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When your agent uses an external service, who pays for it? The answer depends on whose credentials are being used.
  • User-provided credentials — You bring your own account (e.g., Slack, Notion, GitHub). Abundly doesn’t charge for these integrations since you’re already paying the provider directly.
  • Platform-provided credentials — Abundly provides the account (e.g., Perplexity web search, GPT image generation). Abundly pays the provider and converts the cost to credits, which are charged from your account.
So credits are charged whenever your agent uses an external service with platform-provided credentials.

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Pricing example

Suppose your agent has the following capabilities:
Three capability cards showing different authentication types
  • Slack asks you to provide credentials — your account is used, so no credits charged.
  • Stripe uses OAuth to connect your account — your account is used, so no credits charged.
  • Web Search works out of the box with no setup. But web search is still an external service (Perplexity) — since no user credentials are provided, Abundly’s account is used, so credits are charged on usage.
LLM inference — the “thinking” your agent does — also consumes credits, regardless of which integrations are involved. See Pricing for the full picture.

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Tracking credit usage

To see how credits are being consumed:
  1. Click the Abundly logo in the top left
  2. Select Usage and Limits
  3. View the breakdown by agent or time period
All Abundly accounts are team accounts, so credits are pooled across your entire team. Every agent and team member draws from the same balance, making it easy to manage costs in one place. See Pricing for more details.
You can set per-agent limits to prevent any single agent from consuming too many credits. See Usage & Limits for details.