AI spend and budgets
In an organization, owners and admins see what llamas’ work on the company’s keys costs in Settings → AI spend (Team, Business and Enterprise).
What it shows, for the month you pick (the arrows go back and forth):
- the total, and how many runs on the company’s keys;
- each project: which company key pays for it (Paid with), and what it spent;
- the spend by key and by llama, and the month’s costliest tasks;
- with Business and Enterprise: who asked for the work, and Export, a spreadsheet of every run for billing clients or teams.
A task’s page also shows what its work on the company’s keys has cost (AI cost), for owners and admins.
The numbers are estimates from each run’s tokens at Claude’s list prices; your Anthropic Console has the real bill. Months are calendar months in UTC.
Llamas on Macs count here when the company rule has them think with the company’s keys (Settings → AI keys → Llamas on Macs). On their owner’s own Claude Code or Codex sign-in, the company doesn’t pay for them, so they aren’t counted.
Monthly budgets (Business and Enterprise): type an amount in US dollars in a project’s Budget / month box and press Enter.
- At 80%, owners and admins get an email.
- At 100%, they get another, and llamas stop starting new work on the company’s keys for that project: in the cloud, and on Macs under the company rule. The llama says why in the chat. Work already running finishes.
- It starts again next month, or as soon as you raise the budget. Clear the box for no budget.
- A llama on its owner’s own sign-in, on a sleeping Mac, waits for its Mac instead of working in the cloud.
Cap per task (Business and Enterprise): the most one llama may spend on a single piece of work, in the cloud or on a Mac under the company rule. When it gets there, it stops and says so, so a runaway task can’t use up a budget. Leave it empty for no cap.
Who sees costs: owners and admins. Members and guests see what llamas did, not what it cost.
Tip: Anthropic’s Console can hold a separate workspace per team, each with its own spend limit and keys. One Console workspace per project key gives you a hard limit at Anthropic as well as in Llamabyt.