Budgets · 4 tools

Google Ads Budget Management MCP Tools

Create, update, and clean up campaign budgets. See daily amounts, delivery methods, and find orphaned budgets wasting resources.

When to use these tools

Use these tools to set daily spend limits, reallocate budget between campaigns, clean up unused budgets from deleted campaigns, or audit your overall spend allocation.

All budgets tools

list_budgets

List all budgets with daily amounts, status, and associated campaigns.

create_budget

Create a new daily budget.

namestringreqamountnumberreq

Parameter details

name: Budget name.
amount: Daily budget amount in account currency.

update_budget

confirm

Change budget amount. Requires explicit confirmation.

budget_idstringreqamountnumberreqconfirmbooleanreq

Parameter details

budget_id: Budget resource name.
amount: New daily amount.
confirm: Must be true to execute.

remove_orphan_budgets

Clean up budgets not attached to any campaign. Frees up clutter.

Example prompts

Copy these prompts into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client.

claude

Show me all my budgets and which campaigns they're attached to

5 budgets found:

  Budget            Daily     Campaigns
  ───────────────── ──────── ─────────────────────
  Brand Budget       $25.00  Brand - Search
  Competitor Bdg    $100.00  Competitor - Search
  DSA Budget         $40.00  DSA - Search
  Remarketing        $20.00  Remarketing - Display
  Old Launch Bdg     $50.00  (none, orphaned)

claude

Clean up any orphaned budgets

Removed 1 orphaned budget:
  "Old Launch Bdg" ($50.00/day) -not attached to any campaign.

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