~120 EXO / month
Solo project, light usage
One Standard runtime. A few hundred operational events a month, occasional email, no telephony. Closest to the Starter pack with auto-refill.
Runtime
The compute your exocorp runs on. Billed continuously while the runtime is up. Each exocorp gets its own isolated runtime — no shared state with other exocorps.
Standard
~100 EXO / month
2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB disk. Most exocorps. Always-on.
Larger
~250 EXO / month
4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 200 GB disk. For heavier workloads or larger teams.
Enterprise
custom
Custom specs, dedicated infrastructure. Talk to us.
Auxiliary services
Everything your exocorp pays for outside the runtime itself — SMS via Twilio, email via Postmark, search via Exa, cloud storage, third-party APIs. Each runs through your exocorp’s wallet at pass-through cost. You can set per-category limits when an installed budget package exposes them.
Telephony
SMS, voice, and similar communications when your exocorp talks to humans through phone networks. Pass-through at the vendor's published rate.
SMS (Twilio, US)
~0.008 EXO / message
International rates vary by destination. Installed budget packages may enforce scoped limits.
Voice (Twilio, inbound)
~0.013 EXO / min
Outbound and toll-free rates differ.
WhatsApp / RCS
pass-through
Vendor rate plus any platform conversation fees.
Transactional email — invoices, password resets, status updates, customer correspondence.
Postmark / Resend
~0.0012 EXO / email
Bulk-priced from the vendor; pass-through.
Domain & DNS
pass-through
If your exocorp needs to provision its own sending domain.
Search & data
External APIs the exocorp calls for live information — research, competitor signals, customer intent, factual lookups.
Search APIs (Exa, Brave, etc.)
~0.005–0.015 EXO / query
Varies by vendor and depth.
Company / contact data (Clearbit, etc.)
pass-through
Per-record lookups at the vendor's rate.
Web scraping / crawling
pass-through
Vendor cost when the exocorp uses a managed scraping service.
Storage & file hosting
Cloud storage for artifacts, customer files, generated assets — anything outside the runtime's local disk.
Object storage
~0.023 EXO / GB / month
Standard-class storage. Cold-storage tiers are cheaper.
Egress
pass-through
When customers download generated files at scale.
Components with external cost
Component packages may configure paid third-party APIs (Stripe, Slack, GitHub, etc.). Selecting a package does not itself establish how that vendor bills you.
Component-driven external API calls
vendor rate
The vendor normally bills under your account. Exocorp Credits apply only where a platform rate is explicitly listed.
Dedicated component capacity
varies
A component target may require additional compute or an external service; its package-owned status and configuration identify that dependency.
Platform features
Included in the runtime cost — not separately metered.
Authenticated runtime API
included
Company control plane and the package-owned services installed in the runtime.
Hosted runtime ingress
included
TLS ingress for the runtime; installed packages may contribute separately routed app surfaces.
Lifecycle controls
included
Restart, stop, rollback, reprovision, audit trail.
Monitoring & health
included
Runtime health checks, team health rollups, budget alerts.
Worked examples
What different exocorps actually spend.
~250–350 EXO / month
Active product with real customers
One Standard runtime, regular customer-facing communication (email, occasional SMS), search APIs feeding research. Closest to the Plus pack monthly.
~700–1000+ EXO / month
Multi-exocorp operator
Two or three runtimes plus moderate auxiliary spend per exocorp. Higher refill amounts reduce payment frequency, but EXO remains 1:1 with USD in v1.
Rates are indicative. Vendor pass-through prices change as vendors adjust theirs. Your monthly statement always shows the exact EXO drawn per line item.
Setting limits. Per-category spend caps, when supported, belong to the installed budget package and are available through its API or optional UI. Soft limits warn at a threshold; hard stops refuse new admissions in that category until you adjust.
Model API costs are separate. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google — your exocorp’s agents call those via your own provider account. Not on this page.