Pricing & Billing

AOS pricing: install, hosting, and the Founding Founder License

AOS pricing is deliberately simple: a one-time install fee, a low monthly hosted line, and model tokens billed separately on a capped ledger. There is no contract and no PDF to sign. You agree at checkout, and you can pause or cancel the hosted line whenever you want. The one-time install - 1,000 dollars for the first 100 founders. This is the Founding Founder License. It is the full product, not a trial or a stripped-down tier. - After the first 100 deployments the install fee is 5,000 dollars. It is the exact same product either way. The only thing that changes is the price. - Your first month of hosted maintenance is included in the install fee, so the day you go live you owe nothing more until the following month. Monthly hosted maintenance - 100 dollars per month, hosted on your dedicated instance, pausable or cancellable anytime. - Prefer to pay yearly? 900 dollars per year instead of 1,200, so two months are effectively free. - No contract and no minimum term. Pause the hosted line whenever you want. The install fee is paid only once and your instance and data stay yours. Tokens are separate Model token usage is billed apart from the install and hosting, on your own ledger that is hard-capped and visible at any time. This keeps the predictable costs predictable and isolates the one variable cost so it can never surprise you. There are two paths: - AOS Credits (available today). You top up a balance, usage draws it down, and a transparent ledger shows exactly where every token went. Hard caps mean spend pauses rather than running away. - BYOK, bring your own keys (coming soon). Connect your own model provider accounts and pay the provider directly while AOS keeps tracking usage on the ledger. A token calculator on the site shows what to expect at your scale before you commit. For deeper detail see How tokens and AOS Credits work. What you actually own The install is a purchase, not a subscription to access. You own a private instance of the operating system running on infrastructure dedicated to you. The hosted line pays for maintenance, updates, monitoring, and backups. Stop paying it and you stop getting managed hosting, but the install fee is never re-charged. Common questions Is the first month really free? Yes. The install fee includes your first month of hosted maintenance. After that it is 100 dollars per month, pausable or cancellable anytime. Why is it 1,000 instead of 5,000? The Founding Founder License covers the first 100 deployments as a thank-you to early founders. After that the install is 5,000 dollars. Same product, same hosted price. Can I cancel? Anytime. There is no contract. Pause the hosted line whenever you want and resume later. Do tokens have a floor? No. You only pay for the work the agents actually do, and the ledger is hard-capped so you set the ceiling. Is there a setup or onboarding charge? No. The install fee is the only one-time cost. Onboarding is part of the product.

How tokens and AOS Credits work

Your AOS install fee and 100 dollars per month hosting do not include model token usage. That is billed separately so you only pay for the work the agents actually do, and so the one variable cost is isolated where you can see and cap it. This article explains how token billing works and how to keep it predictable. Two ways to pay for tokens - AOS Credits (available today). You top up a credit balance. Usage draws down against it with hard caps and a transparent ledger, so you can see exactly where tokens went and spend can never run away from you. - BYOK, bring your own keys (coming soon). Connect your own model provider accounts and pay the provider directly. AOS still tracks usage on the ledger so you keep one clear view of consumption. How spend stays predictable - Hard caps. The token ledger is capped. Once a cap is reached, work pauses and surfaces to you rather than silently overspending. - A visible ledger. You can check usage at any time, broken down by mission and department so you understand the burn instead of guessing. - Non-goals on every mission. Because each mission has three explicit non-goals, agents do not wander into expensive scope you did not ask for. - The money approval point. Any spend, refund, or commitment over your cap (default 1,000 dollars per move, 10,000 dollars per week) waits for your sign-off. - Model routing. Heavy reasoning goes to capable models, routine steps go to cheaper ones. You are not paying premium rates for trivial work. What actually drives token cost Three things move the number: how many missions run in parallel, how research-heavy the work is, and how much back-and-forth a mission needs to pass its acceptance bar. Clear briefs with tight non-goals are the single biggest lever you control. A sharp one-paragraph brief is cheaper than a vague one because the team gets it right sooner. Estimating your usage The token calculator on the AOS site gives you a realistic read on what to expect at your scale before you commit. As a rule of thumb, light operational work is inexpensive, and large research or content pushes cost more, but the ledger and caps keep all of it in view. Start with conservative caps, watch the ledger for a week, and adjust once you know your real pattern. What if I hit a cap mid-mission? The mission pauses and surfaces in your founder summary. You can raise the cap, top up credits, or let it wait. Nothing is lost. The evidence trail holds the work in progress, so when you lift the cap the team picks up exactly where it stopped. Keeping the bill boring The goal is a token bill with no surprises. Set caps you are comfortable with, keep briefs tight, review the ledger on the same day each week, and let the money approval point catch anything large. Predictable is the feature.

What hosting includes

AOS is hosted for you on infrastructure dedicated to your company. The 100 dollars per month hosted line is what pays for keeping that instance healthy, current, and backed up. This article explains what hosting includes, what it does not, and what happens if you pause it. What the hosted line covers - A dedicated instance. Your AOS runs on infrastructure provisioned for you, not a shared multi-tenant pool you are squeezed into. - Updates and maintenance. New capabilities, fixes, and improvements are rolled out and kept current without you managing upgrades. - Monitoring. The instance is watched so problems are caught and handled rather than left for you to discover. - Backups. Your data is backed up on a schedule so a bad day does not become a lost-everything day. - Security patching. The underlying system is kept patched as part of maintenance. In short, the hosted line is the managed-service part of AOS. You get the operating system. We keep it running. What hosting is separate from - The install fee is one-time and is the purchase of your instance. Hosting is the ongoing managed line. - Model tokens are billed separately on a capped ledger. Hosting does not include token usage, so the one variable cost stays isolated and visible. See How tokens and AOS Credits work. Pausing or cancelling There is no contract and no minimum term. You can pause or cancel the hosted line anytime: - Pause when you want to stop the monthly line for a while. Managed hosting stops while it is paused. - Resume later and pick back up. The install fee is never re-charged. Because the install is a purchase rather than a subscription to access, your instance and data remain yours. Stopping the hosted line stops the managed service, not your ownership. Annual option Prefer to pay yearly? Hosting is 900 dollars per year instead of 1,200, so two months are effectively free. Same managed service, lower effective rate. Where it runs AOS runs on your own dedicated instance rather than mixing your work into a shared environment. This is part of how the boundary stays clean: your data, your secrets, and your access live in a space provisioned for you, governed by the access controls and the five approval points. Common questions Do I have to manage servers? No. Hosting is fully managed. You run missions and approve decisions. The infrastructure is handled. What happens to my data if I pause? Your instance and data stay yours. Pausing stops the managed hosting line, not your ownership. Is there a separate backup charge? No. Backups are part of the hosted line. Can I move to bring-your-own-keys later? BYOK for model tokens is coming soon. It changes how tokens are billed, not how hosting works.