You pay for the model calls. Nothing else is metered.
Driving the portals, building your corpus, searching it and rendering the report cost the bureau compute rather than model calls, so they are not charged for.
- 1 credit
- USD 0.0001 — the unit everything is measured in
- A typical tender
- roughly 500–900 credits at standard effort
- A 12-tender run
- roughly 3,000 credits — about $0.30
- Scraping and searching
- free — they cost the bureau compute, not model calls
- Reports, .docx, PDF, email
- free — no model call is involved
The mechanics
How a run is charged.
- 01
Quoted
The bureau measures the notices you selected — on the server, from the text it already holds — and shows you the figure before you start.
- 02
Reserved
That amount is taken from your balance before a single model call is made. If you cannot cover it, the run does not start and nothing is spent.
- 03
Reconciled
When the run finishes, the reservation is released and the real cost — from the actual token usage — is charged. The quote runs deliberately high, so the difference usually comes back.
- 04
Interrupted runs are charged for what completed
Close the tab at tender 12 of 40 and you pay for 12. Every assessment is written to your account before it is sent to your screen, which is what makes that possible.
Top-ups
Credits are added by arrangement at launch — there is no card form, and the bureau stores no payment details of any kind. Register, then ask.