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Pricing
How Orthogonal pricing works
Pay per call
You pay only for what you use. No subscriptions or minimums.
Tools use fixed or usage-based prices, shown in the catalog and returned by search. For a fixed-price tool, the listed price is the cost of one call:
Pricing Tiers
These examples illustrate price ranges, not subscription plans. Check the catalog for current prices. For usage-based tools, request a quote with your inputs before running a call.
| Tier | Price Range | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0.001 - $0.01 | Simple lookups and lightweight searches |
| Standard | $0.01 - $0.10 | Email discovery and contact enrichment |
| Premium | $0.10 - $1.00 | Deep research, AI analysis, bulk operations |
Who pays
Every call is paid one of four ways.
| Payer | How |
|---|---|
| Your account’s credits | Prepaid. Works over MCP, the CLI and your code with an API key. Add funds. |
| Your organization | Members connect to https://www.orthogonal.com/org and sign in; the organization picked at sign-in pays. Organization API keys bill it too. See MCP setup. |
| The agent’s own account | The agent signs itself up with an email code and a phone check, and gets a one-time $1 starter credit (one per phone number). Give it https://www.orthogonal.com/agent-signup.md. |
| A wallet, no account | Pay per call over x402 (/pay), MPP (/mpp) or Nanopayments (/np). See Payments. |
To see what is left, run orth balance. It shows the credits of whoever the key bills: your account for a personal key, the organization’s shared credits for an organization key. Over an MCP sign-in, ask your agent: the account tool returns the balance and who pays for calls.
Caps and allowed APIs keep an agent within budget. See Spend limits.
Every API response includes the cost: