LLM API Spending Limits: Why 20 Agents Under Budget Still Blow the Cap (with Python Fix)
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Twenty agents start at the same moment. Each one checks the budget, sees $4.10 spent against a $5.00 cap, and sends a request that costs about $0.15. All twenty checks pass. Together they add $3.00, so you end at $7.10 on a $5.00 cap. Nothing crashed and nothing threw an error. The guard read a num…
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- 2026-10-19 08:57 · DEV Community — AI
LLM API Spending Limits: Why 20 Agents Under Budget Still Blow the Cap (with Python Fix)