--- title: "Your AI bill is out of control. Cloudflare can fix it now." url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-ai-bill-is-out-of-control-cloudflare-can-fix-it-now--esdn8wt96 source_url: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-gateway-spend-limits type: article source: "Cloudflare" published: 2026-06-05T13:49:02.384Z updated: 2026-06-05T13:49:28.252Z tags: ["llm", "cloudflare", "ai-gateway"] reading_time: 8 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your AI bill is out of control. Cloudflare can fix it now. **[Cloudflare](https://daily.dev/sources/cloudflare)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Cloudflare is launching spend limits in AI Gateway to help companies control runaway AI token costs. The feature lets teams set dollar-based budgets scoped by model, provider, or custom attributes like user or team, with fixed or rolling time windows. When a budget is hit, requests can be blocked or routed to a cheaper fallback model via Dynamic Routes. A closed beta also introduces identity-driven budgets using Cloudflare Access, which attaches authenticated user identity (from JWT) to every AI request — enabling per-user and per-team cost attribution without custom code. This allows policies like giving ML engineers access to frontier models while routing interns to open-source alternatives. Intelligent task-based routing to automatically select the cheapest suitable model is also in development. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [AI Gateway now gives you access to your favorite AI models, dynamic routing and more — through just one endpoint](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-gateway-now-gives-you-access-to-your-favorite-ai-models-dynamic-routing-and-more-through-just--vbzfmaxpm) · Cloudflare · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Catching rogue AI behavior with identity-aware analytics](https://daily.dev/posts/catching-rogue-ai-behavior-with-identity-aware-analytics-iqsai1pcc) · Cloudflare · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI Gateway now supports team and project spend budgets](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-gateway-now-supports-team-and-project-spend-budgets-nbkblrznf) · Vercel · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Are we ready to give AI agents the keys to the cloud? Cloudflare thinks so](https://daily.dev/posts/are-we-ready-to-give-ai-agents-the-keys-to-the-cloud-cloudflare-thinks-so-8cyuv29ee) · InfoWorld · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#cloudflare](https://daily.dev/tags/cloudflare), [#ai-gateway](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-gateway) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/your-ai-bill-is-out-of-control-cloudflare-can-fix-it-now--esdn8wt96)