Billing & Credits

Remember Cloud is designed with transparent, predictable pricing. You only pay for the dedicated pods you run and the compute resources your agents consume.

1. Credit-Based Billing Model

Usage in Remember Cloud is prepaid in credits. While work runs, an estimate is held; the statement is the bill. Work pauses visibly at the cap the organisation sets.

Paid Alpha Entry: The planned public managed offering is a paid Alpha with no free tier.
Zero-Cost Evaluation: For local exploration, testing, and zero-cost self-hosting, use the Apache-2.0 Docker Compose quickstart.

2. Usage & Compute Resources

Billing in Remember Cloud consists of two components:

A. Dedicated Project Pods

Each project is allocated a dedicated container pod with an isolated PostgreSQL 19 instance, SQL/PGQ engine, private vector storage, and automated bitemporal maintenance.

B. Ingestion & Retrieval Compute

Ingestion Pipeline (E0–E3): Metered based on document pages and extracted claims (text normalization, deterministic chunk packing, model extraction, and contradiction resolution).
Assured Operations & Open SQL: Metered based on query execution time and retrieved claim hydration.

3. Spend Lease Protection (D46)

To protect your budget from buggy agent loops, infinite recursive tool calls, or runaway scripts, Remember Cloud enforces Spend Leases:

Agent Request (e.g. POST /operations/facts_context)
       │
       ▼
┌────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 1. Lease Reservation                   │
│    - Verifies token balance            │
│    - Reserves ephemeral micro-lease    │
└──────────────────┬─────────────────────┘
                   │
         ┌─────────┴─────────┐
         ▼                   ▼
┌──────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐
│ Success (2xx)    │ │ Error / Timeout  │
│ - Commit lease   │ │ - Release lease  │
│ - Deduct credits │ │ - Zero charge    │
└──────────────────┘ └──────────────────┘

Ephemeral Reservation: A tiny spend lease is reserved when a request enters the gateway.
Commit on Success: Credits are only deducted if the request succeeds (HTTP 2xx).
Auto-Release on Failure: If a query encounters a syntax error, hits the 5-second statement timeout, or fails for any reason, the lease is instantly released. You never pay for failed queries.

4. Monitoring Your Spend

Check your credit balance anytime from the terminal:

remember balance

Notice: Organization billing and subscription status are managed in the cloud console at https://remember.dev/app/billing.

You can also inspect spending caps in the Cloud Dashboard to ensure work pauses visibly when a budget threshold is reached.