Plans and usage

Endue meters the thing that actually costs money: model usage. Everything else — agents, conversations, artifacts, connectors — is not billed per action.

What consumes usage

Every run sends your conversation, the agent’s prompt, and its tool results to a model, and the model answers. Both directions count.

That means usage is driven by:

Driver	Effect
Which model	The largest factor by far — prices across the catalog differ by more than 10×
Reasoning effort	Higher effort spends more tokens before answering
How many steps a run takes	Each tool result goes back into the model
Conversation length	A long thread is re-read on every step
Routines	They run whether or not you are watching, on their own schedule

The weekly limit

Your plan carries an allowance measured over a rolling week, not a monthly balance you can spend all at once. When the week’s allowance is used up, runs are declined until the window moves on.

Two consequences worth planning around:

• A single heavy day cannot exhaust a month.
• A routine on a short interval with an expensive model is the most common way to hit the limit, because it spends steadily while you are not watching.

Where to see the current numbers

Your plan, its allowance, and what you have used are in Settings → Usage. Current prices and what each plan includes are on the pricing page in the app — those change, and the app is the authoritative place to read them.

Keeping usage down

In rough order of effect:

1. Match the model to the job. A fast, cheap model for routine work, a strong one for the few hard messages. See Choosing a model.
2. Pin a model on each routine, so scheduled work has a predictable cost.
3. Lower reasoning effort for work that is not multi-step.
4. Start new conversations when the topic changes — long threads are re-sent on every step.
5. Turn off built-in tool groups an agent does not need; every advertised tool is context on every step.
6. Widen routine intervals. Hourly is rarely worth four times what four-hourly costs.

Bring your own key

If you would rather pay a model provider directly, connect your own key and Endue will use it for that model’s calls. See Bring your own key.

Limits

• Usage is metered per account, not per agent. The usage view shows the account total.
• Runs are declined when the weekly allowance is exhausted. Work in flight is not rolled back, but new runs will not start.
• Figures in the usage view can lag a run by a short period while it is settled.

Related

Choosing a modelThe single biggest lever on what you spend.

Bring your own keyPay the provider directly instead.

RoutinesScheduled work — the usage you are least likely to notice.