Set per-user budgets on AI Gateway
Vercel AI Gateway now lets you cap spend per team member — critical for controlling runaway agentic workloads.
Why it matters
A practical cost-control feature for teams deploying unsupervised AI agents and automated workloads. Per-user budgets prevent one user or rogue agent from exhausting shared API spend, with granular reset cycles and email alerting.
The key facts
17 to knowPer-user dollar spending limits now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Budgets apply across all API keys and app tokens attributed to a user
Requests rejected after budget is reached until reset or increase
Default and custom budget options; reset cycles: monthly (default), daily, weekly, or never
Usage alerting at 50%, 75%, and 100% of allocation via email
Designed for controlling spend from coding agents and unsupervised workloads
Team owners manage budgets; can delegate to other members with AI Gateway Budget Manager role
Budgets stack: requests must satisfy user, API key, project, and team limits
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) credentials exempt from user budget counting
Backwards compatibility: pre-release API keys attributed to team by default
Per-user budgets cover all API keys and app tokens attributed to a user
Requests rejected after budget limit reached until reset or increase
Monthly default reset; configurable to daily, weekly, or never
Usage alerts at 50%, 75%, 100% of allocation via email
Team owners manage budgets; can grant 'AI Gateway Budget Manager' role to other members
BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) credentials excluded from user budget tracking
Feature requires latest Vercel CLI; backwards-compatible with pre-release keys (attributed to team)
Go to the source
Vercel Blogvercel.com
Publisher excerpt: You can now use to set a dollar spending limit for each user on your team. AI Gateway budgets The limit covers spend from every API key attributed to the user, along with their app tokens. After it's reached, AI Gateway rejects new requests until the budget resets or is increased. This is useful…