---
title: 'Pricing and credit'
description: 'What runs, agent time, storage and web search cost; credit, starting credit and its limits'
---
[View as Markdown](https://camelai.com/docs/camelrun/pricing.md) · [Docs index for coding agents](https://run.camelai.com/llms.txt)

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                                                                                                                                                           |

## 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](/docs/camelrun/limits#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](/docs/camelrun/models-and-keys).
* Bound an agent or a run with a [spend limit](/docs/camelrun/models-and-keys#spend-limits),
  and see where credit goes with `GET /v1/usage` or the `usage.recorded`
  [webhook](/docs/camelrun/webhooks).

A self-hosted runtime charges nothing unless its operator sets up billing; see
[Self-hosting](/docs/camelrun/self-hosting).