Billing configuration

Billing configuration tells analytics how you pay for a connection. It does not change provider billing and does not purchase, cancel, or modify a plan.

Open the $ action on a connected-provider row, or set billing while adding a provider.

Pricing models

Model	Configure	Cost & Value behavior
PAYG	No subscription amount	Uses one provider spend source or, when unavailable, a sufficiently covered pricing estimate.
Subscription	Amount, three-letter currency, monthly/yearly cadence, optional billing anchor	Allocates the commitment across the selected range using real billing-period overlap.
Free	No amount	Uses a zero configured cost basis.

The billing anchor is a known boundary of your provider billing period. Adding it makes allocation line up with actual renewals. Without it, allocation is still calculated but marked estimated.

Recommended examples

OpenAI Codex   Subscription   20 USD   Monthly
OpenCode Go   Subscription   10 USD   Monthly
DeepSeek      PAYG

For subscriptions, quota dollar values describe allowances and are not treated as billed PAYG spend. For DeepSeek, the balance is account state rather than historical spend; a Hermes-derived pricing estimate may be used only when its pricing coverage reaches the safe threshold.

If billing information is missing or incompatible with the observed currency, Cost & Value leaves comparisons unavailable and explains why. It does not guess an amount or perform currency conversion.

For formulas, source precedence, and coverage rules, see Understanding cost & value.