Setting a Budget Control cap
Monthly USD cap on upstream BYOK cost.
Open Dashboard → Budget Control. Set a monthly USD cap on the upstream cost HiWay is allowed to incur. Choose the two verdict thresholds (defaults 90% DOWNGRADE, 95% LIGHT_ONLY, 100% BLOCK) and pick alert channels.
Typical values
| Workload | Monthly cap | When BLOCK triggers |
|---|---|---|
| Side project | $50 | Rare - cap is a tripwire, not a limit |
| Production SaaS (100k MAU) | $1,000 | On runaway agent |
| Enterprise | $10,000+ | On SLA-grade sanity check |
Counts upstream cost only
Budget Control tracks what your provider keys get billed - HiWay's markup being a % of that spend, it is indirectly capped by Budget Control too.