---
title: "Budget"
description: "a strategy's budget by kind, of the receive family; reading the public market is never in it"
section: concepts
address: /concepts/budget
contract: 0476e35e6e275db5
---

# Budget

a strategy's budget by kind, of the receive family; reading the public market is never in it

[figure: Budget is a parameter at strategy scope. The drawing shows its fields and the objects that they point at.]

| property | value |
|---|---|
| kind | parameter |
| scope | strategy |
| key | the strategy |
| store | postgres |
| family | strategy |



## Fields


| field | type | required | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| `money_outside` | `money` | yes |  |
| `model_calls` | `count` | yes |  |
| `workbench_time` | `duration` | yes |  |
| `people_hours` | `duration` | yes |  |
| `spent` | [Cost](/concepts/cost) | yes |  |
| `window` | [Window](/concepts/window) | yes |  |



## Routes that use it
No route takes or returns Budget directly. The record holds it, and the objects that point at it reach it.