Create a spending budget to control what your AI agent can access and how much it can spend.

Setting Up Your First Budget

A budget is how you control your AI agent's access and spending. Every tool call your agent makes is scoped to a budget, so nothing happens without your permission.

Create a Budget#

Go to the AI Budgets tab

From your dashboard, click the AI Budgets tab. This is where all your budgets live.

Click Create Budget

Give your budget a name (e.g., "Research Agent" or "Content Creation"). Pick something that describes what this agent will do.

Set a spending cap

Choose a cap amount and frequency. You can limit spending per-call, hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly. Start conservative -- you can always increase it later.

Add tools and vendors

Browse the marketplace and add the tools your agent needs. You can also whitelist specific vendors. Your agent can only use tools that are in its budget.

Get Your Connection Keys#

Once your budget is created, you'll see two keys on the budget card:

API Key -- Your user-level key (same across all budgets)
Budget Key -- Unique to this budget, controls which tools the agent can access

You'll need both to connect your AI agent. Copy them and keep them safe.

Keep your keys private

Anyone with your API key and budget key can make tool calls on your behalf, charged against your budget's spending cap.