The Silent Budget Killer: How AI Agents Drain Your Infrastructure Costs (And How to Stop It)

AI agents can drain infrastructure costs due to unpredictable behavior, such as token overflow, nested API calls, and hallucination loops. To manage costs, identify where money is going, set up tracking and alerts, and instrument every agent decision. This requires baking cost management into the agent logic itself. Engineers should use a cost-aware API decision-making approach to prevent unexpected expenses.