Setting Team Budgets
Pre-Requisites
- You must set up a Postgres database (e.g. Supabase, Neon, etc.)
- To enable team member rate limits, set the environment variable EXPERIMENTAL_MULTI_INSTANCE_RATE_LIMITING=truebefore starting the proxy server. Without this, team member rate limits will not be enforced.
Default Budget for Auto-Generated JWT Teams​
When using JWT authentication with team_id_upsert: true, you can automatically assign a default budget to any newly created team.
This is configured in default_team_settings in your config.yaml.
Example:
# in your config.yaml
litellm_jwtauth:
  team_id_upsert: true
  team_id_jwt_field: "team_id"
  # ... other jwt settings
litellm_settings:
  default_team_settings: 
    - team_id: "default-settings"
      max_budget: 100.0
Track spend, set budgets for your Internal Team
Setting Monthly Team Budgets​
1. Create a team​
- Set max_budget=000000001($ value the team is allowed to spend)
- Set budget_duration="1d"(How frequently the budget should update)
- API
- Admin UI
Create a new team and set max_budget and budget_duration
curl -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/team/new' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{
            "team_alias": "QA Prod Bot", 
            "max_budget": 0.000000001, 
            "budget_duration": "1d"
        }' 
Response
{
 "team_alias": "QA Prod Bot",
 "team_id": "de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a",
 "max_budget": 0.0001,
 "budget_duration": "1d",
 "budget_reset_at": "2024-06-14T22:48:36.594000Z"
}  

Possible values for budget_duration
| budget_duration | When Budget will reset | 
|---|---|
| budget_duration="1s" | every 1 second | 
| budget_duration="1m" | every 1 min | 
| budget_duration="1h" | every 1 hour | 
| budget_duration="1d" | every 1 day | 
| budget_duration="30d" | every 1 month | 
2. Create a key for the team​
Create a key for Team=QA Prod Bot and team_id="de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a" from Step 1
- API
- Admin UI
💡 The Budget for Team="QA Prod Bot" budget will apply to this team
curl -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/generate' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{"team_id": "de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a"}'
Response
{"team_id":"de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a", "key":"sk-5qtncoYjzRcxMM4bDRktNQ"}

3. Test It​
Use the key from step 2 and run this Request twice
- API
- Admin UI
curl -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/chat/completions' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-mso-JSykEGri86KyOvgxBw' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d ' {
           "model": "llama3",
           "messages": [
             {
               "role": "user",
               "content": "hi"
             }
           ]
         }'
On the 2nd response - expect to see the following exception
{
 "error": {
   "message": "Budget has been exceeded! Current cost: 3.5e-06, Max budget: 1e-09",
   "type": "auth_error",
   "param": null,
   "code": 400
 }
}

Advanced​
Prometheus metrics for remaining_budget​
More info about Prometheus metrics here
You'll need the following in your proxy config.yaml
litellm_settings:
  success_callback: ["prometheus"]
  failure_callback: ["prometheus"]
Expect to see this metric on prometheus to track the Remaining Budget for the team
litellm_remaining_team_budget_metric{team_alias="QA Prod Bot",team_id="de35b29e-6ca8-4f47-b804-2b79d07aa99a"} 9.699999999999992e-06