Spending limits

An agent’s monthly cap

On an agent’s page, Monthly cap sets the most credits it may spend in a calendar month. It starts at no cap. The people who manage the agent set it: workspace owners and admins for an agent everyone can use, and the agent’s owner for a private one. A cap needs the agent to be on a model with a credit rate.

When an agent reaches its cap, it starts no new runs, and a run that is working stops at its next step, saying the agent has reached its monthly limit. The cap resets at the start of each month.

A job’s budget

On a job’s page, the budget button below the agent bar sets a limit on the job’s runs, in credits, in minutes of model time, or both. Leave either blank for no limit. Model time counts only the time the agent is working, and time spent waiting for a person doesn’t count. Anyone who can change work in the project can set it.

Arbituro checks the budget when a run starts and at each step, so a single step can go over. When the job reaches its limit, the run stops, the job says so, and Budget spent appears in Your turn. Raise the limit and start the agent again to carry on.

Conversations started from Ask don’t count against a job’s budget.

The workspace’s credits

When the workspace runs out of credits, no agent starts a new step until more arrive. Owners and admins can see which agents and projects spent the credits, under Credits in Settings. See Credits.

Runs at once

A workspace can have up to 10 agent runs working at once, and each agent up to 10. Runs waiting on a person don’t count. A new run beyond that is refused, saying the limit was reached, until one finishes.