Pricing & credits

Consortium has two billing planes:

• Managed inference — you use Consortium’s provider access, metered through a prepaid credit wallet.
• BYOK — your own provider keys or subscriptions. BYOK traffic goes directly from your machine to the vendor and is never metered or marked up by Consortium. BYOK requires a paid plan.

Plans

	Free	Pro	Pro Team
Price	$0	$20 / month	$50 / month (2 seats included, +$10 per extra seat)
Who it’s for	Trying Consortium	Individual daily use	Teams and shared organizations

Base plans include no bundled credits — you add credits separately (below). For the full capability comparison, see Free vs Pro.

There are no free trials; paid plans bill immediately.

Credits

Managed inference is charged per token at the underlying provider rate plus a flat 20% platform fee. Input, output, and cache tokens are each billed at their own rate — billed input tokens exclude cached tokens, so cache hits are never double-charged.

Ways to add credits:

Method	Range	Notes
One-time top-up packs	$10 – $1,000	Larger packs include bonus credits (e.g. $100 → $115, $1,000 → $1,250)
Recurring monthly packs	$10 – $1,000	1:1, billed with your subscription
Custom recurring amount	$1 – $10,000 / month	Whole dollars

The minimum one-time top-up is $10. Auto-top-up exists and is off by default.

Spending caps

Every account has a spending cap enforced at the proxy:

• Free: fixed at $5 — not raisable.
• Pro: configurable, up to the plan’s maximum.
• When a cap is hit, requests fail cleanly with a quota error; raise the cap or top up to resume.

Note

Auto-top-up is off by default. With it off, hitting your cap stops managed inference until you act — which is the safe failure mode, but worth knowing before a long unattended run.

Free tier limits

Free accounts can use the free managed models (see Supported models) within a rolling window of 250,000 tokens per 4 hours, and are limited to 3 concurrent sessions, 3 machines, 1 project, and 500 MB of Drive storage.

Where to see usage

In the app: Settings → Usage (per-model breakdown, invoices) and the wallet balance in Settings → Billing. Programmatically: GET /external/v1/usage with a usage:read token.