01

Hard Budget Cap

Dollar Limit Per Agent Per Day

Enforced at Evaluate API

Set a dollar limit per agent, per day ($10/day, $50/day, $500/day). SupraWall tracks accumulated cost in real time by multiplying token consumption by the model's per-token price. When the cap is reached: hard stop. No exceptions, no overrides, no matter what the LLM requests.

02

Circuit Breaker

Loop Detection Before Budget Impact

Default: 10 calls / 60 seconds

SupraWall analyzes tool call patterns in real time. If it detects repetitive identical calls (configurable threshold), it triggers the circuit breaker immediately — before the budget cap is even reached. Catches infinite loops in seconds, not hours.

03

Session Token Limit

Max Token Count Per Session

Input + Output tokens tracked

Independent of dollar cost, set a maximum token count per session. Prevents long-running agents from accumulating excessive context windows that degrade performance and inflate costs. Works with streaming, extended thinking, and multi-agent conversations.

Interactive Calculator

What Does an Uncontrolled Agent Really Cost?

5
500
5,000

Monthly Cost WITHOUT Limits

$1.9K

Assuming agents run uncapped

Monthly Cost WITH $10/day Cap

$1.5K

Savings: $375/month

Worst-Case Incident (1 Loop)

$1.3K

Infinite loop for 10 minutes

Why Not Just...

Deterministic Limits.
Not Rate-Limit Hacks.

CapabilitySupraWallBudget LimitsAPI ProviderRate LimitsDIY TokenCountingPortkey /LLM Gateway
Hard dollar cap per agentPARTIAL
Infinite loop circuit breaker
Per-session token limitsPARTIAL
Works at SDK level (not gateway)
Agent self-correction on budget hitPARTIAL
EU AI Act compliant logging
Combined with vault + tool interception
Latency overhead1.2msN/A5-20ms10-50ms

Integration

Three Lines.
Total Cost Control.

TypeScript / Python
import { secure_agent } from "suprawall";

const secured = secure_agent(myAgent, {
  budget: {
    daily_limit_usd: 10,        // Hard stop at $10/day
    session_tokens:  500_000,   // Max 500K tokens per session
    circuit_breaker: {
      max_identical_calls: 10,  // Kill after 10 repeated calls
      window_seconds: 60,       // Within 60-second window
    },
  },
  on_budget_exceeded: "halt",   // "halt" | "notify" | "degrade"
  on_loop_detected:   "halt",
});

// That's it. No agent can spend beyond $10/day.
// Infinite loops are caught in < 60 seconds.

$0+

Capital Protected from Runaway Agents

0

Infinite Loops Caught This Month

1.2ms

Average Enforcement Latency

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