Merge Gateway Adds Granular AI Budgets

Granular budgets are essential once AI usage becomes production infrastructure, and Merge’s pre-provider enforcement makes blocked requests costless. The operational caveat is that the request crossing a limit still completes, while budget changes can take up to an hour to apply.

• –Organization credit acts as a backstop across all Gateway traffic.
• –Project and per-key limits isolate spend by workload, team, credential, or environment.
• –Customer budgets support products reselling Gateway through Embedded Routing.
• –Remaining-budget headers enable applications to display or react to spend thresholds.
• –Project budgets require a scoped project key or X-Project-Id header; a body-only project_id does not enforce them.