Pricing

PAREL is usage-based and prepaid. You are billed for what your agents actually consume — there is no seat fee and no fixed monthly minimum during beta.

# Pay-as-you-go (platform credits)

• Add funds to a USD balance from the console. Model usage is billed per token at the underlying provider's rates, plus a platform fee that covers runtime, sandbox, and infrastructure costs.
• Optional auto top-up: when your balance drops below a threshold you set, we top it up by an amount you choose using your saved card.
• You can see live usage and balance in the console.

# Bring your own keys (BYOK)

Prefer to pay model providers directly? Add Anthropic, OpenAI, or compatible endpoint credentials as model provider keys in the console. Model BYOK usage is billed by those providers, not by PAREL.

Runtime plugins keep their own secrets separately. For example, E2B is referenced in agent.yaml as apiKey: ${E2B_API_KEY} — a named secret you set with parel secrets set (or that parel deploy uploads from your local environment), not a model provider key.

# Beta

PAREL is in beta and pricing may change with notice. Final per-token rates and any platform margin are shown at top-up time in the console before you pay.

Questions about pricing or volume needs? contact@parel.sh.