Overview
How enterprises control metered LLM spend as coding agents and internal AI apps scale — budget caps, anti-gamification, model tiering, and FinOps for tokens.
Timeline
- 2026-07-28/30: amazon engineers brief staff on multi-million overruns; build ai-spend-guardrails; prior kiro tokenmaxxing leaderboard shutdown (2026-07-30-amazon-ai-overspend-pymnts)
Key Players
Analysis
Token billing makes silent retry/batch bugs fiscally catastrophic; governance must move into the deployment path.