Both OpenAI and Anthropic have billing caps… who doesn’t?

simonw 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Huh, so they do.

OpenAI: https://community.openai.com/t/how-to-set-billing-limits-and... - last time I looked OpenAI had a soft but not hard limit, I guess they fixed that last year.

I remember bugging them both about this last year, I need to update my mental model!

kaufmann 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I tried Alibaba Cloud. They have no caps. This was the reason to cancel my account there.

Deepseek has a prepaid model. (Pretty impressive, what fits into 10 Dollar)

Literally every credit card I own allows me to make a virtual card that is either single use or has a cap.

	▲	dayone1 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Like which one? Most I know don’t have this feature

tadfisher 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Based on experience, Google Cloud. No idea if that translates to Gemini usage billing.

Gemini added prepaid billing and spending caps a few weeks ago: https://twitter.com/OfficialLoganK/status/204451626215244231...

	▲	js4ever 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I cancelled my whole GCP account a month ago because I was too afraid of getting charged hundreds of thousands overnight like all peoples on Reddit

wahnfrieden 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Microsoft

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totaa 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Google Vertex

	▲	squeaky-clean 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Long-running tasks like batch mode completions and agent sessions may incur overages beyond your project spend cap. > Billing data processing times can be delayed in AI Studio, up to around 10 minutes. You may experience overages beyond your project cap if billing data hasn't processed before more charges are accrued. https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/billing#project-spend-... That's a soft cap, not a hard cap
	▲	mips_avatar 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I spent two hours the other day trying to figure out how to manage spend on gcp, i gave up and used openrouter and cloudflare.
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There is a scheme to send gifts with a compromised anthropic key even if the limit is reached.