> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://klipy.ai/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How does result-based pricing work?

> You pay for what Klipy delivers itself or what costs real money — not per seat, not per action, not for working alongside it. Rejecting a draft is free.

Klipy only charges a token when it delivers a result you accept, or when it spends real money on your behalf — transcribing a meeting, pulling enrichment data. Reading your inbox, drafting follow-ups, surfacing to-dos, and cleaning up your CRM in the background all day is never billed; working alongside Klipy is always free.

<Note>
  No charge ever lands without a moment where you say yes, at a price you can see before you say it. Reject a draft, ignore a suggestion, or let it expire, and it costs nothing.
</Note>

## Why do other pricing models charge you for the wrong thing?

Usage pricing has a bad reputation, and it earned it. The problem is *what* other models put the meter on.

| Model                    | You pay when…                 | The catch                                                                                                                           |
| ------------------------ | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Per seat**             | someone is on the roster      | You pay for empty chairs and logins that never open the tool. The tool can do nothing all month and still bill in full.             |
| **Per action**           | the software does anything    | Every draft, every API call, every retry the robot makes is a line item — whether or not it helped you.                             |
| **Per outcome**          | a vague "outcome" is claimed  | Sounds aligned, but "outcome" is fuzzy and disputable, so the bill is impossible to predict.                                        |
| **Klipy — result-based** | you accept a delivered result | You pay at the moment of consent, for something you can see. Autonomous work you didn't ask for, and work you reject, cost nothing. |

The unexpected part: Klipy does not charge for the AI thinking, for the AI drafting, or for your own typing. It charges at the instant a result crosses from *proposed* to *accepted* — and not a moment before.

## What exactly is one token in Klipy?

Tokens are legible because each one maps to something you can point at.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="1 token" icon="circle-check">
    One CRM suggestion you accept — a new contact, a stage change, a logged deal.
  </Card>

  <Card title="2 tokens" icon="send">
    One follow-up email you approved and sent.
  </Card>

  <Card title="10 tokens" icon="mic">
    One hour of a meeting transcribed by the notetaker.
  </Card>

  <Card title="0.5 tokens" icon="building">
    One company enriched with fresh firmographic data.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

An entire overnight delegation — Klipy working autonomously to clean your pipeline and write five records — is a flat **1 token** for the run, no matter how many records it touches. Your own work never counts: creating or updating any CRM record by hand, rewriting a message with AI in the composer, and editing over the API are all free.

<Tip>
  There is no create-versus-update distinction and no per-write metering inside an autonomous run. Cheap mechanical writes are free; you pay for the delivered result, once.
</Tip>

## When does Klipy actually charge a token?

Every token is spent at a consent point you control:

* **You see the price before you commit.** The cost is visible at the accept button, not discovered on an invoice.
* **Rejected and preview work is free.** Generating a draft, previewing it, or running a delegation in sandbox mode charges nothing. A run that fails charges nothing.
* **Overage is off by default.** If you use up your included tokens, Klipy pauses new work instead of billing you further — nothing bills past your allotment unless you've opted in to pay-per-use.

This is why the incentive stays aligned with yours: Klipy only earns when it produces work good enough for you to keep.

## How does Klipy avoid a surprise invoice?

The dread with usage pricing is the surprise bill — the death-by-a-thousand-cuts drip of micro-charges you can't count until the statement arrives.

Klipy removes it three ways: no charge without your yes, a default that pauses your account at zero instead of billing past it, and one legible line per autonomous run instead of a stream of tiny charges. Pay-per-use overage exists as an opt-in at a flat **\$0.10 per token**, for accounts that ask for it — off by default for everyone else.

<Info>
  **A Tuesday morning.** Your weekly pipeline cleanup ran overnight. You wake up to five records updated, three stale deals flagged, and two follow-ups drafted and waiting for your review. The meter shows one line: **1 token**. You gave consent once, when you set the delegation up. The work is done, and the bill is exactly what you could have predicted — to the token.
</Info>

## What does Klipy charge for, honestly?

Klipy is not "free to use." It charges for two things, deliberately:

1. **Results the agent delivers on its own** — an accepted suggestion, an approved send, a completed delegation run.
2. **Actions with real marginal cost** — meeting transcription and company enrichment, where Klipy pays a provider.

Everything in between — the drafting, the reading, the mechanical CRM writes, and every minute you spend working alongside the agent — is free.

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  <Card title="What costs tokens" icon="table" href="/docs/guides/billing/what-costs-tokens">
    The exact table: what's charged, what's free, and how many tokens each action costs.
  </Card>

  <Card title="What is a token" icon="coins" href="/docs/guides/billing/what-is-a-token">
    The unit defined, with human-scale examples.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Plans and limits" icon="layers" href="/docs/guides/billing/plans-and-limits">
    Included tokens per seat, and what happens if you use them all.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Managing usage" icon="gauge" href="/docs/guides/billing/managing-usage">
    See your usage, get alerts, and know what happens at zero.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>
