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Cost Tracking

swm tracks GPU spending locally in a SQLite database, with per-session granularity and provider billing reconciliation.

How it works

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Every pod create, pod start, pod stop, and pod terminate automatically records a billing session with the GPU’s hourly rate and timestamps.

Commands

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Terminal window
swm costs live                        # running cost of active pods
swm costs summary --period week       # spending breakdown
swm costs log -n 20                   # session-by-session log
swm costs reconcile -p runpod         # compare against provider charges

Budgets

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Set spending limits with alerts:

Terminal window
swm costs budget set 100 --scope global --period monthly
swm costs budget set 50 --scope provider:runpod --period weekly
swm costs budget show

Budgets are advisory — they warn at 80% and 100% thresholds but don’t block operations.

Reconciliation

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swm costs reconcile queries actual provider billing APIs and compares against local estimates:

  • RunPod: Account balance, lifetime spend, per-GPU-type usage
  • Vast.ai: Invoice history with service filters

Data location

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Cost data is stored at ~/.config/swm/costs.db (SQLite with WAL mode).