Every plan comes with a stated monthly compute budget, visible live in your dashboard. Requests run at full speed until the budget is used, then they stop until your period renews. No per-token billing, no overage charges, and nothing hidden: you always know how much you have left. Because smart routing and provider optimization stretch that budget 2 to 7 times further than paying per token, most people never reach it. There are really only two rules.
Use your budget however you want, whenever you want. We never slow requests based on how much of it you've used; the pace you see on day one is the pace you get on day thirty. If you reach the budget, requests stop until your period renews, or you upgrade and continue immediately. Prefer slowing down to stopping? Optional pacing spreads what's left across the month instead. It's off unless you turn it on.
The pricing works because members use it for real work. Smart routing, provider optimization and the shared pool are what make your budget go further than the sticker price, and they only work when the traffic is genuine. So don't flood the system with junk requests, split load across accounts to dodge controls, or hunt for ways to drain the pool. Our safeguards catch it, and it only makes the service worse for everyone, including you.
The stuff people second-guess on a flat plan. All of it is fair game.
The obvious stuff: outright malicious or illegal use. It still has to be said. Cross any of these and we'll suspend the account; everything else is fair game.
Every request is sized up and sent to the model that fits it. Routine work runs on efficient models at a fraction of frontier prices; hard work still gets frontier intelligence. This is the biggest single source of savings, often 10x on routine requests.
The same model usually runs on several providers. We continuously route each request to whichever offers the best rate at that moment, and the difference stays in your budget.
Not everyone runs hot at the same time. Capacity that would otherwise sit idle flows back into serving members, which is why plans deliver more compute than their price buys at per-token rates.
Requests stop, cleanly and predictably. Your dashboard shows the remaining budget at all times, an upgrade takes effect immediately if you need more, and everything resets when the period renews. With optional pacing turned on, responses ease off instead of stopping so an always-on agent keeps running.
These plans are for you and your agents. Run them as hard as your budget allows, for whatever you're working on. If you want to resell compute or run a product for external customers at real scale, let's talk enterprise.
To keep things stable we watch aggregate metrics: request volume, throughput, error rates. That's it. We don't read or analyze your prompt content.
It'll grow with the platform. Material changes get at least 14 days' notice. Questions about your specific use case? Reach us at contact@standardcompute.com.