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Cost & Budgets

Synth can track provider usage and enforce budgets. Start with simple guardrails.

Where To Look​

  • Analytics: provider, model, agent, and recent call usage
  • Budget: daily, weekly, and monthly limits
  • Settings -> Models: per-agent model choices

Cheap First Workflow​

  1. Use synth_search when you only need pages.
  2. Use synth_search before coding tasks.
  3. Let the connected agent synthesize from retrieved evidence.
  4. Keep background lint off until you choose a budget.

Budget Tips​

  • Put extraction on an accurate model.
  • Use Explore, REST search, or MCP search/read for provider-free retrieval.
  • Let the connected coding agent perform synthesis using the evidence packet.
  • Limit large ingests until the provider setup is proven.
  • Use watchers with focused files.rules so large repos do not ingest low-signal files.

Before locking production defaults, test extraction and linking with your own sources and check the resulting knowledge quality, latency, and usage cost.

API​

Budget and usage APIs live under /api/usage/*, /api/analytics/*, and /api/budget/*.

Use the UI first. Use APIs for reporting once the team workflow is stable.