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Overview

Dakora’s budget feature helps you maintain control over LLM costs. Set spending limits at the project level, receive proactive alerts, and enforce budget caps to prevent overspending.

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Key Capabilities

Monthly Budgets

Set hard or soft spending limits per project

Real-time Alerts

Get notified before reaching budget thresholds

Flexible Enforcement

Choose between alert-only or hard budget blocks

Multi-Environment

Separate budgets for dev, staging, and production

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Setting Up Budgets

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Configure in Studio

  1. Navigate to Settings > Budget
  2. Set your monthly budget limit in USD
  3. Configure alert thresholds (e.g., notify at 80%)
  4. Choose enforcement mode: alert-only or hard limit
Budget Settings

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Budget Configuration Options

SettingDescription
Monthly BudgetMaximum USD spend per month
Alert ThresholdPercentage at which to send alerts (e.g., 80%)
Enforcement Modealert (notify only) or block (stop executions)

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Budget Alerts & Enforcement

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Alert System

When spending approaches your configured threshold:
  1. Email notification sent to project owners
  2. Dashboard warning displayed in Studio
  3. API response includes budget status in metadata

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Enforcement Modes

Alert-only mode: Continue executions but send notifications Block mode: Reject new execution requests once budget is exceeded 
{
  "error": "Budget exceeded",
  "details": {
    "budget_limit": 100.00,
    "current_spend": 102.45,
    "enforcement_mode": "block"
  }
}

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Best Practices

Begin with alert-only enforcement to understand your spending patterns before enabling hard limits that could disrupt service.
Configure alerts at 50% and 80% to give yourself adequate time to react before hitting the budget limit.
Create separate projects for development, staging, and production with appropriate budget limits for each environment.

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Next Steps

Observability

Track execution logs and traces

Templates

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