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camelRun pricing: agent time, storage and credit
camelRun is prepaid: $0.01 per hour an agent spends in a run, $0.10 per GB-month stored, and tokens at the provider's price, or nothing on your own keys.
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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.
| What | Price |
|---|---|
| Model calls on the platform's keys | The 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 keys | Per 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 |
x_search on the platform's xAI key | What xAI reports for the call (Grok tokens and the posts and profiles it fetched), with no added search fee |
| Transcription on the platform's OpenAI key | $0.0045 per minute of audio (gpt-transcribe), billed per second |
| Voice calls on the platform's key | The realtime model's tokens at its list price (about $0.02 to $0.05 a conversational minute); what people say transcribed at the transcription price |
Speech (POST /v1/speech) on the platform's OpenAI key | $0.015 per minute of speech made (gpt-4o-mini-tts), billed per second |
| Speech through other providers, on the platform's key for each | Their list prices, per 1,000 characters spoken: ElevenLabs Flash/Turbo v2.5 $0.05, Cartesia sonic-3 $0.05, Deepgram aura-2 $0.03 |
| Images on the platform's OpenAI key | Per token as OpenAI bills gpt-image-2.5-flare: $5 per million text tokens in, $8 per million image tokens in, $30 per million image tokens out. A 1024x1024 image is $0.0059 at low, $0.0132 at medium, $0.0527 at high |
| Computers | Nothing from camelRun: the provider (Modal, Daytona, E2B, Browserbase and the rest) bills your account with it |
Credit
- Starting credit: $5, once. GitHub accounts older than 30 days get it at sign-up. When the Billing page offers it, everyone else can unlock starting credit by verifying a card; the card is not charged. A card unlocks credit once, across all accounts, and prepaid cards unlock none.
- 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/usageor theusage.recordedwebhook. - Charging your own users? End-user credits give each person a balance and daily allowances, and can mark up what their agents spend.
Usage by workspace
Group agents into workspaces to see spend by project.
The console's Usage page follows the workspace switcher, and
GET /v1/usage?workspaceId=ws_... returns one workspace's usage
(workspaceId=unassigned for the rest; omit it for account totals and a
workspaces summary). A workspace's costs include model calls and recorded
tools such as x_search, web_search and images. Agent time and storage are
charged to the account and not split by workspace. Each cost stays with the
workspace its call was made in, even after the agent moves.
A self-hosted runtime charges nothing unless its operator sets up billing; see Self-hosting.