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cost-control

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Prevent runaway API costs with 3-tier protection: caution, emergency, and hard cap. Works for ANY expensive API GPT-4, Claude Opus, Gemini, cloud services.

When to use

• Prevent runaway API costs
• Monitor AI API calls
• Monitor cloud compute spend
• Track third-party API costs
• Control research/ML training costs
• Implement kill switch
• Deploy external watchdog

When not to use

• Clock skew between system and API
• Delayed cost reporting (API quotas update hourly)
• Watchdog reliability (cron timing jitter)
• Multi-process coordination

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