Pricing and credits

Helios bills for what your agents actually consume: model usage. There are no per-action fees, no per-integration fees, and no charge for connecting a tool or attaching an MCP server.

Credits

Usage is metered in Helios credits.

1,000,000 credits = $1.00

Every model call an agent makes - in chat or in a workflow run - is priced at its underlying token cost and converted to credits. Usage is attributed to the organization that owns the chat or workflow.

What drives cost

How much the agent has to read and think. A digest over ten pull requests costs more than one over two. An agent that has to search an unfamiliar API costs more the first time than the tenth, because it remembers what worked.

How long it runs. A workflow that wakes up every five minutes and finds nothing to do still pays for the model call that decided there was nothing to do. If a task doesn't need to run that often, don't schedule it that often.

Not what it touches. Calling a hundred GitHub endpoints in one run costs the same as calling one, apart from the tokens spent reading the responses.

Keeping cost down

• Scope the trigger. Filters on integration events stop irrelevant events from ever starting a run. A push filtered to main is far cheaper than one on every branch.
• Let the agent stop early. A prompt that says "if nothing changed, do nothing" ends the run in one turn.
• Prefer schedules to polling. A cron trigger that runs hourly costs a twelfth of one that runs every five minutes.
• Persist state. Keeping a record in ~/workspace of what's already been handled stops an agent from re-reading the same data every run. See advanced.

When credits run out

If your organization has exhausted its credits, new chats and workflow runs are rejected before an agent starts. Runs already in flight finish. Existing workflows, integrations, and data are untouched - top up and they resume on the next trigger.

Billing

Usage is reported continuously and billed through Stripe. See your organization's billing settings for current balance, usage history, and plan.