How to stop Claude Code from torching your API budget overnight: gateway routing explained
Lord_Alpha01 · reddit · 2026-10-22
A detailed breakdown of cost-control options for long-running coding agents: route requests through a gateway (Orq's orq launch claude, or a DIY LiteLLM proxy via ANTHROPICBASEURL) to get budgets, rate limits and per-call cost traces; know the limits—gateways can't constrain local agent actions like shell access, and hard spend caps can kill mid-migration tasks. Watch for session tokens expiring after an hour in unattended runs. The author favors auto-switching to cheaper models over hard cutoffs.
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