How you pay for runs. Part of the Terms of Service.
A credit is worth US$0.01 of use on Sushibelt. Credits belong to a team, not to a person, and are spent by anyone on the team who can run workflows. They are not money, cannot be transferred to another team and earn no interest.
A new team starts with a free grant. Free credits cannot be refunded, and may be withdrawn if they are abused.
Each step of a run is charged what its model costs plus Sushibelt's markup, and a step on your own provider key is charged only Sushibelt's fee. Before a run starts you see an estimate, and credits are held for it; a step that costs less than its hold releases the rest. A team may set a ceiling no single step can exceed.
If a run fails, every step that did not finish is refunded automatically. Steps that finished are charged — their outputs exist — and retrying the run reuses them rather than charging them again.
Credits do not expire while the team exists.
Purchased credits that have not been spent can be refunded on request within 14 days of purchase, to the card that paid. After that, and for credits already spent, a purchase is final — except where the law of your country gives you more.
A team's last owner can close it. Credits left in a closing team are given up, and Sushibelt asks the owner to confirm that before it closes; the loss is written to the team's ledger. Deleting your own account does not touch a team's credits — they stay with the team. If Sushibelt closes the service, unspent purchased credits are refunded.
Prices change: a model's price can rise with seven days' notice and fall at once, and the price of a run is the one in effect when it started. Changes to these terms are announced before they apply.