A cap that refuses the call

Most AI cost tooling tells you what you spent after you spent it. GitRevio meters spend per user and per organisation, and enforces the cap at call time — once month-to-date spend reaches the ceiling, the call is refused rather than logged.

Spend resets naturally at the calendar month, because it is summed by month rather than tracked in a counter someone has to reset.

Where the cap binds

One gate decides whether an AI call is allowed, and three surfaces call it. The scope each surface enforces differs, so it is worth being precise:

AI chat

Per-user and per-org

A chat turn is checked against your own cap and your organisation's.

Skill runs

Per-org

A skill execution is checked against the organisation's cap.

Skill AI calls

Per-org

AI calls made from inside a skill are checked against the organisation's cap.

Per-user caps therefore bind on chat. Skill execution and the AI calls inside skills are governed by the organisation cap.

How a cap is resolved

  • A cap you set

    A USD-per-month ceiling for that scope.

  • A cap set to none

    Unlimited for that scope — an explicit choice, not an absence.

  • No cap set

    Falls back to the built-in defaults: $200/month for the organisation, $50/month per user.

  • An approved temporary override

    Raises the effective cap for that calendar month only.

Absolute ceiling

Above the configurable caps sits an absolute organisation ceiling. If the budget state cannot be resolved — a database problem, say — spend is rechecked against that ceiling and the call is blocked if it is at or over.

The default is to fail closed to a bound rather than fail open. An operator can raise it, or disable it deliberately.

When someone needs more

A blocked user is told which scope blocked them and what the cap was, and can request more budget. The request goes to a customer admin, who approves it temporarily — raising the cap for the current month — or permanently, or denies it.

Method Endpoint What it does
GET /api/v1/me/ai-spend Your own meter: month-to-date spend against your cap, the org context, and whether you are currently blocked.
GET /api/v1/admin/ai-spend Org dashboard: the org meter, a per-user breakdown, and the most expensive conversations.
PUT /api/v1/admin/ai-budget/limits Set or adjust a permanent cap, at org scope or for one user.
POST /api/v1/me/ai-budget/override-request Ask for more budget. Routed to a customer admin.
GET /api/v1/admin/ai-budget/override-requests List requests, pending first.
POST /api/v1/admin/ai-budget/override-requests/{id}/resolve Approve — temporarily or permanently — or deny.

Tenant isolation

Every query is scoped by the authenticated customer, never by a customer identifier supplied in the path or body. A write that names a target user validates that the user belongs to the authenticated customer first, so an admin cannot set a cap or resolve a request for someone in another tenant.

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