Billing and payments
AlphaAgent uses simple, usage-based billing: you pay for the prompt tokens your deployed Studio consumes, billed once a month. There is no subscription to manage and no upfront commitment. All payments are processed securely through Stripe — the Console never stores your card details.
How billing works
- Price: $40 per 1,000,000 prompt tokens.
- What's measured: the prompt (input) tokens your running Studio reports back to the Console over the secure license telemetry channel.
- When you're billed: on the 1st of each month, for the previous month's usage. Your saved card is charged automatically.
If your total for a month is very small (below the minimum chargeable amount), it is waived rather than invoiced.
A card on file is required
Because usage is billed automatically, a valid payment card is part of getting set up:
- You must have a card on file to create a license key. Onboarding does not collect a card; you add one from Billing → Payment methods (see below). If you try to create a license key without a card on file, the Console asks you to add one first.
- You can't create a new license key while you have an unpaid balance. Settle the outstanding invoice first.
Manage payment methods
From Billing → Payment methods the Console shows a read-only list of the cards on file (brand, last four digits, expiry, and which is the default). It never handles raw card details itself.
To add, replace, remove, or change your default card, use Manage billing in Stripe — this opens the secure Stripe Customer Portal, where you can also view your full invoice history and download receipts. Any change you make in the portal is reflected back in the Console.
Invoices
From Billing → Invoices you can browse your invoice history with status, totals, and links to the hosted invoice and PDF. Each monthly invoice itemizes your usage per license key so you can see exactly where the tokens went. You can also open the Stripe Customer Portal for the same history and receipts.
Once a month's invoice is issued, its figures are fixed. If a correction is ever needed, it is handled as a separate credit — your original invoice is never silently changed.
If a payment fails
If your card is declined, Stripe automatically retries over the following days and emails you about the problem. During this window:
- Grace period. Your account shows a payment overdue warning in the Console and your running Studio shows a banner — but everything keeps working. Update your card or pay the open invoice to clear it.
- Suspension. If the invoice stays unpaid after the retry window, your license keys move to billing suspended and your Studio deployment stops running agents.
This is fully reversible. As soon as the outstanding invoice is paid (your retried card succeeds, or you pay through the Customer Portal), your account and license keys return to normal automatically — no support ticket needed. This is different from a revoked license (see License Keys), which is permanent.
All payment-failure and reminder emails are sent by Stripe.