Provider price + 5%
We cut the Gateway rate from 25% over the provider's price to 5%. A plan now pays for Lobstack, and the models are passed through near cost.
Until today a call through the Lobstack Gateway cost the provider's list price plus 25%. From today it costs the provider's price plus 5%, and the receipt on every call shows both numbers, so you can check the 5% yourself.
Why
We were selling tokens with a margin on top, while the product is everything around the tokens: the agents, the connectors, the approvals, the receipts, the client budgets. So the plan now pays for that, and the models are passed through near cost.
What a plan includes
- Developer, $29 a month: $10 of model usage included, at provider prices. After that, provider price + 5%.
- Agency, $99 a month: $30 of model usage included, at provider prices. After that, provider price + 5%.
- Scale, $299 a month: $100 of model usage included, at provider prices. After that, provider price + 5%.
Included usage is counted at the provider's own price: $10 included is $10 of what the provider charges, not $10 of ours. It resets every month. Calls on your own provider keys stay unlimited and free on every paid plan.
Topping up
Past the included usage, add credit in Console › Settings › Billing: any whole amount from $25 to $1,000. Credit is spent at provider price + 5%, only after the month's included usage is used, and it does not expire.
The smallest top-up is $25 for a plain reason: at 5%, a $10 top-up earns less than the card fee on it.
What did not change
Calls already made keep the price they were charged; every ledger row carries the rate it was priced at. Free still gets $1 of credit every Monday, and the $5 first-sign-in credit from the app is unchanged.
The plans are on the pricing page.
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