Credits and plans
Prepaid credits (1 credit = 1 device-minute), the 60-minute signup grant, credit packs, and the Free, Dev and Team plan limits.
AkaPhone is prepaid. You buy credits, and running devices spend them. There is no subscription and nothing is charged to a card automatically.
1 credit = 1 device-minute. A device that is running costs 1 credit per started minute, whatever it is doing. Queued and booting time is free, and so are tasks, streaming, APK installs, snapshots and API calls. Model tokens are billed by your model provider on your own key.
Free minutes#
Every new account gets 60 credits once, at first sign-in. That is an hour of one device. No card is needed.
Credit packs#
| Pack | Price | Credits | Per minute |
|---|---|---|---|
250 |
$10 | 250 | $0.040 |
1375 |
$50 | 1,375 (+10%) | $0.036 |
6000 |
$200 | 6,000 (+20%) | $0.033 |
team |
$199 | 6,000, plus the Team plan for 30 days | $0.033 |
Checkout is hosted by Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record, which handles sales tax and VAT. Credits do not expire. See Billing for buying, receipts and refunds.
Plans#
Your plan sets limits, not prices. It changes automatically with what you buy:
| Free | Dev | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you get it | Sign up | Buy any pack | Buy the team pack |
| Devices at once | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Live view frame rate | 2 fps | 4 fps | 5 fps |
| Snapshots held | 1 | 5 | 20 |
| Artifact and task retention | 7 days | 30 days | 90 days |
- Your first purchase of any pack moves you from Free to Dev permanently.
- The Team pack sets the Team plan for 30 days. Buying it again while Team is active extends it by 30 days from the current end date. When it ends you are back on Dev, and any credits you have left stay yours.
- Enterprise plans with custom limits are arranged by contract.
GET /v1/me returns your plan, when it expires (plan_expires_at, Team only), your concurrency limit and your balance.
How the meter works#
- Minute 1 is charged the moment the device becomes
running; minute n is charged at ready + (n − 1) minutes. - Before charging a minute AkaPhone checks your balance is at least 1. If it is not, the device stops with reason
credits. - Viewers of the live stream get a
credits.lowevent while your balance is 5 or less. - Creating a device needs a balance of at least 1 (
402 insufficient_credits). - If the host running a device fails, the device becomes
lostand minutes prepaid after the host's last heartbeat are refunded.
Usage is written to your ledger in 10-minute windows per device, so the ledger has one usage row per device per window rather than one per minute. GET /v1/usage and used_this_month in GET /v1/me include minutes not yet written, so they are always exact.
Worked examples#
- A 5-minute test run on one device: 5 credits, $0.20 at the $10 pack rate.
- Three devices for 20 minutes each in CI: 60 credits.
- A device left running and forgotten: stopped after 30 idle minutes, so at most about 31 credits.