Usage credits (pay as you go)
Run an agent without your own provider account — prepaid credits are billed per task, and never expire.
- Asked on every deploy
- $10, $25 or $50
- Billed as it runs
- In your wallet
There are two ways to run an agent, and you choose on every deploy. Bring your own agent — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and the rest, on the accounts you already pay for. That path is free on every plan and has not changed.
Or run a CodeAgent agent: we hold the provider account, you hold prepaid usage credits, and each task is deducted as the agent works. There is nothing to sign up for with Anthropic or OpenAI, no second subscription, and no monthly minimum.
The agent runs on our account. You never create, pay for, or manage a key with the model provider.
A task on the Standard tier starts around four cents; a frontier model costs more. The wallet shows what each task actually cost.
A pack you buy today is still there months from now. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum attached to it.
When the balance reaches zero, runs stop rather than rolling into a bill. A surprise invoice is impossible because it is prepaid.
Which agents you can run
Four agents are available on credits, in two tiers. Standard covers everyday work at the lowest cost per task; Frontier is for the hardest reasoning.
Runs Opus 5 by default. Fable 5.1, Sonnet 5 and Haiku 4.5 are selectable per session from Profile › Agents.
OpenAI's coding agent with reasoning on, and full tool use.
Fast and the lowest cost per task. Also available as V4 Flash for shorter work.
Long-context work: large refactors and codebase-wide changes.
- 1Start a deploy
The agent chooser asks how you want to run this codespace: your own agents, or CodeAgent agents.
- 2Pick a CodeAgent agent
Choose the tier and the agent. Nothing to link, nothing to authenticate.
- 3Top up if you need to
Checkout opens in your browser. Your balance updates in the app when you come back.
- 4Watch the cost as it runs
The wallet groups spend by task, so you see what a piece of work cost rather than a wall of API calls.
Credits and your plan are separate things. Your plan sets the app limits — how many tasks a day, how many devices, Team Spaces. Credits pay for compute on our provider accounts. Pro subscribers get $1 in credits to try a CodeAgent agent.
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