Usage & billing
Where to see it
Workspace → Usage in the app. Per-organisation breakdown:
- This-month + lifetime totals for each product
- Token totals (embedding + LLM input + LLM output)
- Cost in USD per product
- Roll-up across all products
How costs are computed
Every billable event lands in a per-product event log at write-time with the cost calculated from the current pricing table. We persist the cost, not just the token count, so historical totals stay correct if Anthropic/OpenAI rates change later.
Cloudbrief
One row per analysis_runs record (daily analysis, on-demand investigation, incident hunt). Cost = (input_tokens × Claude input price) + (output_tokens × Claude output price). The detector layer skips the LLM call entirely on quiet days — those rows show 0 cost.
Paperbrief
Multiple event types in paperbrief_usage_events:
| Event type | When | Cost components |
|---|---|---|
ingest_embed | Once per uploaded document | OpenAI text-embedding-3-small ($0.02 / 1M tokens) over the chunk text |
ingest_ocr | When a PDF has no text layer | Claude Sonnet vision per page (approximated 75/25 input/output split) |
chat | Each question you ask | Claude Sonnet input + output plus the OpenAI embedding for the question's retrieval |
Current pricing model
Free during early-access. When we exit, the planned billing model is:
- A flat per-workspace monthly fee, AND
- Pass-through API costs at our wholesale rate plus a small administrative margin
We'll give every existing user ≥30 days' notice before any charge, with the full proposed plan and a chance to opt out without losing your historical data.
Live numbers
For a sense of magnitude in real-world use:
| Workload | Approximate monthly cost |
|---|---|
| Cloudbrief, 1 AWS account, mostly-quiet operations | $0.50–$2 |
| Cloudbrief, 1 AWS account, weekly investigations | $2–$8 |
| Paperbrief, 5–10 documents, light Q&A use | $1–$3 |
| Paperbrief, 50+ documents, daily heavy use | $10–$30 |
These are the underlying AI provider costs. The eventual workspace fee is added on top.
Receipts and history
Every event is queryable per-document or per-conversation. The platform admin (master owner) can drill into any organisation's events via Workspace → Platform admin → an org → Detector activity / usage tabs.
Bills will come monthly via Stripe (not yet wired). For early-access users we can produce a CSV export of any month on request.