Budgets & Cost Control

This content has moved to the Governance section for a single source of truth.

Budget Enforcement Per-user spending limits, grants, alerts, rate limiting, and audit trail.

Quick Summary

Candela’s budget system provides:

• Per-user daily budgets — configurable default via users.default_daily_budget_usd
• Budget timezone — configure budget.timezone for local daily resets (defaults to UTC)
• One-time grants — with expiration dates and waterfall deduction
• Denial reasons — budget_exhausted, soft_blocked, no_budget in 402 responses
• Threshold alerts — at 80%, 90%, and 100% spend
• Rate limiting — per-user request throttling (default: 60 req/min)
• Immutable audit trail — every admin action logged

See the full governance docs for configuration, admin API examples, and architecture details.