A budget for your channel

Video and voice tools charge by the minute or by the character, and an agent stuck in a loop can spend a month’s money in an afternoon. A budget prevents that: each call is priced before it runs and must fit.

Ask your AI tool for the plan

I make 4 YouTube videos a month. Each has a HeyGen intro of about 30 seconds, an
ElevenLabs voiceover of about 6 minutes, a Canva thumbnail, and Claude writes the
script, title and description. My budget is $30 a month and $300 a year. Suggest
how to split it between these tools, with a daily cap and some reserve.

It suggests a split, for example HeyGen $12, ElevenLabs $6, Claude $5, Canva $2 and $5 in reserve. Set it on the console’s Policies screen, and a second person approves it before it applies.

At the limit

The call is stopped before it runs, and your AI tool is told which limit and when it resets. Or choose to have it held so you can approve the odd extra yourself.

See where the money went

The Budgets card shows what is spent and left in each limit, and what each app cost this month.

A second wall

Also set a spending cap in each provider’s own account (HeyGen credits, your ElevenLabs quota, your Claude or OpenAI limit). Keystile controls everything that goes through it; the provider’s cap covers anything done directly in their app.