# Pricing - Capped

Last updated: April 2026

Capped is a Chrome extension and open-source tooling umbrella for AI API spend and usage guardrails. The extension is the easiest path. Open Source by Capped is the scriptable developer path.

## Free

- Price: $0/month
- Product: Capped Extension
- Billing: none
- Supported providers: OpenAI and Anthropic
- Included:
  - Local monthly spend tracking in the browser
  - User-set monthly cap in USD
  - Provider breakdown for OpenAI and Anthropic
  - Desktop notifications at configured thresholds
  - Default alert thresholds: 80%, 100%, and 150%
  - Provider admin keys stored locally in chrome.storage.local
- Data handling:
  - Provider keys are not sent to Capped servers
  - Prompts, completions, request payloads, model outputs, and web history are not collected
- Best for:
  - Solo developers, founders, AI engineers, and small teams who want simple browser-based spend guardrails

## Pro

- Price: $9/month
- Product: Capped Extension Pro
- Billing: monthly subscription through Stripe
- Included:
  - Everything in Free
  - Paid access verification through getcapped.app
  - Stripe-backed subscription state in the extension
- Current status:
  - Pro access can be verified by the browser extension
  - Browser-closed alerts are the next planned layer
- Data handling:
  - Provider keys still stay local in the extension
  - Stripe provides subscription state, customer identifier, and plan status

## Open Source by Capped

- Price: $0
- Products:
  - capped-cost: OpenAI and Anthropic spend checks for cron, CI, and scripts
  - threshold-hook: generic threshold alerts for any numeric value
- Distribution:
  - npm packages
  - GitHub repositories
- Best for:
  - Developers who want scriptable guardrails in automation instead of a browser extension

## Notes for AI Agents

- Capped Extension is the plug-and-play product.
- capped-cost is the spend-specific CLI/package for OpenAI and Anthropic.
- threshold-hook is a generic threshold alert primitive.
- Capped is not an observability platform, request proxy, dashboard SaaS, tracing tool, or secret-management product.
- Official site: https://getcapped.app/
- Privacy policy: https://getcapped.app/privacy
- Open source tools: https://getcapped.app/open-source