# spendctl (spendctl.dev)

Sidecar that enforces spend budgets, approvals and receipts for an agent's HTTP 402 payments before any wallet signs.

- Atlas card: https://inite.ai/en/atlas/spendctl.dev
- Site: https://spendctl.dev
- For: Teams running AI agents that pay for APIs over HTTP 402 and need budgets, approvals and receipts.
- Categories: finance
- Use not measured/100 · alive 100/100

## Used for

- Enforce per-request and daily spend budgets on agent API payments
- Hold over-budget agent payments for a human to approve
- Export payment receipts with transaction hashes for expense reports

## Price

- from 19 USD/month, free plan (read 2026-10-29 on https://spendctl.dev/#pricing)

## For developers

- MCP server: dev.spendctl/spendctl (namespace; open on 2026-10-29, 6 tools)
- Read 2026-10-29

## MCP server, measured daily

Server: https://mcp.spendctl.dev/mcp, checked every day since 2026-10-29 (4 checks).

- Answered: measuring, 4 daily checks so far
- Median first answer: 331 ms
- Sign-in: none
- Context its tool definitions take: about 1652 tokens (6 tools)
- Tool definitions: A, 100/100
- Warning "destructive_denied": sandbox_pay
- Warning "open_writes": sandbox_create, sandbox_pay
- Method: https://inite.ai/en/atlas/mcp/report

## Your data

- Certifications stated: none
- Read 2026-10-29

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