Set Up Cost Budgets

Set budgets

Global monthly budget

swm costs budget set 200 --scope global --period monthly

Per-provider weekly budget

swm costs budget set 50 --scope provider:runpod --period weekly

Per-pod budget

swm costs budget set 20 --scope pod:abc123 --period total

Monitor spending

swm costs budget show       # progress bars for all budgets
swm costs live              # real-time active pod costs
swm costs summary --period month

Reconcile with provider charges

swm costs reconcile -p runpod

Compares your local tracking against the actual RunPod or Vast.ai billing API.

Combine with lifecycle guard

For automatic cost control, pair budgets with the lifecycle guard:

swm guard defaults --mode auto-down --idle-timeout 30

This ensures idle pods are terminated automatically, keeping spending within budget.