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OpenAI API costs can spiral when agents run wild. Here’s how to set spend limits, enable hard caps, and avoid surprise AI bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OpenAI API costs can spiral when agents run wild. Here’s how to set spend limits, enable hard caps, and avoid surprise AI bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sawconcepts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}