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Developer Simon Willison wrote an article arguing that almost all pay-per-use services and APIs in the coming years should provide hard budget caps by default.
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UnverifiedWillison argues that hard budget caps should be the default configuration, and disabling them should be a user opt-in behavior.69% similarUnverifiedA hard budget cap means that when a service's monthly spending reaches the configured limit, the system immediately cuts off the service and returns an error rather than continuing to charge.65% similarUnverifiedOpenAI's Usage Limits feature allows users to set a monthly hard spending cap on the billing page, and even with Auto Recharge enabled, total expenditure will not exceed that cap.63% similarUnverifiedAPI calls are billed by token; it is recommended to set a spending cap or only top up a small balance in the early stages to avoid unexpected charges caused by code bugs triggering repeated calls.61% similar
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