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title: "Bill AI usage. Know your margin. | Tanso"
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description: "Open-source monetization for AI products. Connect usage, pricing, credits and entitlements, and see cost, revenue and margin by customer, feature and model."
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# Bill AI usage. Know your margin. | Tanso

Tanso is open-source monetization for AI products. Connect usage, pricing, credits and entitlements, and see cost, revenue and margin by customer, feature and model.

## Bill AI usage. Know your margin.

- Meter usage with customer, feature, model, provider, cost and revenue context.
- Configure plans with flat, usage-based or graduated pricing.
- Manage prepaid credits, grants, expiry and transaction history.
- Check entitlements before work and report usage after.
- Connect Stripe for payment collection or Stripe-led billing.
- Use the REST API, TypeScript SDK, and optional MCP server.

## Start with open source

The software is free under AGPL-3.0. Your team operates its own instance and handles deployment, credentials, backups and updates. Infrastructure, connected-provider and payment-processing costs are separate.

- [Get the source code](https://github.com/tansohq/tanso-oss)
- [Self-hosting quickstart](https://tanso.mintlify.app/quickstart)
- [Product overview](https://tansohq.com/product/agent-monetization.md)

## Paid hosting

Paid hosting starts at $375 per month for up to $50,000 in monthly billed volume. Higher selections are $995/month up to $200,000 and $1,495/month up to $400,000. Higher volumes use custom pricing. Hosted plans include 20 million API requests per month, then $5 per additional million. Billing-volume measurement and request allowances are confirmed during setup. All hosted plans require contact; there is no free hosted tier.

- [Full pricing](https://tansohq.com/pricing.md)
- [Contact us about hosting](mailto:kat@tansohq.com?subject=Tanso%20hosted%20inquiry)

## Monetization for customers' agents

Products operated with tanso-oss can expose public pricing, opt-in customer signup, scoped credentials and supported purchase flows. Money-moving MCP tools require explicit confirmation. These interfaces belong to the operated instance and its customers. They are not Tanso's own hosting checkout.

## Resources

- [AI Pricing Finder](https://tansohq.com/ai-pricing-finder): research how AI products price
- [Blog](https://tansohq.com/blog)
- [Documentation](https://tanso.mintlify.app)
- [Agent integration guide](https://tansohq.com/docs/agent-auth.md)
- [Site information JSON](https://tansohq.com/api/agent)

Contact: kat@tansohq.com.