From 687302634ae45bbc23413299763e89be05e5163f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Him188 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:20:01 +0900 Subject: [PATCH] docs(agents): the free minutes become a $5 trial balance that covers every agent charge Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 --- agents/pricing.mdx | 18 +++++++++--------- agents/quickstart.mdx | 2 +- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/agents/pricing.mdx b/agents/pricing.mdx index 9bbf5f3..30c3fff 100644 --- a/agents/pricing.mdx +++ b/agents/pricing.mdx @@ -1,10 +1,10 @@ --- title: "Pricing" -description: "Rates for conversations, LLM usage, telephony, and transfers, plus free minutes and billing" +description: "Rates for conversations, LLM usage, telephony, and transfers, plus the trial balance and billing" icon: "credit-card" --- -Agents cost **$0.06 per minute** of conversation, with a small number of add-ons for telephony and token-billed models. Every account starts with free minutes, and everything after that is charged against your API credit. +Agents cost **$0.06 per minute** of conversation, with a small number of add-ons for telephony and token-billed models. Every account starts with a $5 trial balance, and everything after that is charged against your API credit. ## Rates @@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ The standard phone surcharge applies to inbound calls and most outbound calls. O The countries purchased numbers can call are listed under [allowed destinations](/agents/telephony/outbound-calls#allowed-destinations). -## Free minutes +## Trial balance -Every account starts with **60 free minutes** of agent conversation. They apply to real usage: +Every account starts with a one-time **$5 trial balance**, about 60 minutes of conversation at the base rate. It pays for real usage at the normal rates: -- Web sessions, phone calls, and transferred call time all draw on the same pool, second for second. -- Number rental draws on it too, at one minute per day of rental, so you can get a number and test inbound calls without a balance. -- LLM tokens never draw on the pool. A session on a token-billed LLM needs a positive API credit balance to start. Its conversation minutes still come out of the free pool, and only the tokens are charged. -- [Preview calls](/agents/test/preview-calls) in the Builder are free on every LLM, including token-billed ones, and never count against the pool. +- Every charge draws on it first: web sessions, phone calls and their surcharges, transferred call time, number rental, and LLM tokens on token-billed models. Only what the trial balance does not cover is charged to your API credit. +- A session can start on any model, including token-billed ones, as long as the trial balance or your API credit is above zero. +- [Preview calls](/agents/test/preview-calls) in the Builder are free on every LLM, including token-billed ones, and never draw on the trial balance. +- The [Agents billing page](https://fish.audio/app/agents/billing) shows how much of the trial balance is left, and the Agents home page shows it as a usage meter. ## Billing @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Every charge is listed on the [Agents billing page](https://fish.audio/app/agent - Create an agent and talk to it within the free minutes. + Create an agent and talk to it on the trial balance.