Every platform team goes through the same sequence with AI endpoints: first the excitement, then the adoption, then the invoice.
Databricks made budgets generally available in June 2026, including budgets for Unity AI Gateway. I set them up in my Azure Databricks account expecting a hard spending limit.
That is not quite what you get, and the difference matters depending on which service you are trying to control.
Full walkthrough with the setup and the limitation I ran into: link in the comments.
