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Pricing and credit

What runs, agent time, storage and web search cost; credit, starting credit and its limits

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camelRun is prepaid: you buy credit, and usage draws it down. There is no subscription and no per-seat or per-agent fee. GET /v1/billing (the console's Billing page) shows your balance, this month's spending by kind, and the rates below as your account is charged them.

WhatPrice
Model calls on the platform's keysThe provider's own reported cost, else the model catalog's price (GET /v1/models, cost per million tokens). No markup. OpenRouter models add what funding OpenRouter credit costs: ×1.055
Model calls on your own key (or a key scope's)Nothing from camelRun: the provider bills you
Agent time$0.01 per hour an agent spends in a run (model calls and tool execution), metered continuously. An idle agent costs nothing
Storage$0.10 per GB-month of what your agents and volumes keep (history, files, snapshots), charged daily
web_search on the platform's keysPer search, by the provider that answered: Exa $0.007, Brave $0.005, Parallel $0.001
web_fetch page rendering on the platform's key$0.00083 per page Firecrawl renders

Credit

  • Starting credit: $5, once. GitHub accounts older than 30 days get it at sign-up. Everyone else unlocks it by verifying a card on the Billing page; the card is not charged.
  • Buying credit: $5 to $1,000 at a time, with a 5.5% fee on the purchase. Auto top-up can buy more when your balance runs low.
  • Before your first purchase: at most $1 of model tokens and agent time an hour, and 1 GB stored. After it, 100 GB stored, and the usage tiers raise how many agents may be busy at once as your purchases add up.
  • At zero balance, new runs and file writes get 402 INSUFFICIENT_CREDIT, and a running turn ends after the response that spent the last credit. Nothing is deleted: add credit and send the next message.

Spending less

  • Use your own provider keys (PUT /v1/providers/:provider/key): model calls then cost you only what the provider charges, and camelRun charges agent time and storage. See Models and keys.
  • Bound an agent or a run with a spend limit, and see where credit goes with GET /v1/usage or the usage.recorded webhook.

A self-hosted runtime charges nothing unless its operator sets up billing; see Self-hosting.

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