Pay-as-You-Go Agent Tools and Platform Billing | Locus Pro

Locus Pro

One agent tool catalog for you or your platform.

Start a personal account in minutes with MCP and pay-as-you-go agent tools, or work with Locus on a separately provisioned enterprise workspace for teams, metering, controls, and contracted pricing. Both use one catalog: 57 reviewed tool providers and 3,906 catalog listings once marketplace and live-quoted tiers are counted.

Enterprise workspaces

Platform billing for products that meter and resell AI capabilities.

The server SDK, tenant keys, per-user balances, markup, embedded widget, and payout controls are enterprise features. Personal accounts use Tools, Credits, and browser-OAuth Connections in the Locus Pro dashboard.

You resell AI capability

Your product wraps models, search, scraping, or enrichment. You need to charge for it per use without building a ledger, a metering pipeline, and a top-up flow first.

You bill per end user

Usage has to be attributed to the customer who caused it, not pooled across the workspace, so each user carries their own balance and their own limits.

You need spend under control

Agents call at machine frequency. Balances are checked before the call, not reconciled after it, so a runaway loop returns 402 rather than an invoice.

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Locus Pro · Enterprise use cases

Four things platforms build with it.

Pick a use case to see the mechanics: usage-billed research tools, metered inference, priced MCP tools, or the embedded balance widget.

The money flow
Your useruser_842pays your price
117 credits
Your productacme-platformkeeps the margin
metered call
Locustavily/searchburn + ledger row
base $0.09
ProviderTavilywholesale
tavily/search · user_842−117burn
apollo/people/match · user_2c7−480502 burn
apollo/people/match · user_2c7+480refund

Every burn is a ledger row with the full price breakdown, filterable by user, tool, and your own attribution metadata.

Locus Pro Enterprise · How it works

How enterprise platform billing works.

Credits allocate, burn and settle on their own, so one prepaid balance takes the place of the provider accounts and the invoicing you would otherwise run yourself.

01

Pick your catalog and prices

Enable agent tools from the curated catalog with each current base price or live pricing basis visible. Set a default markup and per-tool overrides; exact effective prices preview when the base is known.

02

Your users hold credits

Fund your wholesale pool and allocate credits in your own denomination. Bill on your own Stripe at retail, or let users top up by card through the embedded widget.

03

Every call meters itself

Agents and apps burn credits at your price; the cost and remaining balance ride back in the response headers. An underfunded call returns 402 before anything happens.

04

Every burn is traceable

Calls rejected before provider execution or streaming acceptance release their held credits automatically. Each completed burn is a ledger row you can filter by user, tool, or the attribution metadata you set.

Pricing

The whole rate card.

Start personally with no required subscription, or choose an operator-provisioned enterprise workspace with contracted economics and controls.

Locus Pro · PersonalSelf-serve
$0to start

One active OAuth-connected client is included. Add prepaid credits and pay the displayed tool price as you use it—no monthly tool commitment and no volume tiers.

Included

1 active OAuth-connected client

$0 / month

Plus

3 active OAuth-connected clients

$20 / month

Unlimited

Unlimited active OAuth-connected clients

$200 / month

Create personal account Agent tool usage is billed separately from connection plans.
Locus Pro · EnterpriseStarts with an 8-week paid pilot
$5,000/ month minimum

A 12-month production agreement. The monthly platform fee is the greater of the $5,000 minimum or the marginal fee on provider cost; any unused minimum does not carry forward. No per-user or per-key fees.

Implementation pilot

An 8-week paid pilot validates the integration, economics, controls, and launch plan before production credentials are issued. Provider usage and payment-processing costs are separate.

$15,000

one-time

Platform fee

The monthly platform fee is the greater of the $5,000 minimum or the marginal fee on provider cost: 5% of the first $100k, 4% of the next $400k, and 3% above $500k.

5% → 3%

marginal

Hosted endpoint prices

Existing hosted per-call WAPI prices do not change. Their embedded Locus component is disclosed and credited dollar-for-dollar, so it is never charged twice.

$0

change to per-call prices

Your markup

Set a default markup and per-endpoint overrides. Collect the margin in your own billing flow, or let eligible Locus-hosted checkout margin accrue for payout.

100%

of the margin is yours

Pay With Locus · For developers

Pay per use. Nothing else.

There is no subscription and no minimum. Fund a wallet with USDC and authorize each tool's quoted price or usage basis; see how pricing works.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Read the details before you commit

The charge math, the credential model, and the full catalog with current prices or live pricing status are all documented.