Pricing

ayoai is open to builders, and this page describes how you're charged rather than locking in final rates. We're setting exact pricing together with our first builders — when you join, you'll see your rates in your dashboard before anything is ever billed.

What you pay for

You pay for the two things that actually take compute to run — and nothing else:

• Agent runtime — the time your agents spend reasoning on ayoai's substrate, metered while a server is active. Your engine's own work (rendering, physics, animation, movement) is never metered. That stays on your side.
• Reasoning tokens — the language-model work behind goals, planning, and memory. A generous token allowance is included with your agent runtime, scaled to the hours you actually run, and you're billed only for what goes beyond it. Most workloads never reach it. Lightweight behavior modules that don't call a model don't incur token charges.

No per-seat fees, and no markup on your own engine's compute.

Starter credits & balance

Every new account gets $30 in starter credits — applied automatically on your first API call — so you can build and test before you spend anything. Your balance is always visible, and ayoai checks it before launching a session — so a long run never surprises you with a bill. Need more to keep building? Reach out and we'll top you up.

Plans

As plans arrive they will stay simple and usage-based: a modest monthly base that includes a generous allowance of runtime and tokens, plus pay-as-you-go for anything beyond it. Our first builders help us set those allowances — tell us what you need to help shape them.

Questions

Pricing questions? Email zak@ayoai.com.