Guides
Budgets vs Rate Limits: Which Control to Reach For
Both return 429, but they solve different problems. Here is a decision guide for when to use a budget cap, when to use a rate limit, and why you almost always want both.
Nemo Team
7 minPosts
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Setting Up Auto-Topup Without Surprise Bills
Auto-topup keeps your gateway from running dry mid-traffic — but done wrong it's an uncapped spend loop. Here is how to configure it with a ceiling so it helps without becoming a runaway.
Nemo Team
7 min
Guides
The Four Ceilings Every LLM Request Passes
Before an LLM call leaves the gateway it clears four independent limits: credit balance, budget cap, rate limit, and guardrails. Here is what each one checks and why they are separate.
Nemo Team
8 min
Guides
How to Set Hard Spend Limits on Your LLM Gateway
A runaway agent or leaked key can burn thousands in hours. Here is how hard budget caps, soft alerts, and reserve-and-settle stop the bleeding on an LLM gateway — before the invoice arrives.
Nemo Team
9 min
Product
An LLM Gateway for Coding Agents
Coding agents burst into hundreds of model calls per task across many tools. Here is how a gateway gives them budgets, fallback, and per-task attribution so an autonomous loop can't run up a surprise bill.
Nemo Team
8 min