Billing and usage

Workforce is billed per seat under your contract. Model spend is invoiced monthly at cost, with no markup. Tool calls are not metered.

Charge	How it is calculated	When it is billed
Seats	The seat price in your contract, per seat	Per your contract
Platform fee	A fixed fee, only if your contract includes one	Monthly or annually, per your contract
Model spend	What the month’s model requests through Merge cost Merge, rounded to the cent	At the end of each month

To change seat price, seat count, or platform fee, contact your account team. List prices are on the Workforce pricing page.

What counts as a seat

A seat is an active person in your organization. Pending invites and deactivated people (by an Admin or through SCIM) don’t count. Merge records your seat count daily.

Model spend

Model spend covers requests on Merge-managed provider keys, including tools the provider runs as part of a request. Requests on your own provider credentials are billed by the provider, not Merge.

Cap spend with Budgets. See spend by Group, model, and vendor on the Dashboard, and savings in Insights.