How do you cap an AI agent's API spend across multiple vendors?
apyhubnico · reddit · 2026-09-16
An ApyHub co-founder argues agents calling APIs from multiple vendors create uncontrollable spend: no cross-vendor dashboard exists, and flat per-request pricing means a 200-byte lookup costs the same as 12MB OCR. Their solution: work-scaled "atoms" units with automatic refunds and a single pooled spending cap that halts calls at the limit — applying token-pricing logic to general APIs.
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