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Billing & Usage

Understand plan tiers, credit-based usage charging, and spend controls.

Cencori billing combines plan limits with usage-based credits.

Two-Layer Billing
  1. Plan Tier: controls platform entitlements.
  2. Credits Wallet: prepaid balance used for AI request charges.

Requests are not capped by count on any plan. Even with credits available, a request can still be blocked by:

  • spend caps,
  • or security/rate-limit controls.

Plan Tiers

Tiers differ by features and seats, not by a request allowance — no plan caps how many requests you can make. What you pay scales with what you actually use, via the credits wallet described below.

Usage Pricing

For each successful managed-key request, Cencori computes:

  • provider cost from usage (tokens, image generations, audio duration/characters),
  • adds no Cencori gateway markup or per-request platform fee,
  • records final charge as cencori_charge_usd,
  • deducts that amount from org credits.

Formula:

managed: provider_cost = cencori_charge_usd
BYOK: cencori_charge_usd = 0

The provider cost uses the configured model rate and reported usage. If you use Revenue to bill your customers, the markup in your plans is separate from this Cencori usage charge.

See Credits System for top-up and wallet details.

Spend Management

Use these controls to prevent runaway spend:

  • Monthly Budget (soft): warning thresholds before overrun.
  • Hard Spend Cap: blocks requests once cap is reached.
  • Rate Limits: per-minute protection at project/API-key level.

Managed vs BYOK Billing
ModeProvider invoiceCencori wallet usage
Managed keysPaid by CencoriDeducted from credits
BYOKPaid by your provider accountNo Cencori usage deduction; provider cost remains visible in logs

See Bring Your Own Key (BYOK).

The Billing page

Open Organization settings → Billing, or click the credit balance in the top bar:

  • Plan: your plan, next renewal, requests this month and active projects. Upgrade from here.
  • Prepaid credits: your available balance, top-ups and recent activity.
  • Spend limits: monthly budget, spend cap and current spend. Each project can also have its own, under the project's Settings → Budget.
  • Invoices: past payments, each with a receipt.
  • Billing details: legal name, billing email, billing address and tax ID, printed on your invoices.

Organization settings → Usage shows requests, tokens, spend and success rate across all projects, broken down by model and provider. Longer history needs a paid plan.

Where to Track Costs
  • Organization settings → Billing (org-level balance and transactions)
  • AI Gateway overview and AI Gateway → Logs for each project
  • Request-level cost fields (provider_cost_usd, cencori_charge_usd, markup_percentage)
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