Billing & spending controls
One prepaid balance, with a different charging basis for a workspace, a Studio run and an API request. Review the price and limits before starting.
Know which number you are looking at
- Balance: your recorded prepaid credit. One credit is one US dollar.
- Approved work: the charge headroom already committed to running jobs. Uncapped workspaces can make the total unknown.
- Estimate: an indication of likely time or cost, with its stated measurement basis.
- Run maximum: the most the customer may be charged for that bounded Studio run. It is a limit, not the predicted price.
- Settled charge: what the transaction history actually records. An in-progress estimate is not a receipt.
Dedicated workspaces: pay for billable time
Review the current hardware quote in the deployment flow. A workspace is open-ended unless its flow explicitly supplies a charge limit: it keeps accruing usage until stopped.
- Startup after a worker is placed can be billable, including model download and loading. Being ready to serve is a later event.
- Time spent waiting for a worker that was never placed is not running-compute usage.
- Usage is calculated proportionally and settled periodically, with remaining billable time reconciled when stopping. Live estimates and posted debits can update at different times.
- A failed generation can still have consumed billable machine time. Do not assume every unsuccessful result is free.
- An idle workspace does not automatically become free. Use Stop when finished and check the resulting status.
Studio: review the run and its maximum
Preparing inputs and reviewing the price does not start a paid generation. The review separates processing estimates from total time and the maximum allowed charge.
Startup, queueing, saving and cleanup are different stages. Where a reliable total is not known, the screen says so. Waiting for capacity can add elapsed time without allocating a machine.
A customer charge limit is not a promise that a provider stops a machine at an exact second, or that every generation finishes successfully. Review failures and partial delivery before deciding the result is useful.
API: configured price per successful request
Supported per-request endpoints use the model’s configured successful-request price. Cold starts affect the wait; a catalog entry does not guarantee free GPU capacity.
Use the current configuration-backed table instead of old example prices. View configured API rates and startup estimates →
Personal daily and monthly limits
Choose the limit and what happens when it is reached in Settings. “Warn” allows work to start with a warning; “pause” blocks new starts when the relevant admission check refuses.
These settings do not stop machines that are already running. Ongoing work can keep increasing settled usage, so they must not be treated as an exact stop-at-this-dollar timer for an open workspace.
A platform capacity restriction is separate from your balance. Adding credit does not fix an unavailable worker, invalid input or service capacity limit. Follow the reason shown in the review.
Stop compute; manage saved files separately
Deployments manages compute and retained workspace disks. Stopping compute is different from confirming that its retained disk was removed.
Files & storage manages uploaded inputs and saved Studio files. Keep choices and active or saved uses can protect a file from cleanup. The screen shows whether automatic cleanup is currently available and enabled; saving preferred periods alone does not enable an unavailable service.
A file deletion does not erase your billing history. Download results you need before permanently removing their files. If removal is unconfirmed or pending, refresh before assuming it finished.
Before adding credit or deleting an account
Read the current quote and the reason for any refusal first. Credit purchases are available in Billing; availability checks are not a request to top up automatically.
Account deletion and its retained accounting records are explained in Settings. It does not automatically refund a remaining balance. For account or refund questions, review the terms and contact support.