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Spiral is pay as you go from one prepaid balance. There are no plans or minimums, and credits never expire.

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Before a run

Every tool has one pricing sentence: its base rate and unit in dollars, plus the input fields, minimums, rounding and add-ons that change the calculation. It is pricing_sentence on Inspect a model, with your organization’s fee, and the console’s Pricing page lists them all.
Work a run’s cost out from it: duration 10 at $0.07 per second is $0.70. The names in backticks are the run’s own input fields. A sentence that starts with “About” or “Up to”, or says the final charge comes from usage, gives a typical cost or a ceiling: the tool is priced by what it uses, which is only known after the run. pricing_sentence is null for a tool that has no price yet.

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During and after a run

When a run starts, its estimate is held from your balance (cost.state: held). When it finishes, the hold is replaced by the charge for the measured usage (cost.state: settled), and anything left is released. A run that fails on Spiral’s side or the provider’s is not charged: the hold goes back to your balance.

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Limits

Give each agent its own key with a spend cap. The cap is reserved before a run starts, so it is never overshot. Add credits, set auto top-up and balance alerts in the console under Billing.