# Simple pricing: pay as you go, or a plan with up to 25% more

Published 2026-11-01 by Excession Labs · Source page: https://excessionlabs.ai/blog/simple-pricing/

> You pay in US dollars, per token. Add funds from $10, or pick a monthly plan that gives you 10% to 25% more usage than you pay. A bigger plan gets a bigger bonus. There is no access review.

## One set of prices

Pay as you go and plans use the same per-token prices:

| Tokens | Price per 1M tokens |
| --- | --- |
| Input | $0.28 |
| Cached input | $0.07 |
| Output, including reasoning | $1.00 |

For example, 100M input tokens with half of them cached, plus 10M output tokens, cost $27.50. The calculator on the API page (https://excessionlabs.ai/api#cost) does this for your numbers.

## Pay as you go

Add funds from $10 to $1000 by card or crypto. The money becomes your balance in US dollars, 1:1. Your balance does not expire while your account is open, also after you cancel a plan. You do not need a plan to use the CLI or the API.

## Plans: 10% to 25% more usage

A plan gives monthly plan credit worth more than its price. A bigger plan gets a bigger bonus:

| Plan | Per month | Plan credit | Bonus |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starter | $20 | $22 | +10% |
| Pro | $100 | $115 | +15% |
| Max | $200 | $240 | +20% |
| Ultra | $500 | $625 | +25% |

Unused plan credit expires at renewal. 1 plan = 1 person. Plans are billed monthly by card. An upgrade charges the prorated difference at once. A downgrade starts at renewal. You can cancel at any time, and the plan stays active until the end of the paid month.

## Plan credit first, then balance

Requests use plan credit first, then your balance. **Available** is the plan credit that is left plus your balance. The setting **Use balance after plan credit** is on by default. Turn it off in Billing if you want requests to stop when plan credit is used up. From the terminal:

```sh
excession whoami                      # plan credit, balance and available
excession billing --use-balance off   # stop when plan credit is used up
```

## You see each charge

- Usage in the console lists each request, its cost, and whether plan credit or balance paid.
- Non-streaming API responses carry an `X-Cost-Usd` header.
- The console and the CLI warn you at 80% and 95% of plan credit, and when funds are low. A low-funds email goes out below a limit you set (default $5).
- When funds are too low, the API returns HTTP 402 with the numbers. It never returns 429 for money.

## Invite a friend

Share your referral link from the console. The person you invite gets 10% extra on their first payment, added to their balance. When that payment clears, you get $10 to $50 on your balance, depending on what they bought. The [docs](https://excessionlabs.ai/docs/#referrals) have the full rules.

## No access review

Sign in by email code or with a social login, then add funds or pick a plan. There is no access request and no review. Using the service means that you accept the Acceptable Use Policy (https://excessionlabs.ai/aup/).