Kestrel Labs / Production / Billing
Simulated billing · demonstration data · last sync Oct 18, 2026, 14:22 UTC
Estimated invoice at close
$1,200.00
Scale plan fee $1,200.00 + projected postpaid usage $0.00
Upcoming
Issued Nov 1 · charged to default method
Usage accrued · Oct 1–Oct 18
$8,863.79
+37.8%
vs Sep 1–18
Projected $15,657 by Oct 31 · 80% band $12.7K–$18.6K
Prepaid balance · now
$7,295.10
≈ 13 days at the 7-day draw of $546/day
$10,000 pending bank transfer, not yet spendable
Included
Promotional
Prepaid
Postpaid
Forecast
Credits added
Daily usage charges, USD · cycle Oct 1–Oct 31
Forecast days use the weekday-adjusted run rate from Overview ($511/day base). Auto-recharge is on: 1 recharge of $6,000 projected before Oct 31.
How usage becomes the invoice
−
Usage charges
$8,863.79
tokens × rate
Credits are applied in this order every day. Only postpaid usage and the plan fee are charged to your payment method; prepaid credits were paid for when they were bought, so they are not charged again.
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What this cycle’s numbers mean. Every signal states how it was calculated, so a forecast is never presented as a certainty.
Projected close
Watch
$15,657
$8,863 accrued in 18 days; $6,793 expected over the remaining 13. 80% band $12,697–$18,617.
How it's calculated · Weekday-adjusted run rate of the last 14 days, band ±1.28σ of residuals. Same model as the Overview forecast.
Optimization
Healthy
$2,879/mo
Route short support replies to Gemini 2.5 Flash ($1,338); Cache repository context in the code review agent ($939); Move nightly summaries to batch processing ($601).
How it's calculated · Savings opportunities from Overview, estimated on the last 30 days. Each carries its own assumption there.
See them in Overview
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Prepaid and promotional balances day by day. Markers show every purchase, grant, expiry, refund and declined recharge; the dashed line projects the balance to Oct 31.
Prepaid balance
Promotional balance
Projected
Reconciles to the cent
$57,000.00
credits bought
−
$5,000.00
refunded
−
$44,704.90
drawn by usage
=
$7,295.10
prepaid balance
Auto-recharge
On
Projected: 1 recharge totaling $6,000 before Oct 31, charged to Mastercard ···· 5100.
Settings apply from now on and only change the forecast; past recharges keep the rules that were active at the time.
Credit wallets
Prepaid credits
$7,295.10
Bought with a card or bank transfer. Never expire. Refundable on request. Used after included allowance and promotional credits.
Pending · VLR-2026-0020
Pending
$10,000.00
Bank transfer due Oct 31, 2026. Not spendable until received.
Launch credit
$500
Promotional · Any model · Fully used on Apr 15
Open-model hackathon credit
$1,000
Promotional · Gemini 2.5 Flash and DeepSeek V3 only · $285.38 expired unused on Aug 31
Service credit · Sep 22 error spike
$250
Service credit · Any model · Fully used on Oct 3
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Usage charges for the selected cycle by model, provider, workload or token type. Open any line to see the tokens × rate arithmetic behind it.
Cycle history · usage by funding source + plan fee
Included
Promotional
Prepaid
Postpaid
Plan fee
Plans: Starter in April, Growth May–July, Scale since August. April starts on Apr 12, when the workspace opened.
Usage charges · October 2026 · to date
$8,863.79
+37.8%
vs Sep 1–18
Billing cycles are calendar months in UTC; analytics ranges on other pages are rolling windows. This open cycle covers 18 days so far, so it is compared with the first 18 days of the previous cycle.
Rate card · how tokens become charges
Illustrative rates configured for this demo — not verified current provider pricing.
Model
Input / 1M
Output / 1M
Charge per line = tokens ÷ 1,000,000 × rate, rounded to the cent. Usage is rated at these list rates; the plan’s included allowance and credits are applied afterwards, never by changing the rate.
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Usage and plan invoices, credit purchases, refunds and voids. Select one to inspect its lines, credits applied and payment.
22 invoices
Paid to date $56,482.79
Open $10,000.00
Usage and plan invoice
Upcoming invoice
Upcoming
Period
Oct 1 – Oct 31, 2026
Issues
Nov 1, 2026
Due
Nov 16, 2026
Payment
Default method on issue
Scale plan
Oct 1 – Oct 31
$1,200.00
Usage · tokens × rate
Claude Sonnet 4.5 · input
$3,079.67
1.03B tokens × $3.00 / 1M
Claude Sonnet 4.5 · output
$3,950.40
263.4M tokens × $15.00 / 1M
GPT-4o · input
$692.31
276.9M tokens × $2.50 / 1M
GPT-4o · output
$676.35
67.6M tokens × $10.00 / 1M
Gemini 2.5 Flash · input
$85.08
283.6M tokens × $0.30 / 1M
Gemini 2.5 Flash · output
$168.06
67.2M tokens × $2.50 / 1M
DeepSeek V3 · input
$96.70
358.2M tokens × $0.27 / 1M
DeepSeek V3 · output
$115.22
104.7M tokens × $1.10 / 1M
Usage subtotal
$8,863.79
Included usage · Scale plan
$1,000 per cycle
−$1,000.00
Service credit · Sep 22 error spike
Service credit
−$250.00
Prepaid credits applied
−$7,613.79
Tax
Not calculated in this demo
$0.00
Due so far
$1,200.00
Accruing. Figures are to the last sync on Oct 18, 14:22 UTC; the final invoice is issued on Nov 1.
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Every financial event with running balances. Expand a usage draw to see how each model’s charge was settled.
21 transactions
Prepaid added $57,000.00
Prepaid drawn or refunded $5,000.00
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Compare plans and schedule a change for the next cycle. The open cycle is never re-priced.
Current plan Scale since Aug 1 · renews Nov 1
Starter
$0
per cycle
No included usage
3 seats · 14-day request logs
Usage and cost dashboards
2 projects
Email support
Growth
$300
per cycle
$200 included usage
10 seats · 90-day request logs
Everything in Starter
Unlimited projects
Model performance tracing
Budget alerts
Scale
Current
$1,200
per cycle
$1,000 included usage
Unlimited seats · 13-month request logs
Everything in Growth
SSO and audit log
Priority support, 4h response
Invoice billing (Net 30)
Plan changes are simulated and take effect at the next cycle boundary — no proration and no charge today. Estimates assume October's forecast base rate of $511/day continues for 30 days; usage is rated identically on every plan.
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Fictional, masked methods for this demo. Nothing is charged, verified or stored.
MC
Mastercard ···· 5100
Finance card · expires 11/29 · added Sep 29, 2026
Default
Bank transfer ···· 6789
Operating account · invoice billing · added Oct 6, 2026