Billing
How accounts are charged, the three billing modes Socaity uses, and where to find current rates.
Free sign-up credit
Every new account starts with a free credit — no card required. Current amount on socaity.ai/Pricing.
Pay only for what runs
No charge for cold starts, queue time, or failed executions. Idle services bill nothing.
Monthly statement
A usage summary is emailed on the 1st of each month with a per-service breakdown.
Different products charge in different ways. Every service you use names which mode it is on and which unit it charges by. Live rates per service are at socaity.ai/Pricing — this page covers the conceptual model.
| Mode | How it's measured | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| MaaS — pay-per-use | Charged per unit of work, where the unit is the one shown on the service’s own page (per ms, per second, per image, per 1k tokens, …). Idle time, queue time, and failed runs are not billed. | The default for most Socaity-hosted and Replicate-backed models when called serverlessly. |
| Dedicated hosting | Hourly rental of a reserved GPU. Always-on, regardless of traffic. | Steady, high-volume workloads that need predictable latency. |
| SPAINE workflows | Outcome-based: a percentage fee per finalised deliverable. | Agentic workflows where the deliverable, not the token count, is what matters. |
A subscription is optional. It unlocks higher quotas, environment cloning, and deployment priority on top of the four billing modes above.
| Tier | For |
|---|---|
| Free | Evaluation and small personal projects. Limited usage. |
| Plus | Indie developers and side projects with regular traffic. |
| Pro | Production teams with consistent inference workloads. |
| Ultimate | High-volume products, priority support, enhanced privacy. |
Current tier prices and what each includes are at socaity.ai/Pricing.
Navigate to Account → Billing on the dashboard to see your current balance, usage history, and per-service breakdown.
Set a monthly spend cap to prevent unexpected charges. When the limit is reached, new requests return 402 Payment Required until you raise the limit or the billing period resets.
- Go to Account → Billing → Spend Limits
- Enter your monthly cap in EUR
- Optionally enable email alerts at 50%, 80%, and 100%
- Click Save
Top up your balance from the billing dashboard.
Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. Charged immediately.