Overview of AI Unit Budgeting in AI Agent Studio

Use AI unit budgeting to manage available AI capacity, allocate AI units to agents and agentic applications, monitor consumption, and control AI-enabled work as consumption approaches or reaches a configured budget. The Budget Allocation workspace provides a consolidated view of your current budget position. You can use the workspace to perform these:

• Configure the total AI unit budget for a budget period.
• Reserve portions of the total budget for agents and agentic applications.
• Allocate budgets to individual agents and agentic applications.
• Monitor consumption against configured budgets.
• Configure warning thresholds and recipients.
• Automatically stop new processes when an applicable budget is exhausted.
• Manually stop and resume AI-enabled work.
• Review budget and control changes.
• Analyze historical AI unit consumption.

The actual consumption of AI units is calculated to be close to the actual usage, and there might be a slight difference from real-time consumption. As a result, a small amount of additional consumption might be recorded before the system detects that an enforcement action is required.