An armed cap refuses. A notice only describes it.
Start freeFree is cardless.
Works with the providers you already call:
Refused before it reaches your provider.
Set a ceiling on a budget — your whole workspace, or one API key. The hard stop enforces at both, live on the next request.
The 402 contract
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Admission answers it in the request path. No call, no tokens, no cost.
Run envelopes
Per budget — your whole workspace, or one key — instant, no dollar ceiling, live on every plan.
The 402 contract
Four things happen on every call:
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Every call is priced as it happens, and booked to the key that made it.
Point one base URL at Recovea and the meter starts. Every call is costed against a frozen price list. Your keys, your provider accounts and your code stay unchanged.
Free is cardless.
Sample month
An armed cap sits in the request path, so the call that would cross it is refused before it is forwarded.
Set a ceiling and arm it. The next call over the line is refused with a 402 your code can branch on. The kill-switch is the second brake, on every plan.
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A Recovea Breaker is a budget one run carries: $240.00. It trips at that line, and stays tripped until a person starts a new run.
Only the calls that name a run in a header carry a Breaker. It tightens the caps above it, never loosens them, and stops that run, not your key and not the runs beside it.
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Every call writes a receipt into a hash-linked chain that anyone can check without trusting us.
A receipt is written for every call, on every plan, Free included. The chain is published with its recipe, so you can export it and re-derive every hash in your own browser.
A request already in flight finishes. A cap is a gate, not a to-the-penny ceiling.
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.
One line — the base URL. The gateway serves the wire format your client already calls.
14-day free trial, card required. Free is cardless.
Unlimited seats on every plan.