Cost & Budgets

Understand usage and OCU billing for Core Ona Cloud organizations.

This page covers usage for Core organizations.

Enterprise organizations use a separate usage view and billing model. In Enterprise, usage is billed in credits rather than OCUs, and Settings → Cost & Budgets opens the enterprise view instead of the OCU view described here. See User budgets for per-user budgeting in Enterprise.

An OCU (Ona Compute Unit) measures resource consumption for Core plans. Your subscription balance is consumed in OCUs as you use environments and AI features.

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Access requirements

Organization admins and members with the Billing Viewer role can view Settings → Cost & Budgets. Billing Viewers can read usage data, but cannot add credits, change budgets, or update billing settings.

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Consumption rates

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Environments

OCUs are consumed while environments are running, based on size:

Environment	Resources	Rate
Standard	4 vCPUs / 16GB RAM	1 OCU/hour
GPU-accelerated	16 vCPUs / 64GB RAM	7 OCUs/hour

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Agentic tasks

Approximate OCU consumption for AI tasks:

Task	OCUs
Explain a small codebase	1
Explain a large codebase	3
Create a new web app	4
Add a feature to medium codebase	8

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Tracking your usage

To see how your organization is spending credits, go to Settings → Cost & Budgets. The Cost & Budgets page gives you a clear picture of your credit consumption over the last 7 or 30 days.

At the top, a credit summary shows your total balance, how many credits you’ve used, and how many are still available. Below that, a daily consumption chart breaks down your spending over time so you can spot trends or unexpected spikes.

If your credits are running low, a banner appears with an estimate of how many days you have left at your current pace so you can top up or adjust your usage before you hit zero.

Enterprise organizations can query this data programmatically with the AI cost usage API for organizations that bring their own provider keys (BYOK).

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Credit expiration

• Core subscription credits renew monthly as long as your subscription is active. They do not roll over.
• Top-up credits are valid for up to 1 year while you have an active subscription. Without an active subscription, top-up credits expire when the subscription ends.
• Usage order: Subscription credits are consumed first, then top-up credits. Bonus/gift credits are used last and typically have a longer expiration.

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Running low on credits?

• Stop environments you no longer need to conserve your remaining credits

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Next steps

• Billing overview - Manage subscriptions and payments
• Organizations overview - Understand where usage is owned and administered