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Budgets that scale from a nudge to a guardrail.

Team × model budgets with thresholds and alerts today. Enforcement modes (block, override, fallback) when you opt into the router.

app.router.dev/budgets
BudgetsJune 2026New budget
MONTHLY CAP$27,500
SPENT TO DATE$19,960
PROJECTED$26,900
Design Eng · Opus$10,820/ $12,000
Data Science · Sonnet$5,400/ $7,500
Support · Haiku$2,400/ $5,000
Growth · Sonnet$900/ $3,000

Thresholds and alerts

50/75/90/100% notifications via Slack and email. Available without the router.

Design Eng · OpusJune budget · resets Jul 1
$10,820of $12,000 · 90% used
50%75%90%
$1,180 remainingAlerts at 50 · 75 · 90 · 100%
#ai-spend9:41 AM

Design Eng · Opus crossed 90% of its $12,000 June budget. $10,820 spent.

Same alert emailed to finance@acme.dev and #eng-leads
When the cap is hitDesign Eng · Opus
Advisory

Notify in Slack. Requests still go through.

Block

Reject new requests until the month resets.

Block + override

Block, but allow approved exceptions.

Fallback to cheaper model

Route overflow to a cheaper model.

Mode changes apply to new requests in seconds.Save mode

Four enforcement modes

Advisory, block, block+override, or fallback-to-cheaper-model. The last three require the opt-in router.

Override with context

Users request, admins approve in Slack with the full context attached.

#ai-approvalsToday, 11:02 AM
R
RouterAPP11:02 AM

Priya Sharma requests an override on Design Eng · Opus

BUDGET$11,640 of $12,000 · 97% used
REQUEST+$500 through Fri, Jun 12
REASON“Incident 4312 postmortem — log analysis runs tonight.”
ApproveDenyView budget
Decision lands in the audit log automatically.
Audit logJun 8, 2026 · UTCExport CSV
TIMEACTOREVENTDETAIL
09:41:07systemthreshold.alertDesign Eng · Opus crossed 90% ($10,820)
10:15:33sofia.rmode.updateAdvisory → Block + override
11:02:48priya.soverride.request+$500 — incident 4312 postmortem
11:06:12dana.woverride.approve+$500 through Jun 12
11:06:13systembudget.updateCap $12,000 → $12,500 until Jun 12
128 events in June · retained 24 monthsStreamed to your SIEM via API

An audit trail your security team will like

Every change logged, start to finish. Who, what, when, and why.

Alerts: no router neededEnforcement: opt-in routerSlack-native approvalsFull audit log

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