How we went from $0 to $100K/month in coding agent spend, and the budget controls that saved us.
Claude Code adoption a 40 engineer ha bruciato $20K/mese (spike 340%) senza visibility. LiteLLM proxy risolve con budget per dev, team caps, model controls e attribution—critico per scalare agents in sicurezza.
Your engineering team adopted Claude Code last month. Productivity went up. Then the bill came in.
340% increase.
Nobody budgeted for this. Nobody even knew who spent what.
The math that kills budgets
A single coding agent session makes 50-200 API calls. Claude Sonnet 4 processes 100K+ context windows on every call. One developer running sessions all day burns $50-100.
We run a studio where AI agents work mostly unattended — they write code, ship sites, produce...
A multi-agent loop got stuck retrying a tool call. I had per-call cost logging but no shared cap. Now I run a shared atomic…
My AI agent's CI bill was 6× higher than my last project's. Here's the spec I wrote to fix...
I left an AI coding agent running for one day. Then I read the invoice. $788. In about 13...
An enterprise client spent $500M in one month on Anthropic's Claude AI with no usage limits set, highlighting a growing AI cost…
Claude Code + Cloudflare Workers 12개를 production에서 굴리는 1인 SaaS 운영자가 실제 비용 청구서와 에러 로그를 근거로 정리한 에이전트 디버깅 도구 실전 후기.
