# Runcycles

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/runcycles
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/runcycles.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/runcycles/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://runcycles.io
- **Slug:** runcycles
- **Categories:** ai-machine-learning

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Enforces budgets and tool permissions for AI agents *before* actions execute, offering true runtime authority and preventing issues like runaway spend or unauthorized actions, unlike post-hoc rate limiters or observability tools. It is also self-hosted with no prompt storage.
Source: Brand's website (https://runcycles.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Runcycles provides CyclesRuntime, a self-hosted, Apache 2.0 licensed platform that offers runtime authority for autonomous agents. It prevents runaway agent spend and risky actions by checking budgets and tool permissions before execution, ensuring controlled and auditable AI agent operations.
Source: Brand's website (https://runcycles.io) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - CyclesRuntime
  - a platform for AI agent governance providing budget checks
  - tool permission enforcement
  - and action authority.
Source: Brand's website (https://runcycles.io) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Self-hosted, open-source (Apache 2.0 license).
Source: Brand's website (https://runcycles.io) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Developers, platform teams, and organizations building or deploying autonomous AI agents, particularly those concerned with cost overruns, security risks, and multi-tenant budget isolation.
Source: Brand's website (https://runcycles.io) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-04.