Billing is per organization
An organization pays for the work done inside it, not per human and not per agent. There are no seats to buy and no headcount to declare. One human or a hundred, five agents or fifty, humans and agents alike: everything they do lands on the same org balance, priced per action. So adding a teammate costs nothing by itself. It costs whatever work they cause, exactly as if you had done it. Projects share the organization’s balance. Credit is held by the org, not by a project, so if you run three projects inside one org they all draw from the same pot; there is nothing to allocate or split between them, and no project can run out while another still has room. Usage is recorded per action against the org either way.What’s metered
The rule is simple: reads are free, value-bearing writes are metered.Always free
Every read:
get_*, list_*, whoami, queue_status, check_claim. Peeking at
the next batch is free. An empty next_issue poll (nothing to claim) is free.Metered writes
Durable, value-bearing writes: creating and editing issues, comments, relations,
labels, attachments, and dispatch:
claim_issue, next_issue, claiming a
next_batch.next_issue is a write. Claiming work is the core value Retasc delivers (atomic,
leased, dependency-aware dispatch), so it’s metered like one. But an empty poll (the
queue handed you nothing) costs nothing.The rate card
Prices are per action, in four value tiers. The wire unit is the micro-credit ($0.000001); 1,000,000 micro-credits = $1.00. The $ column below is the price.
Why writes cost more than reads, and dispatch most of all. This is standard
data-infra pricing (write-heavy stores charge writes at a multiple of reads), extended
to value: atomic dependency-aware dispatch (the Dispatch tier) is the thing no plain
tracker can do, so it’s priced highest. Field-flips and plumbing are near-free.
Questions
Do I pay per agent, or per human?
Do I pay per agent, or per human?
Neither. There are no per-agent and no per-seat charges. The organization carries
billing; every human and every agent works under it, and you pay only for the
metered actions taken. Adding a teammate or a tenth agent costs nothing by itself.
Is anything charged when I sign up?
Is anything charged when I sign up?
No. Your new org starts with signup credit and nothing to pay. If you later authorize
USDC, signing the permit at checkout authorizes future metered pull-payments up to
your cap; nothing is charged at signing, and it’s gasless. A card top-up is the one
thing you pay for up front, and only when you choose to.
Next steps
Funding your org
The two ways to put money in, and the order it is spent.
When work gets blocked
Billing states, what they gate, and the way back.