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Pre-Call Estimates Beat Usage Reports for Agent Budgets (With Hard Caps)

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TL;DR: Use a pre-call cost estimate to decide whether an agent may take an expensive branch, record post-call usage for invoice reconciliation and calibration, and enforce an account cap as the final damage boundary. An estimate can change the outcome; a report can only describe money already spent…

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  1. 2026-09-17 23:28 · DEV Community — AI
    Pre-Call Estimates Beat Usage Reports for Agent Budgets (With Hard Caps)

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