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✨ Budget / Rate Limit Tiers

Define tiers with rate limits. Assign them to keys.

Claude Code Knowledge Pack7/10/2026

Overview

✨ Budget / Rate Limit Tiers

Define tiers with rate limits. Assign them to keys.

Use this to control access and budgets across a lot of keys.

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1. Create a budget

curl -L -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/budget/new' \\
-H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \\
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\
-d '{
    "budget_id": "my-test-tier",
    "rpm_limit": 0
}'

2. Assign budget to a key

curl -L -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/generate' \\
-H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \\
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\
-d '{
    "budget_id": "my-test-tier"
}'

Expected Response:

{
    "key": "sk-...",
    "budget_id": "my-test-tier",
    "litellm_budget_table": {
        "budget_id": "my-test-tier",
        "rpm_limit": 0
    }
}

3. Check if budget is enforced on key

curl -L -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions' \\
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \\
-H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-...' \\ # 👈 KEY from step 2.
-d '{
    "model": "<REPLACE_WITH_MODEL_NAME_FROM_CONFIG.YAML>",
    "messages": [
      {"role": "user", "content": "hi my email is ishaan"}
    ]
}'

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