Billing & plans

Hydracept has four organization plans: Free, Indie, Studio, and Custom. Plans control concurrency, history retention, project scale, and API limits. They do not change the 0% inference markup on BYOK — provider charges always go to your OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Meshy, or other accounts.

See live prices and limits on hydracept.com/#pricing.

Free

• $0 for individual developers
• Organization limits for a single project and environment (see pricing page)
• One-time smoke budget so python -m hydracept smoke can verify integration before BYOK
• Connect provider keys on Connections / BYOK for production generation

Indie & Studio (paid)

Paid plans raise execution, concurrency, and retention limits. Inference still runs on your provider keys (BYOK).

How to upgrade (Studio)

1. Sign in at app.hydracept.com/login
2. Open Billing in Studio: app.hydracept.com/studio/billing
3. Choose Upgrade to Indie or Upgrade to Studio — checkout is hosted by Stripe when enabled
4. Use Manage billing for invoices, payment method, or cancellation

BYOK

Hydracept does not markup inference on provider keys you connect. You pay your provider directly at their rates. Hydracept plan fees cover platform limits, Studio, durable jobs, and support scale — not per-token inference markup.

The Free smoke budget is for first-run verification only. Sustained text, image, audio, and 3D generation requires BYOK.

API

• GET /v1/billing/summary — current plan and subscription status (session auth, org owner)
• GET /v1/billing/plans — purchasable plans
• POST /v1/billing/checkout-session — start Stripe Checkout (planKey: hydracept.indie.v1 or hydracept.studio.v1)
• POST /v1/billing/portal-session — Stripe Customer Portal

When you hit limits

• 402 / budget errors — review project budgets and plan limits
• 403 — plan entitlement blocked the capability; upgrade or contact support for Custom
• 429 — rate limit; retry with backoff

See Rate limits & quotas.

Related

• Authentication & Activation
• Connections / BYOK
• Terms