My notis

Two limits on an agent: a monthly cap and a per-minute pace

Illustration: A wall-mounted metering unit with a dial gauge and an outlet pipe; its green shut-off valve stands for the monthly spend cap that stops API usage. — Illustration made with AI for ai notis. Made with AI.

What it shows

A wall-mounted metering unit with a dial gauge and an outlet pipe; its green shut-off valve stands for the monthly spend cap that stops API usage.

Its labels

New: A monthly spend cap shuts usage off until the next month
A separate limit paces requests each minute
At the cap, retrying fails until access resumes

The story

How spend and rate limits cap what an AI agent costs · 17 Oct 2026

An illustration is never a picture of what happened. Drawn on 17 Oct 2026.

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