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Switch Trust shows what each of your agents spends on model calls, how fast it’s spending, and how that compares with a monthly cap you set. Use it to find the agents that cost the most and to see which ones are on track to go over budget before the month ends. Spend comes from the model calls your agents report through the SDK or OpenTelemetry. Switch Trust prices each call from Model pricing, where you can set your own negotiated rates. All amounts are in US dollars. Two things about pricing affect how you read the figures on this page:
  • A model with no price counts as $0. If an agent calls a model marked Unpriced on Model pricing, those calls add nothing to its spend. The agent reads lower than it really spends, and can show as Below cap against its cap when it isn’t. Set a price for every Unpriced model your agents use.
  • A price change recalculates everything. Switch Trust works out spend from the current prices each time it shows a figure, including spend from past months. Setting or resetting a negotiated rate can move an agent between Below cap, Near cap, and Over cap.

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See spending across your agents

Select Agents in the left navigation. Two cards sit above the agents table:
  • Total AI spend: What all your agents together have spent this month. If any agents have a cap, the card compares the total with the sum of those caps and shows how much is left. With no caps set, it shows No cap set.
  • Spending cap summary: How many agents with a cap are Below cap, Near cap, or Over cap. If any agents have no cap, a line underneath says how many.
The agents table also has a column for each agent’s spending this month:
  • Cost (MTD): What the agent has spent month to date
  • $/session (MTD): Its average cost per session, month to date
  • Cap usage (MTD): How much of its monthly cap it has used, or No cap
Month to date means since the start of the current calendar month.

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See spending for one agent

Select an agent to open it. Its Overview tab has a card for each view of its spending:
  • Cost by month: What the agent has spent. Choose Month, Quarter, or YTD to see this month, this quarter, or the year to date.
  • $ per session: Its average cost per session this month
  • Burn rate: How fast it’s spending, and how long until it reaches its cap. See Read the burn rate.
  • Monthly cap: Its cap and how much of it is used, or Set a cap if it doesn’t have one
If an agent doesn’t report its model calls yet, the cards prompt you to install the SDK.

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Set a monthly cap

A monthly cap is a spending budget for one agent. Switch Trust tracks the agent against it and forecasts when it will reach it.
A cap doesn’t stop an agent from spending. When an agent reaches its cap, its model calls carry on as normal and it’s marked Over cap. To reduce what an agent spends, use the optimizations on its Improvements tab.
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Open the agent

Select Agents, then select the agent.
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Open the cap dialog

On the Monthly cap card, select Set a cap. If the agent already has a cap, select Edit cap.
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Enter the cap and save it

Enter the monthly amount in US dollars. It must be greater than zero. Select Set cap, or Update if you’re changing an existing cap.
The Monthly cap card now shows the cap and how much of it the agent has used this month. The agent also counts toward Spending cap summary, and its cap is added to the total on Total AI spend. To remove a cap, open the dialog with Edit cap and select Remove cap. Only an Admin or Org Admin can set, change, or remove a cap.

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Read the burn rate

The Burn rate card shows the agent’s current run rate, in dollars per day. It’s what the agent has spent so far this month divided by the number of days the month has run, including today. If the agent has a cap, the card also shows Days to cap: how many days of spending at the current rate it would take to reach the cap. It also shows one of these statuses:
  • Below cap: The agent has spent less than 80% of its cap this month.
  • Near cap: The agent has spent 80% or more of its cap, but hasn’t reached it.
  • Over cap: The agent has spent its whole cap or more.
With no cap set, the card says so in place of a status, and shows the run rate only. Because the run rate averages every day of the month so far, one day of heavy spending moves it a lot early in the month and only a little near the end.