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Decisions
- Metering happens at the gateway, not in the agent, so an agent cannot under-report its own consumption
- Budget is reserved at admission and reconciled at completion; a run cannot start that it cannot afford to finish
- A breached budget degrades the route to a cheaper model before it blocks the run — blocking is the last step, not the first
Attribution
- Per execution, per agent, per workflow, per project, per tenant, and a shared-infrastructure split by token share
- Alerts at 80 percent of budget, hard stop at the ceiling, with a monthly forecast from the current run rate
- Chargeback export monthly per tenant, reconciled against Azure Cost Management for the infrastructure component
The levers, in order of value
- Context compression — tokens per run is the single largest cost driver and the one the platform controls directly
- Semantic and exact-match caching, measured as a hit rate per agent
- Cost-aware routing to the cheapest model that passes the agent's quality bar, and PTU utilisation kept high enough to justify the reservation
