> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.agentbees.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Billing overview

> Three ways to pay: a flat monthly plan, pay-per-use metering, or usage add-ons.

AgentBees bills in one of two **modes**, chosen from the tabs at the top of
**Admin → Billing**:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Monthly" icon="calendar" href="/billing/monthly-plans">
    A flat monthly plan (Free / Pro / Team) with a hard concurrency cap — no overage. Add extra
    shared-pool capacity as a card-billed add-on.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Pay per use" icon="gauge" href="/billing/pay-per-use">
    Metered by the hour per active workspace, drawn from a prepaid wallet that never expires. Idle
    costs nothing.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## The base workspace

Every workspace starts from a fixed **base image** and bills from there:

| Base image    | vCPU   | RAM     | Disk    |
| ------------- | ------ | ------- | ------- |
| **Workspace** | ½ vCPU | 512 MiB | 500 MiB |
| **Web IDE**   | 1 vCPU | 1 GiB   | 1 GiB   |

The base is the same in both billing modes. Extra CPU, RAM, and disk are layered
on top as **add-ons** (see [Add-ons](/billing/add-ons)).

<Note>
  The base sizes are configured per deployment. Self-hosted operators can tune them (for example,
  raising the Web IDE disk on cloud clusters) — the numbers above are the defaults.
</Note>

## Which mode should I pick?

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Choose Monthly if…">
    You want a predictable bill and a known concurrency ceiling, and you run workspaces regularly.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Choose Pay-per-use if…">
    Your usage is bursty. You only pay for the hours a workspace actually runs, with no seats and no
    monthly minimum.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

<Warning>
  Switching modes is a commitment: once an org funds a prepaid wallet it's locked to Pay-per-use,
  and a paid monthly plan locks you to Monthly until you change it. The billing page shows a note
  explaining why the other tab is locked.
</Warning>

## What you're charged for

* **Compute** — the workspace itself (base + any extra vCPU/RAM). Flat monthly on
  a plan; metered by the hour on pay-per-use.
* **Storage add-ons** — optional backup storage & log retention ($1.99/mo,
  includes 2.5 GiB, then $0.50/GiB), deducted from the wallet and renewed monthly.
* **Seats** *(Enterprise/metered only)* — a small per-active-seat fee.

<Info>
  Before any charge — subscribing, switching, funding your wallet, enabling backup, or buying pool
  capacity — you must accept the **Terms & Conditions**, which acknowledge the base-image specs. See
  [Terms](/billing/terms).
</Info>