Billing

AI Safety Gate bills based on **protected actions**.

Payments grant access to the platform and applicable plan features during the billing period; they are not a guarantee of any particular enforcement outcome, decision accuracy, or business result.

A **protected action** is **one call** to POST /api/validate (or the SDK equivalent) that produces a deterministic decision: PASS, WARN, or BLOCK.

This page explains:

• what counts as an action
• what is included
• how overage is priced
• what happens at the hard cap (pause)
• how the monthly reset works

What counts as one protected action

• A single request to /api/validate counts as **1 protected action**.
• It counts **regardless of outcome** (PASS, WARN, or BLOCK).
• Retries count as additional actions.

Included usage

Each plan includes a fixed number of protected actions per billing period:

• **Included actions per month**: as displayed in your account and billing experience

If your account stays at or below this included amount, your overage cost for that month is **$0**.

Overage pricing

If your plan enables overage billing, actions above the included amount are billed as overage.

• Overage may be enabled for your plan.
• If enabled, actions above the included amount are billed as overage at the price shown in your billing experience.

Current default overage pricing is **$0.002 per action**.

Hard cap and pause behavior

Overage is protected by a hard cap.

When the account hits the hard cap for the current billing period:

• further calls to /api/validate are **blocked**
• the account is marked as **paused for overage**
• responses are deterministic and include a reason indicating the cap was reached

This ensures a predictable maximum monthly overage exposure.

Monthly reset

Billing is monthly.

At the start of a new billing period:

• usage counters reset for the new month
• accounts paused due to overage are automatically **unpaused**

Common questions

Does `WARN` cost money?

Yes. WARN is still a protected action.

Does polling an approval token cost money?

Polling is a protected action if it calls /api/validate again. If your integration polls without calling /api/validate, it does not consume actions.

Can I disable overage?

If your plan disables overage, usage stops at the included amount and additional validations are blocked once the included limit is reached.

Billing disputes and changes

• If you believe you were billed incorrectly, you must follow the dispute process described in the Refund Policy.
• Plan limits, enforcement behavior, availability, and pricing may change over time, including to address security, reliability, abuse, or operational requirements.