Spend Management

Coder provides usage reporting for Coder Agents and enforces spend through AI Gateway budgets on release 2.36.

Native chat usage limits

As of release 2.36, native chat usage limits are no longer configurable or enforced. Coder does not check previously configured values when processing chat messages. Values configured before upgrading remain stored, have no effect, and are not migrated to AI Gateway budgets.

To limit spend, configure AI Gateway budgets. They are the only enforcement mechanism.

AI Gateway budgets

AI Gateway budgets cap each user's AI Gateway spend, including Coder Agents chats, over a monthly period.

• Set a group budget from the group's settings page.
• When a user belongs to several budgeted groups, the deployment budget policy selects the applicable group. The default policy selects the highest budget.
• A per-user override takes priority over group budgets.

Budget controls require a license that includes AI Gateway. Existing native usage-limit values and recorded spend are not migrated when you configure a budget.

The API reference documents how to get, upsert, and delete a group budget.

The Agents page shows the signed-in user's current AI Gateway spend and budget when AI Gateway is available.

Spend visibility

Navigate to Agents > Settings > Manage Agents > Spend to view usage-only reporting for deployment-wide Coder Agents chat costs.

The top-level table includes total cost, message and chat counts, and token usage for each user. It supports date range filtering, search, and pagination.

Select a user to view summary cards and per-model and per-chat breakdowns. The Spend page does not configure native usage limits or AI Gateway budgets.