How much to charge plus how many credits?

General Questions
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Hi there - I’ve tired so hard to wrap my head around this but I am having the hardest time. I’ve created 12 agents to help my target customer. I was thinking of charging 29$/month for access to this but I have no idea how to calculate how many credits I can give plus still making money (also after deducting my subscription and all the fees). Is there any documentation on how to calculate this? thank you!

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This becomes very straightforward once you understand the difference between tokens (LLM cost) and user credits.

1. Tokens = Your Actual Cost

Every message (question + response) uses tokens, which are what you pay for.

  • Example:
    A simple interaction might use 10,000 tokens ≈ $0.01

2. Credits = What Your Users Spend

You define your own pricing for users in the Studio.

  • Example setup:
    • You give users 10,000 credits for $29
    • Internally, 10,000 credits = $1 of actual cost

3. Converting Cost → Credits

Now convert the real cost into credits:

  • If $1 = 10,000 credits (given to user), then
  • $0.01 = 1/100 of $1

So:

  • 10,000 tokens ÷ 100 = 100 credits

:white_check_mark: Final Result:

If a request costs $0.01 in tokens, the user is charged 100 credits

Note that its automatically calculated in the settings so you can put your own % on how much profit you want to make. So instead of just costing the user 100 credits for $0.01 cost to you, you could as easily charge them 500 credits or just 50 credits from the 10 000 credits you give them.

How the system calculates the profit margin
The calculator in “Settings” automatically shows you, your profit % which changes depending on what model you are using since it uses the average cost per message, which again changes depending on the model and how long the answers are which you get.

example
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Regarding costs you can simply calculate

  • What you bill: $29
  • Pickaxe take: 10%
  • Stripe take: ~3 % (check the actual number from their page)
  • Your cost = The amount of tokens you give so if you give for example 50 000 tokens and set the price as 1 $ per 10 000 tokens, your cost on running the LLMs is $5 per month (if the users uses all of their tokens).

Meaning your profit is calculated as:
$ 29 (what you bill) - $2.9 (pickaxes take) - $0.87 (Stripes take) - $5 (your LLM cost)

These equal to
$20,23 profit