Credits & billing

Prepaid, pay-per-call billing. Top up credits that never expire; each successful call debits the call’s price.

How billing works

Billing is prepaid and per-call. AI-model tools bill per model queried (query one and pay only for that model). A call is only billed on success; a failed call is recorded but not charged.

Tracker lifecycle actions and stored-history reads cost 0 credits. Scheduled and manual tracker runs bill their saved primitive calls at normal rates. Activating or resuming requires confirmation of the current maximum credits per run and authorizes recurring calls until the tracker is paused. See Tracker tools.

Top-ups

Add credits via Stripe ($25 minimum). Credits never expire. New accounts get $1 free to test. Prices are USD; internally we meter in micro-credits for 5-decimal per-call precision.

Spend limits and concurrent calls

Optional daily and monthly spend limits are enforced before provider work starts. Cite42 temporarily reserves each call’s maximum possible price, and live reservations count toward both limits until those calls settle. The reservation is then replaced by the exact charge, which may be lower. With concurrent work, another call can therefore receive 429 while finalized spend is still below the limit; retry after the in-flight calls finish.

Billing in the response

Every billed call returns a billing block with the exact cost and remaining balance, so your agent sees spend per call with no surprises:

{
  "billing": { "cost": { "usd": "0.22" }, "balance": { "usd": "14.40" } }
}