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orq.ai gives you multiple layers of budget control so you can manage AI spending at every level of your organization: across the whole workspace, per API key, and per individual user.

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Credits

Credits are the primary spending balance for your workspace. All model calls made through orq.ai consume credits based on token usage and model pricing. When your balance reaches zero, requests are blocked until credits are added. Manage your credits, configure auto top-up, and download invoices from the AI Router tab in orq.ai Studio:

AI Router credits

Manage credits, payment methods, auto top-up, and transaction history from the AI Router tab in orq.ai Studio.

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API Key Limits

Each API key can have optional spending limits to control how much a specific integration, team, or environment can consume. Limits reset on a configurable schedule. Three types of limit are available per key:
  • Cost Limit: a maximum spend in USD per reset period. Requests are rejected with a 429 once the limit is reached.
  • Token Limit: a maximum number of tokens per reset period.
  • Requests/Min: a fixed rate cap on requests per minute, independent of the reset period.
The Reset Limit Period (daily, weekly, or monthly) applies to Cost and Token limits. Requests/Min is always a rolling 60-second window.

API Key limits

Configure cost, token, and rate limits when creating or editing an API key in the AI Router.

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Identity Budgets

Identities represent individual users or entities making requests through your application. You can assign a budget to each identity to cap how much they can spend over a given period, making it easy to enforce per-user spending policies. Budget periods available: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly.

Identity budgets

Set and manage per-identity budgets from the Identities section in orq.ai Studio.