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 60 agent cost governance agents tracked. The highest-rated is aptible/unpage at 40/100 with 39 stars.

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#	Agent	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	aptible/unpage Unpage is the open source framework for building SRE agents with...	40	Emerging	39	Python
2	driftbase-labs/driftbase-python Local-first behavioral drift monitoring for AI agents. One decorator,...	40	Emerging	1	Python
3	Harshit-J004/toolguard Pytest-style reliability testing for AI agent tool chains. Catches...	38	Emerging	5	Python
4	valmi-io/value ⚡ "Value" - https://value.valmi.io . Valmi Value is Outcome-based billing...	37	Emerging	169	Python
5	govynAI/govyn Governance proxy for AI agents — per-agent budgets, cost tracking, loop...	37	Emerging	3	TypeScript
6	2001Haru/TokenWaster The Most Useless EVER agent assistant in the Human History. Always trying to...	37	Emerging	3	Python
7	Elijas/token-throttle Multi-resource rate limiting for LLM APIs. Reserve tokens before you call,...	37	Emerging	17	Python
8	ratelworks/driftcheck Audit the gap between what you declared and what you locked....	36	Emerging	1	Go
9	steadwing/openalerts An alerting layer for agentic frameworks	35	Emerging	29	Python
10	Smart-AI-Memory/attune-ai AI-powered developer workflows with cost optimization and multi-agent orchestration	35	Emerging	1	Python
11	miunasu/PersistenceMonitor A Windows persistence mechanism monitoring tool designed for malware...	33	Emerging	6	Python
12	dipampaul17/AgentGuard Real-time guardrail that shows token spend & kills runaway LLM/agent loops.	31	Emerging	157	JavaScript
13	neuron-core/tokenizer High-Performance Tokenizer implementation in PHP.	29	Experimental	6	PHP
14	babuClawd/agent-resource-monitor Production-grade resource monitoring API for AI agents on Solana. Track...	24	Experimental	—	TypeScript
15	sumant1122/agentlog AgentLog is a lightweight event bus for AI agents built on append-only JSONL...	24	Experimental	2	Go
16	b-franken/azure-finops-agent Azure FinOps agent that finds waste, calculates savings, and generates cost...	23	Experimental	1	Python
17	SynStar-Joey/ai-cost-optimizer Optimize AI model costs and automatically switch between models for better...	23	Experimental	1	Python
18	LuciferForge/ai-cost-guard Budget enforcement for LLM applications. Hard spending limits, per-model...	23	Experimental	1	Python
19	SynStar-Joey/llm-cost-calculator Simple tool to estimate AI API costs when using large language models.	23	Experimental	1	Python
20	joy7758/token-governor Governance layer for runtime budget, policy, and trade-off control in AI systems.	23	Experimental	1	Python
21	capricornxl/driftguard DriftGuard is a non-intrusive AI Agent behavior degradation monitoring...	22	Experimental	—	Go
22	NeoSkillFactory/token-cost-optimizer Monitors token usage in real-time and suggests cost-effective model...	22	Experimental	—	JavaScript
23	Throttle-md/spec THROTTLE.md — Open standard for AI agent rate limiting and cost control....	22	Experimental	—	HTML
24	NeoSkillFactory/aws-cost-optimizer Automatically analyzes AWS CloudFormation templates and identifies unused or...	22	Experimental	—	HTML
25	natiixnt/ContextBudget a tool that reduces token usage and request waste in coding-agent workflows...	22	Experimental	—	Python
26	Moiz-Ali-Moomin/mcp-cloud-finops-ai-agent Production-grade Cloud FinOps AI control plane that continuously monitors...	22	Experimental	—	Python
27	lcbootyneet/NanoStorage 🗜️ Optimize LocalStorage with native GZIP compression to store 10x more...	22	Experimental	—	TypeScript
28	bmdhodl/agent47 Your AI agent just burned $200. AgentGuard stops it at $5. Runtime cost...	22	Experimental	—	Python
29	vinaybudideti/agentfuse Intelligent LLM agent cost optimization runtime.	22	Experimental	—	Python
30	Siddhant-K-code/ThinkBudget Adaptive inference budget controller - caps how much your LLM thinks per...	22	Experimental	—	Python
31	kogunlowo123/ai-finops-optimization-agent Multi-cloud FinOps optimization agent — cost anomaly detection, rightsizing...	22	Experimental	—	Python
32	codexstar69/pi-rtk Token Killer for Pi — reduce LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands	22	Experimental	—	TypeScript
33	kitfunso/token-discipline Task-aware token budgeting for AI agents.	22	Experimental	—	Python
34	akunba3970/llm-cost-calculator Estimate token usage and API costs for large language models to help...	22	Experimental	—	Python
35	YanLukashin/compute-cfo Track and control LLM inference costs. Drop-in SDK for OpenAI & Anthropic....	22	Experimental	—	Python
36	crithstudio-hash/agent-bill See exactly what your agent run costs. One function. Zero deps. Bundled...	22	Experimental	—	Python
37	udhaykumarbala/agent-cost-guard Spending limits for AI agents. 3 lines of code. Zero dependencies.	22	Experimental	—	TypeScript
38	JSLEEKR/drift-guard Quality guardian for AI coding agents. Detect context drift, preserve...	22	Experimental	—	TypeScript
39	andausman/agentmetrics Real-time cost visibility & optimization for AI agents.	22	Experimental	—	JavaScript
40	yksanjo/agent-token-budget AI Agent token budget - Component of the enterprise AI agent framework for...	19	Experimental	—	TypeScript
41	blastoiseclawd-hash/token-optimizer Reduce LLM API costs by 60-80% through intelligent context pruning,...	19	Experimental	—	JavaScript
42	mariusfit/llm-token-budget Token budget manager for LLM apps — track usage, enforce limits, estimate...	19	Experimental	—	JavaScript
43	Marven11/BudgetYourToken Coding agents cut their own budgets by implementing context cache algorithm	19	Experimental	—	Python
44	Microck/spikehound Five agents fan out the moment an Azure cost alert fires. They investigate...	19	Experimental	—	C#
45	cgorricho/token-light-code-intensive Token-Light, Code-Intensive (TLCI) — A design philosophy for AI agent...	19	Experimental	—	—
46	jarosser06/drift Quality assurance for AI-augmented codebases - validates project structure...	16	Experimental	1	Python
47	WDZ-Dev/agent-ledger Know what your agents cost. Real-time cost tracking, budget enforcement, and...	16	Experimental	2	Go
48	joy7758/agent-evidence Capture autonomous agent execution as verifiable semantic events with JSONL,...	15	Experimental	1	Python
49	Shree85/ai-tokens 🧮 Estimate and manage AI token costs easily with this lightweight PHP...	14	Experimental	—	Java
50	arieradle/langgraph-agent-budget Example showing how to enforce LLM budgets on LangGraph agents using the...	14	Experimental	—	Python
51	AgentAutopsy/agent-graveyard 8 real ways your AI agent team will burn your money. Free PDF guide from a...	14	Experimental	—	—
52	Tarunjit45/agentwatch I built AgentWatch to solve a problem I had: AI agents burning tokens and...	14	Experimental	4	Python
53	yurukusa/ai-earns-its-keep Can an AI pay for itself? Live P&L tracker for an autonomous AI agent experiment.	14	Experimental	—	HTML
54	arieradle/anthropic-cost-control Example showing how to control Anthropic API costs using the shekel Python library	14	Experimental	—	Python
55	u4ma-kev/tokenfence-examples Real-world examples for TokenFence — the cost circuit breaker for AI agents	14	Experimental	—	Python
56	caum-systems/caum-agent-waste-report-2026 State of AI Agent Waste 2026 — Analysis of 2,615,295 real steps. Failed...	14	Experimental	—	—
57	u4ma-kev/tokenfence-blog TokenFence blog — articles on AI agent cost control and budget management	14	Experimental	—	—
58	yuvrajsinganand-cmd/atlasburn Runtime protection layer for AI agents prevents silent cost explosions in real-time.	14	Experimental	—	TypeScript
59	alyssadata/alyssadata AI safety researcher, developing systematic approaches to detecting and...	13	Experimental	2	—
60	Tanmay-24/AgentWatch Real time behaviora drift detection for agentic AI systems	11	Experimental	—	Python