Cost Meters

Real-time resource consumption tracking for every run.

Components

Component	Metric	Source
LLM tokens	Input + output tokens × model rate	Per-request metering
MCP calls	Per-call cost by provider rate card	MCP runtime
Compute time	Agent container runtime (seconds)	Container orchestrator
Storage	Snapshot storage for time travel	S3 object size

Cost guardrails


rules:
  - id: cost-ceiling
    match: { cost_usd_gte: 50 }
    action: abort
    message: "Run exceeded $50 cost ceiling"
 
  - id: cost-warning
    match: { cost_usd_gte: 25 }
    action: warn

Workspace aggregation

Cost data aggregates for billing, team chargebacks (via workspace tags), and budget forecasting.


cendriix run get run_a1b2c3d4 --output json | jq '.cost'
cendriix workspace costs --from 30d

See also: Core concepts → Cost meter, Policies