Most AI cost tooling is an autopsy. It tells you, in detail, what you already spent — token counts,...
Gatewards caps per-agent API spend at request time, refusing calls before they execute if over budget. This prevents runaway-loops, saves money via cross-agent dedup (same call paid once), and governs spend without surrendering keys to third parties.
Most AI cost tooling is an autopsy. It tells you, in detail, what you already spent — token counts, per-call traces, a
dashboard that turns red after the bill is locked in. None of it does the one thing I kept wanting: refuse the call before
it goes out.
I ran into this building agent tooling. Once I had more than a couple of agents hitting paid APIs on a schedule, two
problems showed up that nothing off the shelf solved cleanly.
Real benchmark data on how much tool schema re-sending costs in AI agents. Numbers, methodology, and a one-line fix.
I built a profiler to audit my own tool calls. After loading 157 skills in 12 days, I realized I had...
AI agents do not become expensive all at once. They become expensive one small decision at a...
Last time we put hard budgets on cost and guaranteed cleanup. This time we make sure you can inspect...
I Read Your AI Agent Logs So You Don't Have To: A $149 Service That Beats Another...
AI agent cost management belongs in runtime traces, evals, and harness policy, not monthly finance cleanup.
