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title: "Spend caps and alerts · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing/spend-caps-and-alerts
parts: 5
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updated: 2026-10-27
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licence: "CC BY 4.0"
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---

# Spend caps and alerts

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [Pricing, plans and entitlements](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-27.

> Let customers set a hard cap on their spend and warn them before they reach it. Split caps by key or member, and show usage that matches the invoice.

**For agents:** this playbook is free to use under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add `<a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing/spend-caps-and-alerts">Agent Wranglers pricing, plans and entitlements playbook</a>`. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.

## Required

- PRC-7 [Let customers cap their spend](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing/spend-caps-and-alerts/customer-spend-cap.md) · 1,097 tokens · updated 2026-10-27
  Let every customer on a usage or overage plan set a monthly spend cap. Refuse metered work that would pass it, before the work starts.

## Recommended

- PRC-8 [Warn customers before they reach a cap or run out](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing/spend-caps-and-alerts/usage-alerts.md) · 606 tokens · updated 2026-10-27
  Email the billing contact when usage reaches 50%, 80% and 100% of the spend cap or the prepaid balance. Send each alert once per period.
- PRC-9 [Show live usage that matches the invoice](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing/spend-caps-and-alerts/usage-dashboard.md) · 628 tokens · updated 2026-10-27
  Show customers their usage and charges for the current period, per meter and per day, computed by the same code that builds the invoice.
- PRC-10 [Let owners set a cap on each member and key](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing/spend-caps-and-alerts/scoped-spend-caps.md) · 669 tokens · updated 2026-10-27
  Let an organisation owner set a spend cap on each member, API key and agent, below the organisation's cap. Refuse work at whichever cap is reached first.
- PRC-11 [Bound how far a cap can be overshot](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing/spend-caps-and-alerts/cap-overshoot.md) · 862 tokens · updated 2026-10-27
  Write the largest overshoot each spend cap allows, such as 1% of the cap. Enforce it with holds or a strongly consistent counter on the request path, never with a total that lags.

## Read this with

- [Usage-based billing playbook](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/usage-billing.md). Customers cap what they spend, get warned before the cap and see usage that matches the invoice.

- Previous: [Plan changes, trials and free tiers](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing/plan-changes-trials-and-free-tiers.md)
- Next: [Ledger and accounting](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing/ledger-and-accounting.md)
- [All chapters](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/pricing.md)