Credits (a prepaid wallet)
Orca bills on prepaid credits. Your organization holds a credit wallet, and runs draw down from it as they meter LLM usage. When the balance runs low, you top up. Top-ups go through checkout — Polar is the payment integration behind it. From the dashboard you start a checkout, complete payment, and the credits land in your wallet.Credits are consumed as agents run and call models. To keep an eye on the balance and burn rate, watch the Usage dashboard.
Spend caps (guardrails that gate runs)
Spend caps are per-tenant daily and monthly limits that gate runs. Before a run starts, Orca checks the tenant’s spend against its caps; if the tenant is over cap, the run is refused. Caps are a safety guardrail against runaway spend — distinct from the wallet balance itself.Usage metering
Every run records tokens and cost as it meters LLM usage. This per-run metering is what draws down credits, enforces spend caps, and powers the Usage dashboard, where you can break spend down over time.For operators / self-host
Spend caps are opt-in and tunable through environment variables:
Threshold email alerts (for example, approaching a cap) are delivered via Resend.
Pricing and specific credit amounts are managed in-product and on the hosted plan — this page intentionally avoids quoting figures. Check the dashboard for current balances, caps, and rates.
Related
Usage dashboard
Token and cost breakdown per run and over time.
Roles & Access
Who can manage billing and caps.