Credits (a prepaid wallet)
Orca bills on prepaid credits. Your organization holds a credit wallet, and runs draw down from it as they meter LLM usage. When the balance runs low, you top up. Top-ups go through checkout: Polar is the payment integration behind it. From the dashboard you start a checkout, complete payment, and the credits land in your wallet.Credits are consumed as agents run and call models. To keep an eye on the balance and burn rate, watch the Usage dashboard.
Spend caps (guardrails that gate runs)
Spend caps are per-tenant daily and monthly limits that gate runs. Before a run starts, Orca checks the tenant’s spend against its caps; if the tenant is over cap, the run is refused. Caps are a safety guardrail against runaway spend, distinct from the wallet balance itself. Runs against a published agent go through a second, distinct gate: a per-published-agent monthly spend cap, checked after the tenant-level cap. If a published agent has burned through its own monthly cap, the run is refused even if the owning tenant is still within its own limits. Members can view the current cap and spend from the dashboard, and admins can set the org’s monthly spend cap there. Only the monthly cap is self-serve; the daily cap is a system-level backstop and is not exposed in the UI.Usage metering
Every run records tokens and cost as it meters LLM usage. This per-run metering is what draws down credits, enforces spend caps, and powers the Usage dashboard, where you can break spend down over time.For operators / self-host
Spend caps are enabled by default, not opt-in, and tunable through environment variables:
Set
SPEND_CAP_ENABLED=false to disable the gate entirely.
Threshold email alerts (for example, approaching the monthly cap) are delivered via Resend. Alerts are scoped to the monthly cap only, there is no daily-cap alert path, and are deduped per calendar month. They also depend on configuration: unless both RESEND_API_KEY and RESEND_FROM are set, an unconfigured deployment sends nothing.
Pricing and specific credit amounts are managed in-product and on the hosted plan. This page intentionally avoids quoting figures. Check the dashboard for current balances, caps, and rates.
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Roles & Access
Who can manage billing and caps.