Deadline budget split API

Splits a total time budget across pipeline steps proportional to weights, reserving an optional safety margin and returning each step's budget and cumulative deadline. Answers 'How much time should each step get?', 'What is the deadline after each step?'.

Price$0.02per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/workflow/deadline-budget

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit120/minute

Cache0s public

deadlinetimeoutbudgetsplitallocationpipelinetimeworkflow

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/workflow/deadline-budget

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "totalMs": 1000,
  "steps": [
    {
      "name": "fetch",
      "weight": 2
    },
    {
      "name": "process",
      "weight": 1
    }
  ],
  "reserveMs": 100
}

Example response

{
  "allocations": [
    {
      "name": "fetch",
      "budgetMs": 600,
      "deadlineAtMs": 600
    },
    {
      "name": "process",
      "budgetMs": 300,
      "deadlineAtMs": 900
    }
  ],
  "usableMs": 900,
  "reserveMs": 100,
  "interpretation": "Split 900ms across 2 step(s) by weight; 100ms held in reserve."
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "totalMs",
    "steps"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "totalMs": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        1000
      ]
    },
    "steps": {
      "type": "array",
      "examples": [
        [
          {
            "name": "fetch",
            "weight": 2
          },
          {
            "name": "process",
            "weight": 1
          }
        ]
      ]
    },
    "reserveMs": {
      "type": "number",
      "examples": [
        100
      ]
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}