Agent Cost Governance AI Agents

Tools for tracking, budgeting, and controlling token/API costs for AI agents and LLMs. Includes cost estimation, budget enforcement, spend monitoring, and waste detection. Does NOT include general cloud cost management, FinOps platforms without agent-specific functionality, or pricing calculators for end users.

There are 58 agent cost governance agents tracked. The highest-rated is valmi-io/value at 44/100 with 169 stars.

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#	Agent	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	valmi-io/value ⚡ "Value" - https://value.valmi.io . Valmi Value is Outcome-based billing...	44	Emerging	169	Python
2	aptible/unpage Unpage is the open source framework for building SRE agents with...	43	Emerging	39	Python
3	Elijas/token-throttle Multi-resource rate limiting for LLM APIs. Reserve tokens before you call,...	40	Emerging	17	Python
4	Harshit-J004/toolguard Pytest-style reliability testing for AI agent tool chains. Catches...	38	Emerging	5	Python
5	dipampaul17/AgentGuard Real-time guardrail that shows token spend & kills runaway LLM/agent loops.	37	Emerging	157	JavaScript
6	2001Haru/TokenWaster The Most Useless EVER agent assistant in the Human History. Always trying to...	37	Emerging	3	Python
7	ratelworks/driftcheck Audit the gap between what you declared and what you locked....	36	Emerging	1	Go
8	miunasu/PersistenceMonitor A Windows persistence mechanism monitoring tool designed for malware...	35	Emerging	6	Python
9	neuron-core/tokenizer High-Performance Tokenizer implementation in PHP.	35	Emerging	6	PHP
10	driftbase-labs/driftbase-python Local-first behavioral drift monitoring for AI agents. One decorator,...	34	Emerging	1	Python
11	Smart-AI-Memory/attune-ai AI-powered developer workflows with cost optimization and multi-agent orchestration	34	Emerging	1	Python
12	steadwing/openalerts An alerting layer for agentic frameworks	34	Emerging	29	Python
13	govynAI/govyn Governance proxy for AI agents — per-agent budgets, cost tracking, loop...	33	Emerging	3	TypeScript
14	LuciferForge/ai-cost-guard Budget enforcement for LLM applications. Hard spending limits, per-model...	25	Experimental	1	Python
15	b-franken/azure-finops-agent Azure FinOps agent that finds waste, calculates savings, and generates cost...	23	Experimental	1	Python
16	sumant1122/agentlog AgentLog is a lightweight event bus for AI agents built on append-only JSONL...	23	Experimental	2	Go
17	babuClawd/agent-resource-monitor Production-grade resource monitoring API for AI agents on Solana. Track...	23	Experimental	—	TypeScript
18	joy7758/token-governor Governance layer for runtime budget, policy, and trade-off control in AI systems.	22	Experimental	1	Python
19	capricornxl/driftguard DriftGuard is a non-intrusive AI Agent behavior degradation monitoring...	22	Experimental	—	Go
20	Siddhant-K-code/ThinkBudget Adaptive inference budget controller - caps how much your LLM thinks per...	22	Experimental	—	Python
21	kogunlowo123/ai-finops-optimization-agent Multi-cloud FinOps optimization agent — cost anomaly detection, rightsizing...	22	Experimental	—	Python
22	codexstar69/pi-rtk Token Killer for Pi — reduce LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands	22	Experimental	—	TypeScript
23	kitfunso/token-discipline Task-aware token budgeting for AI agents.	22	Experimental	—	Python
24	YanLukashin/compute-cfo Track and control LLM inference costs. Drop-in SDK for OpenAI & Anthropic....	22	Experimental	—	Python
25	crithstudio-hash/agent-bill See exactly what your agent run costs. One function. Zero deps. Bundled...	22	Experimental	—	Python
26	udhaykumarbala/agent-cost-guard Spending limits for AI agents. 3 lines of code. Zero dependencies.	22	Experimental	—	TypeScript
27	JSLEEKR/drift-guard Quality guardian for AI coding agents. Detect context drift, preserve...	22	Experimental	—	TypeScript
28	andausman/agentmetrics Real-time cost visibility & optimization for AI agents.	22	Experimental	—	JavaScript
29	lcbootyneet/NanoStorage 🗜️ Optimize LocalStorage with native GZIP compression to store 10x more...	21	Experimental	—	TypeScript
30	blastoiseclawd-hash/token-optimizer Reduce LLM API costs by 60-80% through intelligent context pruning,...	21	Experimental	—	JavaScript
31	natiixnt/ContextBudget a tool that reduces token usage and request waste in coding-agent workflows...	21	Experimental	—	Python
32	cgorricho/token-light-code-intensive Token-Light, Code-Intensive (TLCI) — A design philosophy for AI agent...	21	Experimental	—	—
33	Moiz-Ali-Moomin/mcp-cloud-finops-ai-agent Production-grade Cloud FinOps AI control plane that continuously monitors...	21	Experimental	—	Python
34	Marven11/BudgetYourToken Coding agents cut their own budgets by implementing context cache algorithm	21	Experimental	—	Python
35	Microck/spikehound Five agents fan out the moment an Azure cost alert fires. They investigate...	21	Experimental	—	C#
36	Throttle-md/spec THROTTLE.md — Open standard for AI agent rate limiting and cost control....	21	Experimental	—	HTML
37	mariusfit/llm-token-budget Token budget manager for LLM apps — track usage, enforce limits, estimate...	21	Experimental	—	JavaScript
38	yksanjo/agent-token-budget AI Agent token budget - Component of the enterprise AI agent framework for...	21	Experimental	—	TypeScript
39	bmdhodl/agent47 Your AI agent just burned $200. AgentGuard stops it at $5. Runtime cost...	21	Experimental	—	Python
40	NeoSkillFactory/aws-cost-optimizer Automatically analyzes AWS CloudFormation templates and identifies unused or...	21	Experimental	—	HTML
41	vinaybudideti/agentfuse Intelligent LLM agent cost optimization runtime.	21	Experimental	—	Python
42	jarosser06/drift Quality assurance for AI-augmented codebases - validates project structure...	20	Experimental	1	Python
43	SynStar-Joey/ai-cost-optimizer Optimize AI model costs and automatically switch between models for better...	20	Experimental	1	Python
44	NeoSkillFactory/token-cost-optimizer Monitors token usage in real-time and suggests cost-effective model...	19	Experimental	—	JavaScript
45	alyssadata/alyssadata AI safety researcher, developing systematic approaches to detecting and...	19	Experimental	2	—
46	WDZ-Dev/agent-ledger Know what your agents cost. Real-time cost tracking, budget enforcement, and...	18	Experimental	2	Go
47	joy7758/agent-evidence Capture autonomous agent execution as verifiable semantic events with JSONL,...	15	Experimental	1	Python
48	Tarunjit45/agentwatch I built AgentWatch to solve a problem I had: AI agents burning tokens and...	14	Experimental	4	Python
49	u4ma-kev/tokenfence-examples Real-world examples for TokenFence — the cost circuit breaker for AI agents	14	Experimental	—	Python
50	caum-systems/caum-agent-waste-report-2026 State of AI Agent Waste 2026 — Analysis of 2,615,295 real steps. Failed...	14	Experimental	—	—
51	u4ma-kev/tokenfence-blog TokenFence blog — articles on AI agent cost control and budget management	14	Experimental	—	—
52	AgentAutopsy/agent-graveyard 8 real ways your AI agent team will burn your money. Free PDF guide from a...	14	Experimental	—	—
53	yuvrajsinganand-cmd/atlasburn Runtime protection layer for AI agents prevents silent cost explosions in real-time.	14	Experimental	—	TypeScript
54	arieradle/anthropic-cost-control Example showing how to control Anthropic API costs using the shekel Python library	13	Experimental	—	Python
55	Shree85/ai-tokens 🧮 Estimate and manage AI token costs easily with this lightweight PHP...	13	Experimental	—	Java
56	Tanmay-24/AgentWatch Real time behaviora drift detection for agentic AI systems	13	Experimental	—	Python
57	yurukusa/ai-earns-its-keep Can an AI pay for itself? Live P&L tracker for an autonomous AI agent experiment.	13	Experimental	—	HTML
58	arieradle/langgraph-agent-budget Example showing how to enforce LLM budgets on LangGraph agents using the...	11	Experimental	—	Python