Billing & Economy
Documentation and guides for OutcomeDev.
OutcomeDev operates on a Multi-Resource Economy designed to give you precise control over your engineering costs. This document explains the different credit types, how your plan's allowance works, and how to manage your resources effectively.
1. The Core Tiers
OutcomeDev offers two distinct ways to access resources: Plan Allowances and Permanent Credits.
Free Tier
- Daily Messages: 5 Orchestration Messages (Resets every 24h).
- Sandbox Runtime: 5 Hours monthly allowance (Resets each month).
- Scheduled Tasks: Up to 2 active schedules.
- Ideal for: Rapid prototyping and small personal experiments.
Pro Tier ($20/month)
- Monthly Messages: 200 Orchestration Messages (Resets every 30 days).
- Monthly Runtime: 20 Hours of high-performance sandbox compute.
- Unlimited Scheduling: High-precision crons (up to 1-minute intervals).
- Extended Sandboxes: Stay active for up to 5 hours continuously.
- Priority Models: Access to the latest agentic reasoning models.
2. The Four Credit Types
For users with high-intensity workloads, we offer One-Time Top-Up Packs. These credits never expire and exist alongside your plan's allowance.
⚡ RTC (Runtime Credits)
- What it is: The compute power for your cloud sandboxes.
- Usage: Deducted for the entire time your sandbox is active (Live VM = Billed Time).
- Keep-Alive & Warm Window: For tasks where you anticipate needing follow-up conversations, you can enable Keep-Alive mode. This tells OutcomeDev to keep the environment running indefinitely. While Keep-Alive is active, the VM consumes your runtime budget even when idle. If you do not enable Keep-Alive, the environment stays active for a 5-minute Warm Window after the agent finishes. This period is also billed, as it allows for instant follow-up. You can stop the sandbox manually at any time to freeze your budget.
💬 MSG (Message Credits)
- What it is: Orchestration signaling between you and the OutcomeDev agents.
- Usage: 1 MSG is consumed per user-sent command.
🧠 TMC (Taskmaster Credits)
- What it is: High-level reasoning for Intent Seeding and Spec Architecture.
- Usage: 1 TMC is consumed when the system performs deep-repo analysis to suggest new outcomes or architect project READMEs.
3. Consumption Priority
- Plan Allowance First: The system will always exhaust your Daily/Monthly allowance (the "free" part of your plan) before touching your paid balance.
- Permanent Credits Second: Once your daily/monthly quota is reached, the system will seamlessly transition to your Permanent Credits.
- Real-Time Interceptor: If all resources are exhausted mid-task, the system will pause and offer a Top-Up Modal, allowing you to resume exactly where you left off.
4. Platform Guardrails
- Idle Timeouts: Sandboxes that show no activity for 15 minutes are automatically cleaned up to preserve your credits.
- Daily Ceilings: Daily reset limits prevent a single runaway process from exhausting a monthly budget in a single day.
- Sandbox Reaper: An automated safety net that monitors all active resources every 5 minutes. If your account hits a zero balance, the system will gracefully shut down active sandboxes to protect you.
5. Frequently Asked Questions
Do my credits expire?
No. Purchased credits (Top-Up Packs) never expire. Only your Plan Allowance resets on a schedule.
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