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Setting Team Budgets

Pre-Requisites

  • You must set up a Postgres database (e.g. Supabase, Neon, etc.)

Default Budget for Auto-Generated JWT Teams

When using JWT authentication with team_id_upsert: true, you can automatically assign a default budget to any newly created team.

This is configured in default_team_settings in your config.yaml.

Example:

# in your config.yaml

litellm_jwtauth:
  team_id_upsert: true
  team_id_jwt_field: "team_id"
  # ... other jwt settings

litellm_settings:
  default_team_settings: 
    - team_id: "default-settings"
      max_budget: 100.0

Track spend, set budgets for your Internal Team

Setting Monthly Team Budgets

1. Create a team

  • Set max_budget=000000001 ($ value the team is allowed to spend)
  • Set budget_duration="1d" (How frequently the budget should update)

Create a new team and set max_budget and budget_duration

curl -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/team/new' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{
            "team_alias": "QA Prod Bot", 
            "max_budget": 0.000000001, 
            "budget_duration": "1d"
        }' 

Response

{
 "team_alias": "QA Prod Bot",
 "team_id": "de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a",
 "max_budget": 0.0001,
 "budget_duration": "1d",
 "budget_reset_at": "2024-06-14T22:48:36.594000Z"
}  

Possible values for budget_duration

budget_duration When Budget will reset
budget_duration="1s" every 1 second
budget_duration="1m" every 1 min
budget_duration="1h" every 1 hour
budget_duration="1d" every 1 day
budget_duration="30d" every 1 month

2. Create a key for the team

Create a key for Team=QA Prod Bot and team_id="de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a" from Step 1

💡 The Budget for Team="QA Prod Bot" budget will apply to this team

curl -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/generate' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{"team_id": "de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a"}'

Response

{"team_id":"de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a", "key":"sk-5qtncoYjzRcxMM4bDRktNQ"}

3. Test It

Use the key from step 2 and run this Request twice

curl -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/chat/completions' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-mso-JSykEGri86KyOvgxBw' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d ' {
           "model": "llama3",
           "messages": [
             {
               "role": "user",
               "content": "hi"
             }
           ]
         }'

On the 2nd response - expect to see the following exception

{
 "error": {
   "message": "Budget has been exceeded! Current cost: 3.5e-06, Max budget: 1e-09",
   "type": "auth_error",
   "param": null,
   "code": 400
 }
}

Advanced

Prometheus metrics for remaining_budget

More info about Prometheus metrics here

You'll need the following in your proxy config.yaml

litellm_settings:
  success_callback: ["prometheus"]
  failure_callback: ["prometheus"]

Expect to see this metric on prometheus to track the Remaining Budget for the team

litellm_remaining_team_budget_metric{team_alias="QA Prod Bot",team_id="de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a"} 9.699999999999992e-06