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1# Billing operations: costs, margin and prices
2
3How g1t checks what it charges against what Cloudflare charges it, keeps
4prices at cost plus 20%, and tells staff when the margin slips. Internal.
5Code: `services/billing/src/costs.rs` (reading the bill), `margin.rs`
6(reconciliation, drift, alerts), `pricing.rs` (versions, proposals,
7notice), `keeper.rs` (sandbox and Workers for Platforms measurements),
8`budget.rs` (what g1t pays for itself, and its caps; see
9[Spend caps](#spend-caps)).
10Page: sudo **Costs & margin** (`/costs`).
11
12Several Cloudflare products g1t runs on are new. Artifacts bills
13"operations" from 2026-10-14 without defining them (see
14[ARTIFACTS.md](ARTIFACTS.md), M1). So nothing here hard-codes a product
15list or a unit: every line Cloudflare bills is kept, and how a line maps
16to what g1t sells is data you change from sudo, without a deploy.
17
18## Data sources
19
20| Source | What | Where it lands |
21| --- | --- | --- |
22| Billable usage, `GET /accounts/{account}/billable-usage?from=&to=` | One row per service per day in FOCUS columns: `ServiceFamilyName`, `ServiceName`, `ChargePeriodStart`, `PricingQuantity`, `ContractedCost` / `BilledCost` / `ListCost`. Every product g1t uses appears once it is used: Workers, Workers for Platforms, D1, KV, R2, Queues, Containers, Durable Objects, Artifacts, Browser Rendering, Workers AI, Vectorize, Cloudflare for SaaS, Email. Inside an included amount the cost is 0. | `cost_lines`, source `billable_usage` |
23| GraphQL `artifactsEventsAdaptiveGroups` | Artifacts' own count by `date`, `eventType` and `repositoryName`. Operations are `create`, `fork`, `push`, `pull`, `delete`; errors (`rateLimited`, `serverError`, …) are kept but not counted. | `cost_lines`, source `artifacts_events`; per workspace (from the store key `<workspace>--<repo>`; a pull request's working copy, `pulls--<id>`, is its repository's workspace's, from repos' `pull_owners`) in `own_counts` as `cloudflare_git` |
24| GraphQL `aiGatewayRequestsAdaptiveGroups`, filtered to `AI_GATEWAY_ID` | What AI Gateway priced g1t's own provider traffic at, by `date`, `provider`, `model` and `wholesale`: `count`, `sum.cost` (dollars), `sum.tokensIn`/`tokensOut`/`cacheReadTokens`/`cacheWriteTokens`. Field names checked against Cloudflare's schema (introspection of `AccountAiGatewayRequestsAdaptiveGroups{Sum,Dimensions,Filter_InputObject}`). An adaptive (sampled) dataset: an estimate, close at g1t's volumes. Only g1t's hosted models go through this gateway: a workspace's own provider is called at its own address, never here. | `cost_lines`, source `ai_gateway`, product `ai_gateway_requests`: per day and model a line `<provider>_<model>` (requests, at the gateway's cost), and at no cost `…__tokens`, `…__cache_read_tokens`, `…__cache_write_tokens`; Cloudflare-billed (unified billing) requests are prefixed `wholesale__`. Mapped to `models` (migration 0036). A re-read day replaces all its gateway lines. |
25| The ledger | Every charge: its cost at the price book's cost, what it was charged at price, what paid for it. | read, never written |
26| `pending_usage` | Month-end meters (git, storage, scans, embeddings, the cache) as they stand. | snapshotted daily into `pending_days` |
27| `plan_payments` | The plan's $20. | read |
28| repos `git_operations` | Operations customers are charged for, per workspace, counted by repos through its `operation_mapping`. | `own_counts` meter `git_operations` |
29| Subscriptions, `GET /accounts/{account}/subscriptions` | What g1t pays each month whatever it uses (Workers Paid, add-ons): each subscription that is paid, trialing or awaiting payment, at its price over its frequency. Not on the billable-usage bill. Read in the daily run with the bill's token; a failure is logged and the last read stays. | `cf_subscriptions` (one row) |
30| repos `artifacts_usage` | Every raw meter of the git store (`git.fetch`, `git.receive_pack`, `binding.*`, …) per day and workspace, with repos' `operation_mapping`. | `own_counts` meters `artifacts_<raw meter>`, and `cost_operations` (raw counts × the mapping's `cost_operations`: what g1t expects Cloudflare to bill) |
31
32A meter's slug is Cloudflare's name lower-cased with words joined by `_`
33and the "(First … included)" note dropped: `Workers for Platforms CPU ms
34(First 60M ms are included)` under `Workers` is product `workers`, meter
35`workers_for_platforms_cpu_ms`. Several rows of the same day and meter
36(regions, tiers) are added together before they are stored.
37
38## Credentials
39
40| Secret on g1t-billing | Permissions | Used for |
41| --- | --- | --- |
42| `CLOUDFLARE_BILLING_TOKEN` (optional) | Account: **Billing Read**, Account: **Account Analytics Read**, for the g1t account only | Reading the bill, the Artifacts events and the subscriptions |
43| `CLOUDFLARE_USAGE_TOKEN` (exists) | Billing Read, Account Analytics Read, AI Gateway Read | The keeper (settling runs from the gateway's logs); also the bill when `CLOUDFLARE_BILLING_TOKEN` is not set. AI Gateway's analytics are read with this token first and, if that is refused, with the bill's: Cloudflare answers a token without AI Gateway Read with no rows rather than an error, so the bill's token would read as a gateway that priced nothing |
44
45With neither, the daily run reconciles only what g1t counted itself, and
46the page says the bill cannot be read. Nothing fails. To set the scoped one:
47
481. Cloudflare dashboard → My Profile → API Tokens → Create Token → Custom token.
492. Permissions: Account · Billing · Read; Account · Account Analytics · Read.
503. Account resources: Include · the g1t account. No zone permissions.
514. `cd services/billing && npx wrangler secret put CLOUDFLARE_BILLING_TOKEN`.
525. In sudo, Costs & margin → **Run the analysis now**.
53
54Alerts are emailed through the `EMAIL` binding (Cloudflare Email Sending)
55to `COSTS_ALERT_EMAIL` (`hey@flagon.io`). An empty value sends none.
56
57## Schedule
58
59The daily cron (`17 4 * * *`, `keeper::DAILY`) runs, in order:
60
611. The keeper's measurements (sandbox seconds, app requests and CPU), each
62 a proposal now, not a direct change.
632. `costs_daily`:
64 1. Read the bill, the Artifacts events and AI Gateway's analytics. The first run reads the last
65 31 days (GraphQL keeps 31); later runs the last 4, since Cloudflare
66 restates recent days, or back to the last day read after a gap.
67 Lines are upserted on `(day, source, product, meter)`, so a re-read
68 replaces, never adds.
69 2. g1t's own counts for the same days (replaced per day).
70 3. Snapshot `pending_usage` into `pending_days`.
71 4. Reconcile the last 31 days (further back after a gap) into
72 `margin_days` and `workspace_costs`
73 (replaced per day).
74 5. Drift over the last 7 days into `cost_drift`.
75 6. Unit costs over the last 30 days, proposed to the price book.
76 7. Apply price versions whose date has come.
77 8. Open, update and close margin alerts; email new ones.
78 9. Email owners on the plan about rises to come.
79
80**Run the analysis now** at the top of sudo's Costs & margin and Bill & pricing pages
81(`admin_run_costs`) runs all of step 2 at once, alerts included, with no
82need to wait for 04:17 UTC. Running it twice is safe: every step replaces
83what it wrote.
84
85## Reconciliation math
86
87Every Cloudflare line goes to one of g1t's products ("buckets") by
88`cost_map`: the row for its product with the longest matching meter
89prefix, `*` last. A line no row claims goes to `unmapped`.
90
91| Bucket | Cloudflare | Paid for by (`revenue_map`) |
92| --- | --- | --- |
93| `sandboxes` | Containers, Durable Objects compute duration | `sandbox`, `self_hosted`, `builds` |
94| `deployments` | Workers for Platforms | `deployments` |
95| `git` | Artifacts operations (and its events, as counts) | `git` |
96| `repo_storage` | Artifacts storage | `storage` |
97| `actions_cache` | R2 | `cache` |
98| `embeddings` | Workers AI, Vectorize | `context` |
99| `security` | (Workers CPU, under `platform`) | `security` |
100| `domains` | Cloudflare for SaaS | `domains` |
101| `models` | not Cloudflare: AI Gateway's settled cost on the ledger; AI Gateway's own daily total (`ai_gateway_requests`) beside it, to check it | every other task (agent runs) |
102| `platform` | Workers, D1, KV, Queues, Email, Browser Rendering, other Durable Objects | the plan's price |
103
104For each day and bucket:
105
106- **Cloudflare cost** = Σ the bucket's lines' cost, as billed: after the
107 included allowances, so a month inside them costs $0 here as on
108 Cloudflare's Billable usage page. `models` uses the ledger's cost of the
109 tokens instead; that is paid to the model providers and is not on
110 Cloudflare's bill. Its "Cloudflare" column is what AI Gateway priced the
111 same traffic at, which drift compares with the ledger (below); it is
112 never added to the cost.
113- **Own cost** = Σ the ledger's `cost_micros` for the bucket's keys (the
114 price book's cost when charged), plus month-end deltas. A workspace's own
115 model provider is no cost to g1t.
116- **Value** = what customers were charged at price: `-amount_micros` plus
117 what the plan's included usage, a trial, the open-source pool or g1t paid.
118 g1t's own (comped) workspaces are valued at cost plus the margin.
119- **Cash** = what workspaces paid: `-amount_micros`, and the plan's price.
120 Never tax or card fees: a payment credits the balance, and
121 `plan_payments`, without them (see [Tax and the card fee](#tax-and-the-card-fee)).
122- **Given away** = the part of the cost that went on usage g1t paid for
123 itself on purpose, by why:
124 - **comped**: all of a comped workspace's cost, every bucket;
125 - **free use**: a free period's usage, the overruns g1t covered
126 (`ledger.given_micros`), and all of a workspace's cost on a day it had
127 nothing priced (free allowances);
128 - **trial** and **open-source pool**: what `trial_micros` and
129 `oss_micros` paid;
130 - **discount**: what a discount on an account's custom terms took below
131 cost plus the margin (`ledger.discount_micros`, see
132 [Margin floor](#margin-floor)). The usage is valued at its price, so a
133 discounted sale never reads as margin lost;
134 - **promotional credit** and **goodwill credit**: what credit staff gave
135 paid for, when it is spent (`given_credit_promotional_micros`,
136 `given_credit_goodwill_micros`, migration 0038). That usage's charge is
137 taken out of cash, so it is never money in. A refund is not here: see
138 [Credits from g1t](#credits-from-g1t).
139
140 Otherwise a workspace's day is split by those shares of its value at
141 price, and the same shares of each of its buckets' cost are given, its
142 part of running g1t included. The Team plan's included usage is sold:
143 the plan's price paid for it. Stored on `margin_days` (`given_micros`
144 and `given_<why>_micros`, `given_discount_micros` from migration 0036)
145 and `workspace_costs` (`given_micros`). Sudo's Bill & pricing page lists
146 comped, free use, trial and pool by name; the discount part is in the
147 total until the page names it (`givenDiscountMicros`).
148- **Month-end meters**: a day's figure is that day's `pending_days`
149 snapshot less the day before's, within a month. Their month-end ledger
150 entries are left out, so nothing is counted twice.
151- **Product margin** = (value − cost) / value.
152- **Sudo's statement** keeps apart:
153 - **Usage sold**: cash for usage against the cost of the usage buckets
154 less what was given. Its margin is the headline; at cost plus 20% it
155 sits near 16.7%.
156 - **Running g1t**: the plan's price against `platform` less its given
157 share.
158 - **Cloudflare subscriptions**: what Cloudflare lists, a month, over
159 the range (`cf_subscriptions`); until a read has worked,
160 `CLOUDFLARE_FIXED_MONTHLY_MICROS`, an estimate.
161 - **Not mapped**: billed, charged for by nothing.
162 - **Given away**: by why. A budget, watched under g1t's own spend, never
163 shown as a loss.
164 - **All in**: money in against all of it, with the figure without what
165 was given beside it. **Who g1t paid** splits the cost into Cloudflare
166 and the model providers.
167
168 The overall alert is (Σ cash − (Σ cost − Σ given)) / Σ cash.
169- **Quantities**: where a mapping names an `own_meter`, Cloudflare's
170 billed quantity of those lines (or, without one, Artifacts' operation
171 events) against g1t's own count.
172
173**Shared costs to workspaces.** A bucket's cost is shared in proportion
174to, first available: Cloudflare's own per-workspace count
175(`cloudflare_<bucket>`, today the Artifacts events by repository), g1t's
176own count, what its usage cost (so free use carries its own cost), what
177each was charged for it. `platform`
178and `unmapped` are shared by each workspace's share of all usage that
179day. Shares are whole micros that add up to the bill exactly (largest
180remainder).
181
182## Drift (last 7 days)
183
184| Kind | When | What to do |
185| --- | --- | --- |
186| Count | g1t's count and Cloudflare's differ by more than the mapping's `drift_percent` (10%) | Find out what Cloudflare counts: compare its events with `own_counts` `artifacts_*` and `cost_operations`. If it counts more (binding reads, `ls-refs`), either change repos' `operation_mapping` so customers are charged for what Cloudflare counts, or leave it and let the per-unit cost rise (below). |
187| Cost | Cloudflare charged more than `drift_percent` away from the price book's cost of the same usage, with at least `min_daily_cost` | A price is stale: check the proposals. |
188| Cost, on `models` | What AI Gateway priced g1t's own provider traffic at over the 7 days, against the ledger's model cost for the same days (billed to g1t: comped, free and trial use included, a workspace's own provider not), more than the `ai_gateway_requests` mapping's `drift_percent` (10%) apart, with at least `min_daily_cost`. A ledger with none of the gateway's cost is drift too, and so is a gateway that priced nothing against a ledger with at least `min_daily_cost` of model cost (no percentage): that is not agreement, it is a token that cannot see AI Gateway, or calls that went around it | The gateway higher: model calls g1t paid for and charged no one: runs not settled yet (they catch up within the hour), runs with no session, a run started without a billing ticket, or something else on g1t's gateway. The ledger higher: runs that reached a provider without the gateway. The detail adds why the gateway's own figure may be off: prompt-cache read and write tokens (the gateway prices them at its rates for cache tokens, which can lag the provider's; check against the provider's invoice), requests Cloudflare billed itself (unified billing: on Cloudflare's bill, not a provider's), and models with no price. Days are UTC by when a request ran (gateway) and when a charge was entered (ledger), so a run across midnight shifts a little between days; the 7-day sum absorbs it. |
189| Unpriced | Over the 7 days, a model in AI Gateway's analytics with tokens and $0 cost, or runs settled with `runs.gateway_note` (the gateway could not price all of a run) | The gateway has no price for a model g1t runs: add it in the gateway (custom cost) or route away from it. Until then those runs are charged no less than the sandbox reported (Claude Code's own price table), never $0 silently. |
190| Leak | Cost of at least `min_daily_cost` and nothing charged for it (never for `platform`), or a meter in `unmapped` | Map the meter (below), or decide it is overhead (`platform`). |
191
192## Prices: versions, proposals, notice
193
194- `price_versions` holds every price ever, never edited. `prices` is the
195 version in force. The daily run applies a version once its
196 `effective_at` has come, and adds the public `price_changes` record.
197 Ledger entries made from the price book carry `price_version` (the
198 version ids, comma-separated), so a past statement is always explained
199 by the prices of its day.
200- Proposals come from the keeper (sandbox seconds, app requests and CPU)
201 and the reconciler (mappings with `scale_to_own`: today git operations).
202 For git operations: Cloudflare's rate per its own operation (the median
203 over charged days of cost ÷ quantity) × (Cloudflare's operations ÷ g1t's)
204 × 1,000. If Cloudflare counts three for each one g1t counts, the per-1,000
205 price triples. At least 1,000 of g1t's operations are needed.
206- Decision (`pricing::decide`): under 2% is noise; more than 4× either way
207 is suspect and waits for staff; within `auto_apply_percent` (25%) it is
208 applied on its own when `auto_apply` is on; anything else waits.
209- Notice: a fall applies at once. A rise applies `notice_days` (14) after
210 the decision, and for a monthly meter (git, storage, cache, domains,
211 embeddings, scans) at the start of the month after that, so no month
212 is charged at two prices. Owners of workspaces on the plan are emailed
213 once per rise (`price_notices`), and the pricing page lists it with
214 "takes effect". Rises are never retroactive; margin protection is for
215 new usage once notice has run.
216- Staff approve or reject in sudo. A rejection needs a note.
217
218## Changing a mapping
219
220In sudo, Costs & margin → Bill & pricing → **Mappings**: Cloudflare's product and meter
221prefix (as **Cloudflare's lines** lists them; `*` for the rest of the
222product), g1t's product, and optionally:
223
224- **Price meter**: the price book meter the line measures.
225- **Own meter**: g1t's count of the same units (`own_counts.meter`).
226- **Scale to g1t's count**: price one of g1t's units at as many of
227 Cloudflare's as it took (proposals as above).
228- **Drift threshold**.
229
230It applies from the next run; **Run the analysis now** applies it at once.
231Every change is in the audit log (`cost_mapping`).
232
233## Which raw meters are operations
234
235There is one mapping, and the repos service owns it: `operation_mapping`
236in g1t-repos' database, one row per raw meter with `cost_operations` (how
237many operations Cloudflare bills for it) and `billable_operations` (how
238many the customer is charged for). Change it with repos'
239`set_operation_mapping` RPC (services only), or
240`npx wrangler d1 execute g1t-repos --remote` until sudo has a form. A
241change applies to counts from then on, never to what was counted.
242Billing keeps no mapping of its own: it reads repos' `git_operations`
243(already mapped) for what customers are charged, and `artifacts_usage`
244(raw counts with the mapping) for `cost_operations`. Migration 0023 drops
245the `billable_units` table 0022 made for this, which was never written.
246
247**Charged at price** (a product's value) is what each day's usage was paid:
248charged to a card or credit, or drawn from the plan's included usage, a
249trial, a pool or a gift. Usage nothing paid for, as in a free period, is
250valued at price (cost plus the margin), since it was given away at its price
251rather than sold for nothing; so are g1t's own workspaces. Runs on a
252workspace's own model provider have no cost to g1t. Every daily run
253reconciles the whole 31-day window from what is already kept, so a change in
254how a day is valued reaches every day sudo shows.
255
256## Alerts runbook
257
258| Alert | Raised when | First steps |
259| --- | --- | --- |
260| Margin under the floor | A product's value against cost under `margin_floor_percent` (10%) for `alert_days` (3) days running, each with at least `min_daily_cost` | Open the product on Costs & margin. Cost up? Check proposals (approve a rise; it waits out the notice). Value down? A mapping or `revenue_map` may have moved. |
261| All of g1t under the floor | The same for money in against the cost of what was sold: every cost less what was given away (comped workspaces, free periods, the trial, the pools), which is a budget watched in budget.rs. While less than $1 a day comes in, it says the dollars, not a percentage | Look at which products moved; check `platform` (it has no revenue of its own and grows with traffic). Before launch, with little paid usage, expect it. |
262| Leak | Drift of kind leak | Map the meter, or decide it is overhead. |
263| Drift | Count drift | See Drift above. Cloudflare's definitions change in beta: ask them in writing ([ARTIFACTS.md](ARTIFACTS.md), §7). |
264| Costs more than it pays | A workspace's shared cost over 30 days above what its usage was priced at (`value_micros`, whoever paid: card, trial, gift or included usage) × `anomaly_factor`, at least `anomaly_floor`; not comped workspaces | Shown on Reach out as "Costs more than it pays": its usage is priced below what it costs. Abuse (Abuse & fraud page) or a gap in pricing. Not emailed. A trial or gift paying for usage does not raise it. |
265
266Alerts close on their own when the condition clears. Open ones are
267emailed again weekly. The red bar on every sudo page shows margin,
268overall and leak alerts.
269
270## Model costs
271
272Every model call g1t pays for is an agent run's (the `claude` CLI in the
273sandbox, `crates/runner`) or a customer's AI Gateway request (a workspace
274token with `models:write` at `models.g1t.sh/anthropic` or
275`models.g1t.sh/openai/v1`, `gateway.rs`, to Claude on Anthropic or to open
276models on Workers AI through the same AI Gateway); the only other model is
277Workers AI's embeddings for g1t's own search, which are on Cloudflare's bill
278(`embeddings`). How each reaches the ledger:
279
280| Call | Who pays | Run and session | Ledger cost | Settled to the gateway |
281| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
282| Agent run through the model proxy (`services/models`) on g1t's hosted models | g1t | `runs` row; session `ms_…` in `cf-aig-metadata` | On finish, the sandbox's figure (Claude Code's `total_cost_usd`, at its own price table, cache tokens included) | Yes, every 15 minutes |
283| Agent run straight to the gateway (no `MODELS_URL`) | g1t | `runs` row; session `rs_…` in `cf-aig-metadata` (`services/runner` `gatewaySession`) | As above | Yes |
284| Agent run with no gateway (`AI_GATEWAY_ID` empty, self-hosting) | g1t's key | `runs` row, no session | The sandbox's figure | No: nothing to settle against |
285| Agent run on a workspace's own provider | The workspace | `runs` row, `billed_to = 'workspace'`, session `ms_…` (the proxy counts its tokens by it) | No model cost (none to g1t); the agent rate on `agent_tokens_own`, line `<run>/agent-own` | No; never on g1t's gateway. Closed by the cron's `settle_own_runs`, which charges tokens counted late |
286| AI Gateway request on g1t's key | The workspace, from included usage and AI credit (`gateway_admit` refuses at $0, over the limit, or with no plan) | No run; `gateway_requests` row; session `gw_<token>_<YYYYMMDDHH>` in `cf-aig-metadata` (`task: gateway`) | Per request: its tokens at `gateway_models` (the table, migrations 0045 and 0046: list price per million by kind, five-minute and one-hour cache writes apart, and for a model priced by prompt length such as Claude Haiku 5.5 a `threshold` above which the whole request is at the `over_` prices) plus the `gateway_models` meter's markup (0 in beta); a `usage` line with task `gateway`, reference the request id, quantity 1 | No, not yet: the session tag is there for it. **Cost** drift on `models` compares the gateway's total with these lines too. Requests billed other than by tokens (fast mode, `inference_geo`, fallbacks, server tools, containers) are refused by the proxy |
287| AI Gateway request on a workspace's own provider (any model connection whose `gateway_models` takes the model) | The workspace's provider | `gateway_requests` row, `own_key = 1`, `provider` and `connection` | None | No; never on g1t's gateway |
288| A sandbox that died before reporting | g1t | as its route | Charged from the gateway when settled | Yes |
289| Embeddings (indexing) | g1t | none (Workers AI) | Month-end `context` meter | No: Cloudflare's bill, `embeddings` bucket |
290| Embeddings (queries, search and agent context) | g1t | none | None: not charged, by design | No: in Cloudflare's `embeddings` line, shared out |
291
292**Settling.** A run's charge is corrected to what AI Gateway priced its
293session's requests at (`settled_cost` in `keeper.rs`). The gateway's
294figure is trusted in full: it is not held to the $100 cap on a sandbox's
295own report. It is never taken below what the sandbox reported when it
296cannot be the whole cost: a request with tokens and no cost (a model the
297gateway has no price for) or more logs than are read (2,000). Such a run
298keeps `runs.gateway_note`, its correction says why, and it raises the
299**Unpriced** drift. For agent runs g1t keeps no token rates of its own:
300the first figure is Claude Code's, the final one the gateway's. AI Gateway
301requests are the exception: they are charged from `gateway_models` (one
302row per model offered), which has to follow the provider's price list by
303hand until they are settled like runs. It is not part of the price book's
304`price_versions`: a price change is a migration that updates the row and
305its `updated_at` (as 0046 did for Sonnet 5.5's cache reads), and the
306`gateway_models` meter's markup is the only price-book number on it. Open
307models need `WORKERS_AI_TOKEN` (a Cloudflare API token with Workers AI on
308g1t's account) on the model proxy; without it, and without
309`AI_GATEWAY_TOKEN` holding that permission, they are refused with `503`.
310
311**The daily total.** AI Gateway's analytics for the day (above) against
312the ledger's model cost is the check that nothing slips past: a model call
313with no run, or a run never settled, shows as **Cost** drift on `models`.
314The gateway's per-request `cost` is its estimate from its own price list:
315it can be off for prompt-cache tokens, for requests Cloudflare bills
316itself, and for models it has no price for. The drift's detail says when
317any of those were in the window; the provider's invoice is the last word.
318
319### Margin floor
320
321A sold charge is cost × (1 + `MARGIN_PERCENT`), rounded up (`margin_on`;
322`charge_micros` for a sandbox's own report). Terms change it only as
323follows (`Terms::discounted`, `Billing::charged`):
324
325- **Standard**: charged in full.
326- **A 100% discount** (what was "comped"; see [Discounts](#discounts)),
327 `FREE_WHILE_BUILDING`, the plan's included usage, the trial,
328 the open-source pool, and overruns g1t covers: given, and counted by why
329 (above).
330- **Custom, with a discount**: the discount comes off, and what it took
331 below cost plus the margin is written on the entry as
332 `ledger.discount_micros` and counted as given (**discount**), so the sale
333 is valued at its price and charged plus given is never under cost plus the
334 margin. On a settlement correction it moves with the charge (less than
335 nothing when the charge comes down).
336- **Goodwill credits** (overages) are separate, given by staff on purpose:
337 their margin part first, the cost only up to the cap, each audited.
338
339Every usage path goes through this: `finish_run`, settling, sandbox time,
340features and builds (`charge_feature`), and the month-end meters.
341
342## Discounts
343
344An account's terms are standard, or custom: a **discount** from 1 to 100%,
345a limit of its own, or both, with a reason (the terms' note) and an
346optional end date. What used to be "comped" is a **100% discount**
347(`Terms::full_discount`; migration `0039_discounts_not_comped.sql` moved
348every `comped` row to `custom` at 100%, and code reads a leftover `comped`
349row as 100%). In SQL, `sales::FULL_DISCOUNT_SQL`.
350
351- **Charging.** Every charge records what the discount took off it
352 (`ledger.discount_micros`), 100% included: the entry is charged nothing
353 and the discount is its whole price. Migration 0039 backfilled the
354 discount on a 100%-discounted workspace's earlier entries that were
355 charged nothing and paid by nothing, at cost plus 20%.
356- **What a 100% discount still does as "comped" did.** The plan is on
357 without its price (`PlanKind::Internal`), trust is `internal` (no limit
358 on unpaid usage), nothing is invoiced or closed, and g1t's own spend on
359 it is held to the monthly budget (the terms' limit, at cost; see
360 [Spend caps](#spend-caps)).
361- **The statement and Usage.** The customer sees every usage line at its
362 price (`StatementLine.price_micros`: charged, plus what paid for it, plus
363 the discount), the discount per day or project and in the totals
364 (`StatementTotals.price_micros`, `discount_micros`, `discount_percent`),
365 and the CSV has price and discount columns. The Usage page measures at
366 price for a discounted account (`Usage.discount_micros`,
367 `discount_percent`).
368- **Margin.** A 100% discount's usage is given away as before, in the
369 bucket still named `comped` (`given_comped_micros`); sudo calls it
370 **100% discounts**. A partial discount's part below cost plus the margin
371 is `given_discount_micros` (**partial discounts**). Both are kept apart
372 from margin on what was sold.
373- **sudo.** The workspace's **Terms** form takes a discount (None, 25%,
374 50%, 100%, or Custom, a whole percent; the custom field shows by CSS
375 alone), a limit, an end date and the reason. Badges and filters say
376 *100% discount* or *N% off*. Each change is audited (`terms`), such as
377 `standard → 100% discount, monthly budget $150.00: g1t's own`.
378
379## Credits from g1t
380
381Staff give a workspace credit from sudo; the code is
382`services/billing/src/grants.rs`, the tables `credit_grants` and
383`ledger.credit_kind` (migration `0038_staff_credits.sql`).
384
385### Giving credit
386
387sudo → the workspace (or an enterprise, choosing one of its workspaces) →
388**Give credit**:
389
3901. **Amount**: $10, $20, $25, $50, $100, or **Custom** (up to $10,000).
391 Up to $100 it is one step; over $100, type the workspace's slug as well.
3922. **Kind**: promotional (a welcome, a referral, an event), goodwill (an
393 apology), or refund (money back for something that went wrong: say what
394 it refunds and, optionally, the day).
3953. **Expires**: never, 30, 90 or 365 days, or the end of a chosen day
396 (UTC). A refund never expires.
3974. **Note**: required. It is on the statement and in the owners' email.
398
399The form needs no JavaScript: the fields for one choice (the custom amount,
400a refund's details, the expiry date) show by CSS alone, and all show where
401`:has()` is not supported. `admin_credit` checks everything again.
402
403A grant is a `crd_…` ledger line (kind `top_up`, so never a payment) with
404`credit_kind`, and a `credit_grants` row. The balance rises at once. The
405owners are emailed through identity's `notify_owners` (the same path as
406limit notices). It is audited as `credit`. The Overages queue's one-click
407goodwill credit is a grant too, of kind goodwill.
408
409The inbox is not told: its items are threads on a repository, built from
410events, and a credit is a workspace's. That needs a workspace-level inbox
411thread first.
412
413### How it is spent
414
415Credit is spent before anything prepaid, the soonest-expiring grant first
416(never-expiring last, then the oldest). Given while the workspace owes, it
417pays what is owed first, the most recent usage first. What each grant paid
418for is never stored: `grants::replay` works it out from the ledger in order,
419so the charge paths do not know about credit and the answer is always what
420the ledger says. A charge that comes down (a settled run) gives back to
421the grant that paid last, while it can still be spent.
422
423### Expiry and revoking
424
425- **Expiry.** The daily run (`expire_credits`, before the reconciliation)
426 closes grants past `expires_at` and enters what was left as a negative
427 `crd…_expired` line; audited as `credit_expired`. A grant past its expiry
428 pays for nothing even before the run.
429- **Revoke.** sudo → the workspace's **Credits** (or **Credits & refunds**)
430 → **Revoke unused**, with why (`admin_revoke_credit`): what is left, as a
431 `crd…_revoked` line, audited as `credit_revoked`. What was spent stays
432 spent.
433
434Neither takes the balance below zero: at most the balance, if a refunded
435payment left less there than the credit.
436
437### How margin treats them
438
439| Kind | When spent | On the day it was given |
440| --- | --- | --- |
441| Promotional | The usage is valued at its price, its charge comes out of cash and is given (`given_credit_promotional_micros`) | Nothing |
442| Goodwill | The same, as `given_credit_goodwill_micros` | Nothing |
443| Refund | Paid for: cash, as any usage | Its amount (less what was revoked) comes off cash on the day it refunds, shared over that day's paid usage |
444
445A refund gives back money already collected, so counting it as given would
446make it look like a budget g1t chose to spend. Taking it off cash for the
447day it refunds says that day's sale was worth less, and counting what it
448later pays for as cash keeps money in equal to what was collected. The
449refund's day is clamped to the last 30 days, the days the reconciliation
450recomputes; an older one lands on the oldest. Refunds never expire, so
451cash taken back is never stranded.
452
453What credit paid of a month-end meter (storage, git, scans) is its own
454row on the day it was charged, since those meters are reconciled from
455snapshots. Sudo's Costs & margin lists promotional and goodwill credit
456under **Given away**, and below the statement the range's credits given,
457spent, and refunded. **Credits & refunds** (`/credits`, `admin_credits`)
458lists every grant (by kind, month, staff and workspace) and the last 12
459months by kind: given, spent, expired, revoked.
460
461### Purchased and scoped credit (prepaid AI)
462
463`credit_grants` also has `scope` (`all`, or `models`: model usage only,
464`grants::is_model_usage`, which includes the agent rate) and `source`
465(`staff`, `purchase`, `promo_code`, `upgrade`), and `CreditKind::Purchased`.
466Spending takes credit scoped to models first, then the soonest-expiring. A
467grant scoped to models given while the workspace owes pays only what models
468owed, never other usage (`replay`). Purchased credit is money paid in: its
469ledger line is a payment (Stripe's id, never `crd…`, `credit_kind`
470`purchased`, statement kind *AI credit*), and the usage it pays for stays
471money in, never given. Staff cannot give it (`admin_credit` refuses the
472kind). Code: `services/billing/src/ai.rs`; migration `0040_ai_credit.sql`.
473
474- **Buying.** `buy_ai_credit` opens Stripe Checkout (payment mode, $10 to
475 $1,000, a second line *Card processing fee* when the `card_fee` cost
476 setting is on, `setup_future_usage=off_session`), recorded in `checkouts`
477 with `feature = 'ai_credit'`, `amount_cents` the credit and `fee_cents`
478 the fee. The credit is entered by whichever comes first, the person coming
479 back (`confirm_ai_credit`, `?ai_credit=cs_…`) or
480 `checkout.session.completed`: both claim the row `open → paid`, the
481 grant's id is the session's id (`INSERT OR IGNORE`) and the ledger's
482 reference is unique, so a payment is credited exactly once. Expires 365
483 days after purchase (the daily `expire_credits`).
484- **Owed.** AI credit props up the balance but is money only for models, so
485 what is owed is `max(0, AI credit left − balance)` (`owed_with`; at a
486 month's close, `models_left_before` the month's start).
487- **Auto-reload.** `ai_reload` (settings; off by default) and `ai_reloads`
488 (one row per attempt). Each cron run (and a run that would be refused)
489 calls `reload_now`: below the threshold, it charges the customer's default
490 payment method off-session for the target less the balance (whole
491 dollars, at least $10, within the month's maximum), with the idempotency
492 key `reload/<workspace>/<YYYY-MM>/<n>` (a retry after a crash is the same
493 PaymentIntent), and grants purchased credit with the PaymentIntent's id. A
494 decline or a payment needing the person turns auto-reload off
495 (`failed_at`, `error`), emails the owners and audits `ai_reload_failed`.
496- **At $0.** `start_run` on g1t's models refuses with `payment_required`
497 when the workspace is on the paid plan (not a 100% discount, not an
498 enterprise), its included usage is used, and AI credit is $0 or less.
499- **Upgrade credit.** The first time a plan subscription is recorded active
500 (`features::record`), $5 of promotional credit scoped to models, id
501 `crd_upgrade_<workspace>`, expiring in a year: given, never revenue. Never
502 for a workspace with a 100% discount.
503
504### The agent rate and models' markup
505
506Price-book meters (migration 0040, each with versions and a public change):
507`agent_models` (per provider dollar; markup 20% until 2026-10-08, then 0,
508a fall applied at once), `agent_tokens` ($0 until 2026-10-22, then $0.25 a
509million tokens: a rise, after the 14 days' notice, emailed to owners on the
510plan by `tell_owners_of_rises`), `gateway_models` (markup 0 during beta),
511`card_fee_percent` (29,000 micros per dollar) and `card_fee_fixed`
512(300,000). Changing any is a price-book change, never a deploy. `finish_run`
513and `settle` charge models at `agent_models`' markup; `charge_agent_rate`
514charges the weighted tokens of the run's session since it was last charged
515(`runs.agent_tokens`, the weighted tokens charged so far, claimed with a
516compare-and-set), on a line `<run>/agent` (later `<run>/agent/<tokens>`),
517with `quantity` the weighted tokens. What it counts is the more of what
518`token_usage` holds for the session and what the sandbox reported with its
519cost (`finish_run`'s `tokens`, from Claude Code's closing `usage`), each
520weighted by kind. **Card fee switch:** sudo → Costs → Guardrails → *Card fee
521on card payments* (`cost_settings.card_fee`, `on`/`off`, on by default). It
522covers every card payment now, not only AI credit: see
523[Tax and the card fee](#tax-and-the-card-fee).
524
525**On a workspace's own model key** (migration `0041_agent_rate_own_key.sql`):
526the run keeps its model session (`runs.session_id`, `ms_…`) so the proxy's
527counts reach it, and the agent rate is charged at `agent_tokens_own` ($0 until
5282026-10-22, then $0.25 a million, a rise from nothing with its notice), on
529`<run>/agent-own` (later `<run>/agent-own/<tokens>`), `billed_to = 'g1t'`
530(g1t's own charge: it counts toward limits and spend), named *Agent rate,
531your own model key* on Usage and the statement. The model is never charged.
532`settle_runs` skips these runs (nothing on g1t's gateway); the cron's
533`settle_own_runs` closes them 5 minutes after they finish (3 hours after
534they start, for a sandbox that never reported) and charges tokens counted
535late. Runs from before have no session and are never charged the rate.
536
537### The agent rate's token weights
538
539How much each kind of token counts toward the agent rate, on g1t's models
540and own keys alike, is four price-book meters (migration
541`0042_agent_rate_weights.sql`): `agent_token_weight_input`, `_output`,
542`_cache_read` and `_cache_write`, each a weight in millionths in
543`cost_micros` (1,000,000 counts a token once). They started at 1, which is
544what the rate always counted; since 2026-10-08 cache reads count a tenth
545(100,000; migration `0044_cache_reads_count_a_tenth.sql`), as model providers
546price them. Input, output and cache writes count once. A cached agent run reads most of its context from
547cache (about 90% of its tokens on a typical Sonnet implement run), so the
548cache-read weight is the lever: at 1 the rate adds about 44% to such a run's
549model cost; at 0.1, far less.
550
551To change a weight (cache reads went to a tenth this way):
552
5531. Add the version, effective at once (a lower weight is a fall):
554
555 ```sql
556 INSERT INTO price_versions (id, meter, version, cost_micros, markup_percent, effective_at, reason, created_by, created_at)
557 VALUES ('pv_agent_token_weight_cache_read_2', 'agent_token_weight_cache_read', 2, 100000, 0,
558 '2026-10-08T00:00:00Z', 'Cache reads count a tenth toward the agent rate', 'staff', '2026-10-08T00:00:00Z');
559 ```
560
561 in a migration, or with `npx wrangler d1 execute g1t-billing --remote`
562 until sudo has a form.
5632. The daily run applies it once `effective_at` has come and writes the
564 public `price_changes` record (**Run the analysis now** applies it at
565 once). Raising a weight later is a rise: give it an `effective_at` 14
566 days out, and owners on the plan are emailed.
5673. Check `/pricing`: the agent rate's row lists the weights, and Usage's
568 agent-rate lines name them.
569
570`weighted` (`ai.rs`) rounds down to a whole token; a weight is never below 0.
571
572### Budgets
573
574The owners' spend limit is the budget. `limits.alert_levels` (comma
575separated, default every level), `limits.pause_at_limit` (default 1; off,
576100% is a warning, never a stop; the trust ceiling still stops work) and
577`limits.budget_webhook` (an https address, not g1t's; posted once per alert
578level a month by `warn_limits`). `set_budget` sets them, with `keepLimit`
579to leave the limit itself alone. A free workspace (trust `new`) has no
580spend limit to set: `set_spend_limit` and `set_budget` say so.
581
582### Earlier credits
583
584Migration 0038 makes every earlier `Credit from g1t:` line a goodwill
585grant with no expiry: the old form asked for "a refund or goodwill" with
586no way to tell them apart, and goodwill never reads as money in.
587
588## Token usage
589
590The model proxy (`services/models`) reads Anthropic's `usage` from every
591`/v1/messages` answer, streamed or whole, on g1t's models and on a
592workspace's own provider alike (OpenAI-shaped providers are translated
593first). Count-tokens requests are not answers and are skipped. After the
594answer, it calls `record_tokens`, which adds input, output, cache reads and
595cache writes to one row per day, workspace, person, session and model in
596`token_usage` (migration `0030_token_usage.sql`). The person is who the run
597was for, from the model session's `requested_by`; never g1t's agent. A
598report that fails is dropped and never affects the answer.
599
600`token_usage` reads a window (42 days by default, 366 at most) for the
601workspace or one person: totals, every day's tokens and the active days,
602with `costMicros` the window's run charges from the ledger, measured as
603`usage` measures them. Usage's report also lists tokens by model
604(`UsageReport.models`). The agent rate is charged on these counts (above);
605a run's model is still priced from AI Gateway's logs, never from them.
606
607## Tables (migration `0022_costs_and_margin.sql`)
608
609`cost_lines`, `cost_map`, `revenue_map`, `own_counts`,
610`pending_days`, `margin_days`, `workspace_costs`, `cost_drift`,
611`margin_alerts`, `price_versions` (seeded with every current price as
612version 1), `price_proposals`, `price_notices`, `cost_settings` (the
613guardrails, seeded), the `actions_cache` price, and `ledger.price_version`.
614Every create is `IF NOT EXISTS` and every seed `INSERT OR IGNORE`; the one
615`ALTER` is applied once by D1's migration tracking. Migration
616`0023_one_operation_mapping.sql` drops `billable_units` (see above).
617Migration `0036_model_costs_in_full.sql` adds `ledger.discount_micros`,
618`margin_days.given_discount_micros`, `runs.gateway_note` and the
619`ai_gateway_requests` → `models` mapping. Migration
620`0038_staff_credits.sql` adds `credit_grants`, `ledger.credit_kind` and
621`margin_days.given_credit_{promotional,goodwill}_micros`, and backfills
622earlier credits (see [Credits from g1t](#credits-from-g1t)).
623
624## Spend caps
625
626Two caps keep what g1t pays for itself bounded while billing takes no
627real money. Both are measured at **cost** (what Cloudflare and the model
628providers charge g1t), never at price. Code: `services/billing/src/budget.rs`.
629Page: sudo **Costs & margin** → **g1t's own spend** (`/costs#spend`).
630
631### What counts as g1t's own spend
632
633Every charge that settles (an agent run's model cost from `finish_run` or
634AI Gateway's settlement, sandbox time from `record_sandbox`, a build from
635`charge_feature`) is split by what paid for it and g1t's part is added to
636`g1t_spend` (day, bucket, billing account):
637
638| Bucket | What |
639| --- | --- |
640| `comped` | All of a comped account's work (flagon-io) |
641| `trial` | The trial credit's share |
642| `oss` | The open-source pool's share |
643| `given` | A free workspace's overrun past its last bit of trial |
644| `unpaid` | Charged, but with no real money behind it: Stripe's test key, or `FREE_WHILE_BUILDING` |
645
646The plan's included usage and on-demand charges count as revenue only
647with live payments; in test mode they are `unpaid`. A workspace's own
648model provider costs g1t nothing and is not counted. Month-end meters
649(git, storage, scans, embeddings, the cache) are not counted here; the
650daily reconciliation covers them. Migration `0024_spend_caps.sql`
651backfills the current month from the ledger.
652
653### Caps
654
655| Cap | Variable (g1t-billing) | Default | At the cap |
656| --- | --- | --- | --- |
657| A comped account's monthly budget | `COMPED_MONTHLY_CEILING_MICROS`, or the account's own **Limit** in its terms | $150 a month | New work on the account (agents, checks, workflows, builds) is refused with "<name>'s monthly budget for g1t's own agents is used up … Staff can raise it in sudo". Runs already going finish; the per-run cap still applies to them. It lifts when staff raise the budget or the month turns (UTC). |
658| The daily breaker | `PLATFORM_DAILY_SPEND_CAP_MICROS` | $75 a day (UTC) | New agent runs on g1t's hosted models that g1t would pay for are refused until 00:00 UTC. Not paused: agents on the workspace's own model provider, checks and builds, and workspaces paying with live payments on the plan (not given by staff) or an enterprise contract. In test mode that exemption covers no one. |
659
660`0` turns either off. Cloudflare's subscriptions are read from Cloudflare
661each day (`cf_subscriptions`) and shown on the page only;
662`CLOUDFLARE_FIXED_MONTHLY_MICROS` ($30) stands in until a read works.
663
664The checks are cheap: `reserve` reads today's total (one indexed sum) and,
665for a comped account, its month's comped rows. Refusals come back as
666`paused`, which the compute gate honours for every plan, internal and
667enterprise included (`packages/contracts/src/compute.ts`). The runner tells
668billing whether an agent run is on hosted models (`hostedModel` on
669`reserve`); a caller that does not say is treated as hosted.
670
671### Alerts
672
673All to `COSTS_ALERT_EMAIL` (`hey@flagon.io`), through the `EMAIL` binding:
674
675- **Comped budget**: at 50, 75, 90 and 100%, once each per account and month
676 (`budget_alerts`), checked every 15 minutes. A jump past several levels
677 sends only the highest.
678- **Breaker**: at once, from the charge that trips it; if that email fails,
679 the 15-minute cron sends it (`spend_breaker.told_at`).
680
681While the breaker is open or a comped budget is used up, every sudo page
682shows a red **Spend cap** bar.
683
684### Raising and lifting
685
686- **Raise a comped budget**: sudo → the workspace → Billing → **Terms**, set
687 **Limit $** to the new monthly budget (blank goes back to the default),
688 with a note. It applies to the next start; nothing to deploy. The change
689 is in the account's audit log.
690- **Lift the breaker for today**: sudo → Costs & margin → **g1t's own
691 spend** → **Lift for today**, with why (`admin_lift_breaker`; audit action
692 `breaker_lifted`). It resets by itself at 00:00 UTC.
693- **Change a default**: edit the variable in `services/billing/wrangler.jsonc`
694 and deploy g1t-billing.
695
696## Resetting a test workspace
697
698sudo → the workspace → **Reset billing (testing)** (`admin_reset_billing`)
699returns a workspace used for testing to how a new customer starts. It
700deletes the workspace's rows from every billing table: ledger and balance,
701plan and plan payments, limits and limit requests, trial grant, invoices,
702holds, card checks, alerts sent, price notices, month-end snapshots and
703closes, storage meters, token usage, spikes, sales records and
704notes, `workspace_costs`, its workspace margin alert and its own billing
705account. It keeps `own_counts` (what Cloudflare's bill is compared with)
706and the audit log, which records the reset with the note and the number of
707rows. The workspace, its members and its repositories are identity's and
708repos' and stay.
709
710Billing refuses it while `STRIPE_SECRET_KEY` is a live key, for comped
711workspaces, and for a workspace an enterprise pays for. It then runs the
712costs analysis again (as **Run the analysis now** does), so the margin
713figures drop the workspace's past usage at once; if that run does not
714finish, the page says so and the button does it.
715
716## Stripe
717
718Billing keeps what it needs from Stripe so reads never wait on it, and
719hears of changes three ways (`webhooks.rs`, `stripe_sync.rs`).
720
721**API version.** Every request sends `Stripe-Version: 2025-02-24.acacia`
722(`stripe::STRIPE_VERSION`), the version billing's field reads are written
723for; without it Stripe answers at the account's default. Webhook events
724come at the destination's own version: billing reads an invoice's
725subscription from `subscription` or `parent.subscription_details.subscription`.
726Raising the version is a code change: read Stripe's upgrade notes for every
727field billing reads.
728
729**Failures.** No Stripe failure reaches a page as a 500: each payment page
730(`page_opened`), the portal, confirmations and plan changes turn it into
731`stripe::friendly` (Stripe's own message, never the request or a key), and
732log the full error with the workspace. Every payment page is recorded
733through one insert (`CHECKOUT_INSERT`), checked against the migrations by
734`every_checkout_insert_fills_the_table`, and has an idempotency key
735(`page/<purpose>/<workspace>/…/<10-minute bucket>`).
736
737**The webhook.** A destination made in Stripe's dashboard (Developers →
738Webhooks → Add destination) with the endpoint URL
739`https://api.g1t.sh/stripe/webhook`, in the mode of billing's key (at
740launch, make one in live mode and put its secret). Its signing secret
741(`whsec_…`: the destination, Signing secret, Reveal) is the billing
742Worker's secret:
743
744```sh
745cd services/billing && npx wrangler secret put STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET
746```
747
748Without it every event is refused with 400. After rolling the secret in
749Stripe, put the new one; during the roll Stripe signs with both, so there
750is no gap. The event list need not be exact: billing adds any event it
751handles that the destination does not send (daily, or **Fix destination**
752in sudo → Stripe), and enables it again if Stripe disabled it. It never
753changes the secret. sudo → Stripe shows whether the secret is set, the
754destination and its status, missing events, and the latest events.
755Events are claimed once each in `stripe_events`; a handler that fails
756forgets its claim, and Stripe retries.
757
758**What is kept, and how it stays current**
759
760| Kept | Where | Refreshed by |
761| --- | --- | --- |
762| Saved card (brand, last 4, expiry) | `accounts.card_*`, `card_synced_at` | `customer.updated`, `payment_method.*`, `setup_intent.succeeded`; forgotten when g1t sets a default card, so the next read asks once; the daily pass for cards older than 7 days |
763| Plans | `subscriptions` | `customer.subscription.*`, `invoice.*`; a read asks Stripe at most hourly once a period is over; the daily pass for rows older than a day |
764| Payments, refunds, disputes | ledger, `checkouts`, invoices | their events |
765
766**Every cron run (every 15 minutes)** replays missed events: Stripe's event
767list from an hour before `stripe_sync.through`, oldest first, through the
768same once-only claim. `through` moves to 5 minutes before now when all were
769handled, back to the first failure otherwise, and stays when more than
7701,000 events were listed. Claims stuck at `handling` for 10 minutes are
771dropped so the replay retries them. The first run reads 3 days back.
772
773**Daily** (`keeper::DAILY`): the destination at billing's address is
774enabled again if Stripe disabled it and given any missing event, audited as
775`stripe`/`webhook`; then up to 25 stale cards and 25 stale plans are read
776again.
777
778**What still calls Stripe on a request**: starting a payment page, a plan
779or a card check; opening the billing portal; settling a page the person
780came back from; renaming a workspace (the customer's name). Nothing a page
781view reads.
782
783## Tax and the card fee
784
785Owner decision 2026-10-08. Code: `services/billing/src/tax.rs` (what is
786kept, the address hold), `stripe.rs` (every request's tax fields),
787`invoices.rs`, `webhooks.rs`, `ai.rs`; migration
788`0043_tax_and_card_fees.sql`.
789
790### What Stripe is asked
791
792Every price excludes tax (`tax_behavior=exclusive`) and carries tax code
793`txcd_10103001` (software as a service, business use; the card fee too,
794since a fee for paying for a sale follows the sale). Fields are valid for
795`2025-02-24.acacia`.
796
797| Request | Tax | Card fee |
798| --- | --- | --- |
799| Checkout, plan or Security (`subscription_fields`) | `automatic_tax[enabled]`, `billing_address_collection=required`, `tax_id_collection[enabled]`, with a customer `customer_update[address]=auto` and `[name]=auto`; the subscription keeps automatic tax for every renewal | A second recurring line, *Card processing fee* |
800| Subscription on a saved card (`saved_subscription_fields`) | `automatic_tax[enabled]`; a customer Stripe Tax cannot place fails, and the person is sent to Checkout, which asks for the address | `items[1]`, the `card_fee` product |
801| Checkout, prepay (`prepay_fields`) | As above | By card only; none by bank transfer |
802| Checkout, AI credit (`credit_fields`) | As above | Its own line |
803| Checkout, card check (`card_check_fields`) | Setup mode: nothing charged, nothing taxed. `billing_address_collection=required`, and the card's address is copied onto a customer with none (`fill_address`) | — |
804| Auto-reload (`charge_saved`) | `POST /tax/calculations` first (credit and fee as lines), the PaymentIntent for the total, then `POST /tax/transactions/create_from_calculation` with the PaymentIntent as reference; a refund reverses its share (`create_reversal`, `mode=partial`) | In the calculation and the amount |
805| Workspace invoice, month close and threshold (`invoice_workspace`) | `automatic_tax[enabled]` on the draft; each item `tax_behavior`, `tax_code` | An item *Card processing fee*, when the default payment method is a card |
806| Enterprise invoice (`invoice_enterprise`) | The same | Never |
807| Products (`Stripe::product`) | Made with `tax_code`; one found without it is given it | The `card_fee` product, `metadata[g1t]=card_fee` |
808
809### What is kept
810
811A payment credits the balance with what it paid for, never its tax or fee:
812prepay credits the page's `amount_subtotal` less the fee line
813(`credit_prepayment`), a workspace invoice `amount_paid − tax − fee`
814(`credit_invoice`), AI credit its credit amount, and `plan_payments` the
815plan's invoice less its tax and *Card processing fee* lines
816(`stripe::invoice_split`). Each payment's tax and fee are rows in
817`tax_and_fees` (`<reference>/tax`, `<reference>/card_fee`; the enterprise's
818account id in `workspace` for its invoices), with the PaymentIntent, so a
819refund (`charge.refunded`) gives back the balance, tax and fee in
820proportion (`tax::refund_split`, negative rows under `refund/<charge>/…`).
821`workspace_invoices.fee_micros` and `tax_micros` sit beside each usage
822invoice.
823
824- **Statement.** *Tax* and *Card processing fees* are their own lines per
825 day (`StatementLine.passed_micros`), never in `charged_micros`; totals
826 `tax_micros`, `card_fee_micros`. The CSV has a row a day for each.
827- **Margin.** Cash never holds them, so margin is untouched. sudo → Costs
828 shows **Tax collected** and **Card fees passed on** for the range
829 (`OverallMargin.tax_collected_micros`, `card_fees_micros`). Tax is owed to
830 the authorities: file it from Stripe Tax's reports, never from g1t's.
831
832### No address
833
834Stripe Tax needs a country (in the US a ZIP code, in Canada a postal code
835or province: `stripe::address_places_customer`). Before a workspace
836invoice is drafted, g1t checks the customer; without an address, or when
837Stripe leaves the draft at `requires_location_inputs` or refuses with
838`customer_tax_location_invalid`, nothing is charged:
839`accounts.tax_address_needed_at` is set, the owners are emailed once
840(`notify_owners`), and Billing shows **Add a billing address**. Saving
841Invoice details with an address Stripe Tax can use clears it, as does a
842charge that goes through. Work is not stopped for it; the limits still
843apply. Auto-reload without an address fails like a declined card (turned
844off, owners told). An enterprise's invoice is not sent without an address:
845sudo → the enterprise → Invoices → **Billing address** (`admin_enterprise_address`,
846with its tax ID; audited `billing_address`).
847
848### The card fee
849
850`card_fee_cents` grosses Stripe's fee up so the amount paid for is left
851after it: `(amount + 30¢) / (1 − 2.9%)`, rounded up; $0.91 on $20, $1.06
852on $25. It is worked out on the amount before tax, so Stripe's fee on the
853tax itself (a few cents) is g1t's. It is shown before paying: the plan card
854and pricing page (`Plan.card_fee_cents`), AI credit (*Card processing fee
855$1.06, plus tax where it applies*), Prepay. Never on a bank transfer or an
856enterprise's (`send_invoice`) invoice. Meters stay at cost + 20% and models
857at the provider's price plus the agent rate (price versions in migration
8580040); the fee is passed through, not margin.
859
860### Tax-exempt customers and tax IDs
861
862g1t never sets `tax_exempt`. For a customer who sends an exemption
863certificate, set it in Stripe's dashboard (Customers → the customer → Tax
864status: Exempt, or Reverse charge); Billing then says so. Tax IDs come
865from Checkout (`tax_id_collection`) or Invoice details (`set_billing_details`,
866validated against Stripe's types in `details::TAX_ID_TYPES`); Stripe checks
867EU VAT numbers and Stripe Tax applies a reverse charge where it should.
868Billing shows Stripe's `verification.status`.
869
870### In Stripe's dashboard (not done by g1t)
871
8721. **Settings → Tax → Get started**: turn on Stripe Tax in live and test
873 mode.
8742. **Origin address**: Flagon, Inc.'s head office address.
8753. **Default tax code**: Software as a service, business use
876 (`txcd_10103001`); **default tax behavior**: exclusive.
8774. **Registrations**: add each jurisdiction where Flagon is registered to
878 collect (its home state at least; then states as thresholds are
879 crossed, which Stripe Tax's monitoring flags; the EU's OSS and the UK
880 if selling there). Stripe collects only where a registration exists.
8815. **Customer portal**: tax ID and address updates are already allowed
882 (`portal_configuration`).
8836. Refund an invoice through a **credit note**, so its tax is reversed in
884 Stripe Tax.
885
886## Free workspaces
887
888Owner decision 2026-10-08: one free workspace per person, and a free
889workspace adds no one. Billing answers one question, `free_workspaces`
890(`credits.rs`): which of the given workspaces are on no paid plan
891(`plan_kind_for` is `Free`). The plan, an enterprise's terms and a 100%
892discount (flagon-io) count as paid; with payments off nothing is free.
893Identity asks it (`services/identity/src/paid.rs`) and refuses with
894`payment_required`:
895
896| Where | Refused when |
897| --- | --- |
898| `create_workspace` | The person owns any free workspace. Several from before are kept (grandfathered); none can be added until each is paid for or deleted. |
899| `add_member`, `invite_member` | The workspace is free. |
900| `add_collaborator` | Someone outside a free workspace (a username who is not a member, or an address). Members' roles are fine. |
901| `accept_invite`, `respond_repo_invitation` | The invite's workspace (or repository's) is free now: it waits. A sign-up with such an invite makes the account without joining. |
902
903`@g1t` is never counted as someone added. If billing cannot be asked, the
904change is refused for now ("try again"), never let through. The site says
905so first (New workspace, People, a repository's Access, from the same RPC);
906the API and MCP pass identity's refusal on as `402`.
907
908## The Security and quality activation
909
910A second monthly subscription a workspace can hold beside the plan
911(`Feature::Security`, `feature = 'security'` in `subscriptions`). It turns
912on the security suite's paid features for the workspace's private
913repositories: custom secret patterns, validity checks, delegated bypass,
914code scanning, dependency review and the security overview. Public
915repositories have them free; secret scanning, push protection,
916vulnerability alerts and security updates are free everywhere.
917
918- **Price.** The price book's `security_activation` meter (unit
919 `workspace-month`, `source` `list`, markup 0): 10,000,000 micros, $10,
920 from migration `0037_security_activation.sql` with its first
921 `price_versions` row and a public `price_changes` record. `plan()` and the
922 `prices` RPC read it (`features::security_plan_at`); if the price book
923 cannot be read, $10. Nothing in the web app hard-codes it. A change is a
924 new price version, like any other: noticed on the pricing page and
925 applied from its `effective_at` to new subscriptions. Subscriptions
926 already running keep the amount Stripe has until they are changed in
927 Stripe.
928- **Stripe.** Its own subscription and its own product, tagged
929 `metadata[g1t]=security` (the plan's is `plan`). Started from the Billing
930 page with `subscribe` (`feature: security`) on the checked card, or
931 through Checkout; ended with `cancel_subscription` (`feature: security`)
932 at the period's end. Its invoices count in `plan_payments` like the
933 plan's, as paid revenue.
934- **Who has it.** `has_feature(workspace, security)`: on with an active
935 subscription, with comped terms or as an enterprise's workspace, or when
936 Stripe is not configured. The plan's allowance (`allowances.plan`) does
937 not include it. Refusals are `PaymentRequired` with the price from the
938 price book and the Billing page's address.
939- **Where it is checked.** The security service, on each paid call for a
940 private repository (`suite::entitled`) and before using custom patterns
941 in a push (`patterns_for`). When billing cannot be reached it is taken
942 as off: a paid feature waits rather than running unpaid.
943- **Fixes.** "Fix with g1t" runs g1t's agent, charged as agent usage, never
944 to the activation.
945- **Sales figures.** MRR in sudo counts `feature = 'plan'` only; the
946 activation's subscriptions are not in it yet.