warning April 2026: Anthropic disabled 60 users' accounts in 15 hours. GitHub Copilot paused Pro signups. DeepSeek launched at 5× cheaper. Provider risk is now existential.
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Hard caps for LLM APIs. So one provider can't kill your product.

Drop-in SDK that wraps your existing OpenAI / Anthropic / DeepSeek client. Set hard spend caps, get automatic failover when a provider 429s or bans you, and kill any customer's access in one API call.

One line. Zero proxy. No latency tax.

// Before
const client = new OpenAI();
// After — same interface, hard caps enforced
import { wrapOpenAI } from '@simplifai/budget-guard';
const client = wrapOpenAI(new OpenAI(), {
hardCap: { daily: 10_00, perCustomer: 1_00 }, // cents
fallback: ['deepseek', 'openrouter'],
});

This already happened to real teams

Three weeks in April 2026 that changed how we think about LLM provider risk.

"Anthropic disabled 60 employees' accounts in 15 hours — no warning, no SLA, contact via Google Form."

Belo / Tom's Hardware Apr 22 2026

"Claude Code removed from $20 Pro plan — reversed only after 579-upvote HN thread and public revolt."

HN 47854477 Apr 2026

"DeepSeek v4 launched at ~5× cheaper than Opus 4.6. OpenAI raised GPT-5.5 to 2× the price. Same day."

HN 47884971 Apr 2026

Everything your LLM stack is missing

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Hard spend caps

Per API key, per customer, per model, per time window. Cap math is bit-exact deterministic — no surprises on your bill.

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Automatic failover

When OpenAI 429s, you hit a cap, or a provider bans your key — instantly route to DeepSeek, Anthropic, or OpenRouter.

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Per-customer kill-switches

Cut off any customer's LLM access in one API call. Essential for fraud prevention and metered SaaS products.

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Cost-aware routing

Route to the cheapest capable model for each call. Pricing catalog synced daily. 10× spread between providers means routing pays for itself.

speed

<50ms p99 overhead

Pre-call evaluation runs on Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects. Strong consistency per customer with no latency tax on your requests.

analytics

LLMeter integration

Telemetry exportable to LLMeter via API key. One dashboard for observability (what you spent) and enforcement (what you're allowed to spend).

Up in minutes, not weeks

1

Wrap your client

wrapOpenAI(client) — same interface, no proxy rewrite, no base URL change. Works with your existing SDK calls.

2

Set your caps

Define hard limits in cents per day / per customer / per model. Add fallback providers in priority order. Ship in the same PR.

3

Sleep at night

Next time a provider bans accounts or triples prices overnight, your product keeps running. Budget Guard routes around the problem automatically.

The missing layer in your LLM stack

Capability LLMeter / Helicone OpenRouter / Portkey Budget Guard
Cost observability ✓ partial ✓
Hard spend caps (runtime enforcement) — — ✓
Multi-provider failover — ✓ ✓
Per-customer kill-switches — — ✓
No proxy / no base URL change ✓ — ✓
Access-ban risk mitigation — partial ✓

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