# Billing

One flat subscription per tier, and every month the tier retires a
FIXED basket of third-party certificates. Use a tenth of your allowance
and the basket still retires in full. The basket is set by the plan, not
by your estimate, and it is not a statement about your footprint. No
per-credit charges, no top-up lines, nothing indexed to estimate size.
How the basket sizes were chosen is on the
[methodology page](/methodology#how-basket-sizes-were-chosen).

> Free accounts are open today. Paid tiers, which add certificate retirements, are not yet on sale. Tiers may change before launch.

## Tiers

| Tier | Price | Billable tokens / month | Retirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 10M | Estimates only |
| Personal Light | $36/year ($3/mo equivalent) | 5M | 150 gal water · 75 kg CO2e carbon credits · 150 kWh RECs, pooled shares |
| Personal | $7/mo | 25M | 475 gal water · 230 kg CO2e carbon credits · 425 kWh RECs, pooled shares |
| Personal Plus | $15/mo | 60M | 1,150 gal water · 550 kg CO2e carbon credits · 1,050 kWh RECs, pooled shares |
| Personal Max | $29/mo | 100M | 2,000 gal water · 1,000 kg CO2e carbon credits · 2,000 kWh RECs, pooled shares |
| Team | $29/mo or $290/year | 100M | 2,000 gal water · 1,000 kg CO2e carbon credits · 2,000 kWh RECs, whole units |
| Business | $250/mo or $2,500/year | 1B | 19,000 gal water · 9,000 kg CO2e carbon credits · 17,000 kWh RECs, whole units |

Prices exclude applicable sales tax. Each category stands on its own and
is never totalled.
| Enterprise | Custom | Above 1B | Negotiated volume, named projects |

Personal tiers come in echelons because individual usage spans three
orders of magnitude: casual chat runs under 1M billable tokens a month,
while a developer running coding agents most of the day can pass 100M.
All personal echelons pool, in all three categories: each month R3CKON
buys enough whole certificates to meet every member's basket in full,
rounding up, and each account is allocated its basket as a share of the
named retirement. What is left of a whole unit is company-owned and is
drawn first the next month.

## Billable tokens

Tier caps count billable tokens, not raw tokens:

```
billable = fresh input + output + 10% x cached input
```

Cache reads cost providers about a tenth of the compute, and counting them
like fresh tokens would overcharge exactly the teams that engineered their
usage well. The 10 percent rate is a fixed billing rule, deliberately
separate from the estimation methodology: revising a methodology
coefficient can change an estimate, never your bill.

**Cache-heavy example**: 4,000M tokens tracked, 93 percent cache reads.
Billable = 280M fresh and output + 372M (10 percent of 3,720M cached) =
652M, which fits the Business tier despite four billion raw tokens.

**Reasoning-heavy example**: 60M input + 30M output (of which 25M are
reasoning tokens), no caching. Billable = 90M, which fits the Team tier.
Reasoning tokens are a reported subset of output tokens, so they are
already inside the output count and are never added again; they matter to
the footprint estimate, not to the bill.

## Why tokens, never footprint

Your bill depends only on token counts you can audit from your provider's
own reporting. No coefficient in the methodology can influence revenue, so
the estimates stay honest and so does the price.

## The retirement basket

Your tier's basket is pinned in writing: fixed quantities per category,
published on the pricing page and in the Terms. It retires every month
you are subscribed, independent of usage, including your final paid
month if you cancel. Baskets may only grow or hold within your paid
term; any reduction applies only at a renewal, after we email you 7 to
30 days ahead. The basket is a defined product allowance, not derived
from your estimate and not a representation that any footprint is
covered.

Each month's basket is ordered at that month's close. Retirements
typically confirm, and certificates arrive, three to six weeks after the
month ends; certificates list confirmed retirements only.

## At the cap

Estimation continues past the cap; nothing is gated or interrupted. The
basket stays the same. Sustained billable usage above the cap moves you
to the next tier at the following billing period, only after we email
you 7 to 30 days ahead with the new price and how to cancel.

## Managing the subscription

Paid plans renew automatically until you cancel. The Cancel subscription
button in the console, and the cancel link in every billing email, open
the cancellation screen directly; cancellation takes effect at the end
of the period you have paid for, with no fee, and paid periods are not
refunded except where the law requires. Manage billing opens the Stripe
customer portal for card changes and invoice history. If service lapses, your
AI tools are unaffected (the platform never touches your traffic); the
ledger simply stops retiring a basket after your final paid month, and
your history and certificates remain accessible.

## Annual billing

Personal Light bills yearly ($36/year), so payment processing fees
never consume a small fee. Team ($290/year) and Business ($2,500/year)
can be bought yearly, two months free. Yearly plans are charged in full
at the start of each year, renew yearly until cancelled, and we email you
before each yearly renewal.