Stop a runaway agent before it blows your budget

Upsun Dispatch presents a prepaid-credit model for controlling AI agent-time spending, addressing the variable costs caused by retries, expanding context, and more complex workflows, while model-token charges remain billed directly by providers such as Anthropic or OpenAI. Users fund a wallet in several currencies, receive low-balance notifications, and can estimate costs per run through tracked agent time and token usage; when credit reaches zero, new runs are blocked but active runs can finish, potentially creating a small negative balance. Expensive active runs can be cancelled through Dispatch or integrated platforms including GitHub, GitLab, Linear, and Jira, ending agent-time billing immediately. Agent time is charged only while an isolated sandbox is active, so workflows paused for human approval do not accumulate agent-time costs. The service recommends using its free tier of 20 shared agent-minutes per day to establish real workflow costs, then funding a monthly budget with contingency, although separate team organizations provide spend tracking rather than independently enforced budgets.

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