Every FinOps tool built before 2026 hunts idle resources. PACE hunts the opposite — spend that is furiously, expensively active. A circuit breaker between autonomous agents and your invoice.
free tier forever · no card · $0 infrastructure
spend / hr
$3.00
tool calls
0
breaker
idle
$ pace watch --agent orchestrator-7 --cap 250 …waiting
The blind spot
Classic cost tools look for things doing nothing: forgotten instances, orphaned volumes, unattached IPs. That whole category assumes waste is still.
An agent in a retry spiral looks like a perfectly healthy, highly utilised workload. It passes every check you own — right up until the hour it spends four figures.
Legacy FinOps
PACE
One night, five acts
Nobody asked it to. A webhook fired, a plan was drafted, four sub-agents were spawned. Your cloud provider is thrilled.
$0.42 / min
So it retries. Exponential backoff on paper — a flat wall of identical calls in practice. 27 of them. Then 300. Each one a token bill.
$6.10 / min
Every stuck child spawns two more. This is a fork bomb wearing a reasoning trace. Your FinOps tool sees healthy, active, non-idle resources.
$71.80 / min
Not an email. Not a Monday-morning report. A hard stop: process paused, budget frozen, Slack pinged, blast radius written down to the task that caused it.
halted
A local model narrates the spike in plain English, attributes it to one agent and one task, and generates the Terraform for the rightsized version.
$9,400 saved
Twenty-five capabilities
Architecture
Local emulation for dev, free tiers for the demo, and a small open model doing the talking — so there's no token bill inside the tool that watches your token bill.
Cloud layer
MiniStack locally, free-tier live
no account, no card
Backend
Python · FastAPI
free dyno
Frontend
React · Recharts
edge hosted
The brain
Ollama · Llama 3.2 3B
$0 per token
Anomalies
Prophet · statsmodels
open source
CI
GitHub Actions
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