What is AI budget control?

AI budget control is the practice of enforcing company AI spend limits by counting tokens, applying model prices, and blocking or slowing official AI usage when budget thresholds are reached.

Can AI budgets be enforced locally?

Yes. A local AI gateway can enforce company, department, employee, and model budgets before official AI requests are routed.

AI budget control

Control AI budgets before token spend gets out of hand

TokenTally gives companies local AI budget control for official usage: model prices, token accounting, company budgets, department budgets, employee budgets, hard cutoffs, slowdown mode, alerts, and reports.

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What AI budget control includes

Per-model prices

Admins configure model/API prices so token usage becomes spend that finance and IT can govern.

Budget periods

Weekly, monthly, and custom periods can be enforced for the company, departments, employees, and models.

Hard cutoff

Official AI usage is blocked locally when the configured limit is reached.

Slowdown mode

Admins can preserve priority teams or seniority levels while cheaper routes or lower output limits apply elsewhere.

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How does TokenTally enforce AI budget control?

TokenTally runs on the customer server, checks official AI requests through the local gateway, estimates tokens, applies configured model prices, records local usage, and blocks or slows requests when budgets require it.

Does the owner platform see customer AI costs by employee?

No. The owner platform manages subscriptions, invoices, licenses, and downloads only. Customer token usage and internal cost details stay in the customer installation.