What costs what
Hosted model calls cost money. Who pays depends on the payer: your own API keys, the organization's keys or Crewshal. Local coding through your Claude or ChatGPT plan is separate. Costs in Crewshal are estimates at list prices.
What uses moneyLink to What uses money
- Hosted model calls by workers, the CEO, Ava and the website import.
- Platform work on Crewshal's credentials, such as web search, embeddings, sandboxed commands and delegate rounds.
Who paysLink to Who pays
- Your own Claude or ChatGPT plan, through the runner, for local coding after planning. Crewshal does not bill this. Your plan's own limits apply.
- Your own API keys, or the organization's. The provider bills you. Each account can have its own daily and monthly budget.
- Crewshal's credentials, within the included allowance and your budgets.
See Who pays for work.
Estimates, not billsLink to Estimates, not bills
Crewshal shows costs at list prices. They are estimates, not vendor charges. For local coding on a subscription, Crewshal may show a notional price.
See spendLink to See spend
Budgets & Spend shows spend per day, by provider and model, top spenders, by purpose and per task.
Plans and invoicesLink to Plans and invoices
The Billing page shows plans, access and invoices when the operator of your Crewshal server has set up billing. Only the owner can change the plan. See Paid plans and checkout.
Checked against the product on 2026-10-05.
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- Who pays for workThe payer is the source that pays for a piece of work: automatic, the requester's own plan or keys, the organization's keys, or Crewshal.
- Budgets and spend limitsBudgets cap model spend per day for the organization and each worker, and per work item. Crewshal reserves spend before each call, so it never goes over by more than one call.
- The included allowanceThe included allowance is an amount of Crewshal's own model credits that a new organization may use. Your Crewshal server's operator sets it. It can be zero.
- Paid plans and checkoutThe Billing page shows plans and invoices only when the operator of your Crewshal server has set up billing. Until then, prices and checkout stay off.