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Budget Pilot for heavy AI users

Your AI tool has a usage limit. Budget Pilot makes it last longer and stops hallucinations in your chat, and real work still gets full power.

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How it feels

Use AI as usual

Chat and work with your AI like always.

Budget Pilot steers

It works quietly in the background.

Remembers it all

Long chats stay sharp, with no made-up answers.

More done before the limit

Your limit lasts longer.

98%less usage on quick tasks, at best*
48%less usage across 5 AI tools together*
2.5×more work done in a week, on 13% fewer tokens†

Work doneBeforeWith Budget PilotTokens usedBeforeWith Budget Pilot

*Our own tests in October 2026: the same tasks with and without Budget Pilot, measured by token cost. †A real week of heavy daily use with Budget Pilot (11 to 17 Oct 2026) against the week before. Your results will vary.

What it does

  • Governor

    Stops token waste, so your AI usage limit lasts longer and you get more done before it runs out. Real work keeps full power.

  • Endless memory

    Keep your chats as long as you like. Your chat remembers 100M+ tokens, we still save your usage, and we stop in-chat hallucinations.

  • Fast decision AI

    Steers every message in a split second: quick questions stay light, big jobs get full power.

  • Limit meter

    Shows how much of your 5-hour and weekly limit is left, and warns you before you run out.

  • Hands-free

    Runs by itself in the background, for every chat on the computer. Turn it off any time.

  • Cat crew rewards

    Counts the tokens it saves you. A cat crew turns your savings into free days.

  • In your browser too

    Also on the ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini websites, through a browser extension that uses the same key.
Our own trained AI

Budget Pilot has its own AI, trained in-house. It makes your limit last even longer, so more of it goes to real work.

Works on: Windows 10 and 11, Mac and Linux.

With: Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Qwen Code, OpenCode or Aider. You need one of them installed first. Versions checked every night.

One key works on 1 machine. Not sure it fits you? Ask us before you buy.

Get Budget Pilot

20% OFFyour first paymentIndividual plan. Added at checkout.
$9.99 / 2 months

20% off your first payment, then $9.99 every 2 months.

Cancel any time. Your key works until the end of the period you paid for.

Fair price: we only charge what it takes to keep Budget Pilot running and getting better.

Who is it for?
Team price: $8.99 per person every 2 months (10% off the first payment), or $42.99 per person per year. At least 2 people; one key each, all in your account, renewing together.
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Enterprise

Budget Pilot for a whole team or company: many keys, one invoice. Tell us what you need and we will send you an offer.

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Install

  1. 1Subscribe
  2. 2Get your key
  3. 3Run one command

Right after you pay, you see your key and make a password (a free trial key comes by email). Your account page then shows these steps with your key already filled in.

  1. Have your AI tool ready. Install it and log in as you normally do: Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Claude Code, Qwen Code, OpenCode or Aider.
  2. Run your line in a terminal.

    Windows (PowerShell):

    irm "https://budgetpilot.net/install.ps1?key=YOUR-KEY" | iex

    Your AI tool runs inside Ubuntu (WSL)? Then use the Linux line in Ubuntu instead.

    Mac or Linux (Terminal):

    curl -fsSL https://budgetpilot.net/install.sh | bash -s -- YOUR-KEY

    These are examples. After you buy, your account page shows them with your own key already in, ready to copy.

    On Linux it may ask for your password once, to put the Claude Code hooks in the machine-wide settings. Press Enter three times instead and it installs just for you, and that works too. Want to read the script first? install.sh and install.ps1.

    New to the terminal?

    Windows: open the Start menu, type PowerShell and open it. Mac: press Cmd + Space, type Terminal and press Enter. Linux: press Ctrl + Alt + T. To paste: right-click, or press Ctrl + Shift + V (Cmd + V on a Mac). When it asks for your password, nothing shows while you type; that's normal.

  3. Check that it worked. Open a new terminal and type bp. You should see the Budget Pilot screen with Status: On. That's all: Budget Pilot now works by itself, in the background.

📌 Read this first: how to use it

After step 3 there is nothing new to learn. Keep using your AI tool exactly as you do now. Here is what that looks like for each one:

Claude Codefully automatic
claude

Chat as always. After each message you see a short line, “Budget Pilot is working”, and a warning before your limit runs out.

In VS Code, Cursor or Windsurf: the Claude Code extension works automatically too, same as in the terminal.

Gemini CLIfully automatic
gemini

Chat as always. Your limit lasts longer, and real work still gets full power.

Codex CLI, Qwen Code, Aiderautomatic when it starts
  1. Open a new terminal window (on Windows: the Ubuntu app).
  2. Start your AI tool with the same word you always type, and press Enter:
    codex
    (or qwen, or aider)
  3. Use the tool as normal. When it starts you see “Budget Pilot is working”.

Have one clear job? Type the job after bp --run instead. Budget Pilot opens the tool ready for it:

bp --run "fix the login bug in auth.py"
OpenCodestart tasks with run
bp --run "add a dark mode switch"

It opens OpenCode ready for that task.

Good to know: it never costs you more than your own settings would, and important work always gets full power. Pause it with bp --off, turn it back on with bp --on. Not sure which AI tools it found? Type bp --detect.

Antigravity on Windows: its terminal works when it is connected to Ubuntu (WSL). In its chat panel, Budget Pilot can only give tips, and you choose.

Updates, and how to remove it

Updates install by themselves. Nothing to do. To remove Budget Pilot, paste this line into the terminal and press Enter:

curl -fsSL https://budgetpilot.net/install.sh | bash -s -- --remove

Windows (PowerShell):

irm "https://budgetpilot.net/install.ps1?remove=1" | iex

Browser extension

For the ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini websites: works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Firefox, with the same key. Get it from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons, or from your account (a free trial key works too).

See your key, manage your card or cancel: your account. Questions? Contact support.