CLOUD AGENTS / BILLING

Billing & metering

Compute bills from $0.04 / hr while a sandbox runs — stopped sandboxes cost nothing. AI tokens are prepaid credits from $5, or bring your own provider key.

The pricing shape

Compute

You pay for sandbox time — from $0.04 / hr for a default (4 vCPU / 8 GB) sandbox — billed while it runs. A stopped sandbox costs nothing.

small · $0.018/h
default · $0.04/h
large · $0.08/h
xlarge · $0.2/h

Tokens & Model Keys

Buy prepaid AI credits from $5 (10,000 tokens per dollar). Runs without their own provider key use Nah's OpenRouter key and draw from that balance. Credits are one-off and never renew. To pay your provider directly instead, set OPENROUTER_API_KEY on the agent.

Compute is charged. A 10-minute run on default costs ~$0.007. Sandboxes stop and resume aggressively, so idle time is ~0 and only actual agent runs bill.

AI tokens are prepaid. Choose any amount from $5 on the Billing page at 10,000 tokens per dollar. Tokens are metered per run and never expire into a recurring charge.

An always-on default sandbox costs ~$28/mo. The "always-on" tier is priced to cover that floor; everything else bills per use.

Abuse prevention

Because Nah Cloud can supply the model key, we enforce safeguards to protect both the service and the user:

  • Prepaid balance. Platform-key runs only start while the organization has AI credits left; there is no postpaid overage.
  • Step and token caps per run. Enforced in the harness (stepBudget), not by the model.
  • Sandbox TTL. Default 1 hour; stopped between runs so idle time is ~0.
  • Concurrency caps per tenant. So one user can't occupy the pool.
  • Bring your own key. Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY on the agent to pay your provider directly; those runs never draw Nah credits.

Free tier

A free tier on a metered-token product is an unbounded liability. The free tier is capped at a low monthly spend with rate limits that prevent abuse.

Rate card — compute

Billed per second while running. Stopped sandboxes cost nothing.

SIZECPURAMDISK$/HOUR
small2 vCPU4 GB12 GB$0.018
default4 vCPU8 GB50 GB$0.04
large8 vCPU16 GB125 GB$0.08
xlarge16 vCPU32 GB251 GB$0.2