# How do you handle agent spend and runaway tool calls?

**URL:** <https://community.crewai.com/t/how-do-you-handle-agent-spend-and-runaway-tool-calls/7744>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [August 23, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/how-do-you-handle-agent-spend-and-runaway-tool-calls/7744 "2026-08-23T19:49:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Debo\_Jolaosho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Debo\_Jolaosho](https://community.crewai.com/u/Debo_Jolaosho)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/how-do-you-handle-agent-spend-and-runaway-tool-calls/7744/1 "2026-08-23T19:49:53Z")

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Quick question for people running CrewAI agents in real workflows:

How do you control costs when agents can call tools or paid APIs?

Especially:

- per-agent budgets
- hard stops if something loops
- visibility into what each agent spent

Right now is it mostly manual monitoring, provider limits, or do you have actual controls set up?

Want to hear what’s working in practice.

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**Author:** ![beesbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9c0ed/32.png) [@beesbot](https://community.crewai.com/u/beesbot)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 2:42pm UTC](https://community.crewai.com/t/how-do-you-handle-agent-spend-and-runaway-tool-calls/7744/2 "2026-10-14T14:42:32Z")

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