burnban
Meter and cap AI agent spend on your own machine
burnban launched on July 15, 2026 with 1 votes.
What it does
burnban is the local instrument for AI agent spend. One binary sits in the request path, meters every token, and caps budgets before they blow instead of after. Nothing leaves your machine, so there is no dashboard to log into and no traffic to hand over. It also prices your flat-rate plan against real metered rates, so you finally see what those tokens are worth. Open source and MIT licensed. Sync and team budgets are next; the waitlist at burnban.dev sees them first.
Track supported AI-agent usage locally and enforce budgets on provider-bound API traffic. Free, open source, no account, and no Burnban cloud in the request path.
Burnban reads supported agent logs on your machine, meters supported API traffic live, and enforces budgets before forwarding. No signup. No telemetry. No Burnban cloud in the request path. One maintainer machine. 30 days. Priced at public API list rates. Run burnban subsidy --share and get your number. Burnban puts supported agent usage and enforceable API limits in one local dashboard. Logs provide visibility. Traffic routed through Burnban can be blocked. Read supported agent histories in place. See usage by model, agent, and time window without a proxy, account, or upload. Route supported provider-bound traffic through the local meter. Keep a ledger and enforce daily, weekly, monthly,…from burnban.dev
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