Hydracept

Billing & plans

Hydracept has four public plans: Free, Builder, Team, and Enterprise. Plans control capacity, retention, seats, and shared-workspace features — not routing quality, pin semantics, or receipt evidence.

See live prices on hydracept.com/pricing.

> Bring your own provider at 0%. Use Hydracept-managed providers at provider price + 6%. Upgrade your plan when you need more Hydracept capacity or organizational features.

BYOK (bring your own key)

Connect your own provider credentials and pay your provider directly. Hydracept adds 0% inference markup. Provider-spend guardrails help you set a daily safety budget and are not an additional Hydracept charge.

Durable text jobs use deferred processing automatically: Hydracept submits them on the provider's latency-tolerant tier at 50% off standard token rates. Eligible OpenAI Responses pins stay on standard processing unless you set processing: "deferred". Interactive invoke and stream stay on standard processing. See features.deferredProcessing on capability descriptors.

Managed inference (PAYG)

Hydracept can run generation on platform credentials using a prepaid wallet:

Example:


Provider basis              $1.00
Hydracept service fee (6%)  $0.06
──────────────────────────────────
Your total                  $1.06

Check capability discovery for managed availability:

Receipts keep the fee snapshot they were created under. Historical charges are never recomputed when the catalog fee changes.

Free ($0)

Genuinely useful for evaluation, hobby projects, and occasional generation.

Two concurrent durable jobs is the conversion pressure — not capability gating.

Builder ($19 / month)

For a serious individual developer who has outgrown Free.

Primary upgrade trigger: two concurrent jobs is slowing me down.

Team ($149 / month)

Organizational production, not the first paid tier.

Inference can still run on BYOK at 0% Hydracept fee. Managed execution remains PAYG + 6%.

Enterprise

Sales-only. Larger teams, volume commitments, SLA, SSO, private networking, custom retention, and contractual terms. Request Enterprise at support@hydracept.com — there is no self-serve checkout.

How to upgrade (Studio)

  1. Sign in at app.hydracept.com/login
  2. Open Billing in Studio: app.hydracept.com/studio/billing
  3. Choose Builder ($19) or Team ($149) — checkout is hosted by Stripe
  4. An upgrade immediately refreshes admission capacity. You do not recreate the account.
  5. Use Manage billing for invoices, payment method, or cancellation
  6. Add wallet funds from the same page or POST /v1/billing/wallet/top-up-session
  7. Set provider safety budgets on the same page (not a Hydracept charge)

API

When you hit limits

Capacity limits are machine-readable. A durable concurrency error looks like:


{
  "code": "DURABLE_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT",
  "message": "This project currently has 2 durable jobs running and the free plan allows 2.",
  "details": {
    "current": 2,
    "plan": "free",
    "upgrade": {
      "plan": "builder",
      "displayName": "Builder",
      "monthlyUsd": 19,
      "concurrentDurableJobs": 10
    }
  }
}

See Rate limits & quotas.