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title: "Product | Recovea"
description: "Recovea sits in the path of your provider calls: metered as they pass, capped before they forward, receipted when they return."
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# In the path.

Metered as they pass. Capped before they forward. Receipted when they return.

[Start free](https://platform.recovea.ai/signup)

Receipt

Modelgpt-4.1

Tokens in1,200

Tokens out340

Cost$0.004180

Price listrpl-2026-06-01

Basismeasured

One base URL. Your own provider keys.

Setup

## Live in about ten minutes.

1. Create a workspace keyShown once, stored hashed.
2. Connect your provider keyOpenAI or Anthropic, probed then sealed.
3. Point your base URL at RecoveaOne line in your existing client.

[Quickstart](https://recovea.ai/docs/quickstart/)

The request path

## Admission runs before your provider does.

1. AuthenticateUnknown key, 401.
2. ThrottleOver your limit, 429.
3. CapArmed cap, 402. Nothing forwards.
4. ForwardUnsealed in memory.
5. PriceAgainst a frozen price list.
6. ReceiptOne row, hash-chained.

Exact contract in [the caps documentation](https://recovea.ai/docs/products/cap/).

Meter

### Cost lands as the call returns.

Priced and attributed by key, project and route. Nothing to instrument.

ScopeWorkspace

Monthly cap150.00

Spent31.05

Kill switch

ArmedOff

Spend, as it happens.

Caps

### A cap answers the request itself.

Alerts are not caps. Arm a ceiling; admission refuses over it, before your provider is contacted.

Monthly cap150.00

At the cap

Block (402)Pause (429 with Retry-After)

Both answer error.code: budget_exceeded. Branch on the code, not the status.

- **Status**
  402
  429 with Retry-After
- **Error type**
  insufficient_quota
  rate_limit_error
- **Error code**
  budget_exceeded

Armed, then refused.

Receipts

### One row you can check without us.

Every call writes a hash-chained receipt. Re-derive it yourself. One row per request.

[See the proof](https://recovea.ai/proof/)

status402 Payment Requiredcontract

messageMonthly budget reached. Traffic resumes at reset, or raise the cap.prose

typeinsufficient_quotacontract

paramnull

codebudget_exceededcontract

## The limits, said plainly.

Designed to fail open: if the gateway degrades, traffic goes straight to your provider. The only stop is a cap you armed.

Your provider keys stay yours: sealed, bound to your workspace, never written to a log.

## See it on your own traffic.

[Start free](https://platform.recovea.ai/signup)

Free is cardless.