Costs

The Costs page gives you a cross-project view of AI model token usage and estimated spend.

How billing works

Synthcore uses a BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) model. You pay two things:

Cost	What it covers	Who you pay
Platform fee	Infrastructure, agent operations, dashboard, support	Synthcore ($149/mo per project)
Model usage	AI tokens consumed by your agent	Your provider directly (Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.)

There is no markup on model costs. You supply your own API keys and pay providers at their standard rates.

What's tracked

The costs dashboard shows:

• Token usage — Input and output tokens per model, per project
• Estimated cost — Calculated from each provider's published per-token pricing
• Daily trends — Usage patterns over time to help you forecast spend
• Top consumers — Which models and projects are using the most tokens

Per-project breakdown

Click into any project to see a detailed breakdown:

• Which models are consuming the most tokens
• Peak usage periods — when your agent is most active

This helps you identify optimization opportunities — for example, routing lower-complexity tasks to more cost-effective models.

Where costs come from

Your costs are model token usage (paid to your provider) plus the Synthcore platform fee.

Tips for managing costs

• Right-size your models — Not every task needs the most capable model. Use the Models page to configure fallback chains
• Review agent activity — More cycles consume more tokens. Check the Activity page for patterns
• Set up alerts — Configure spend alerts in Settings → Notifications to catch unexpected usage spikes
• Check provider consoles — For the most accurate spend data, check your provider's own dashboard (e.g., console.anthropic.com for Claude usage)

Cost tracking improvements

Model-aware per-token pricing is being enhanced to cover all supported providers. If you see $0 costs for a provider, pricing data for that model may not yet be available.