Compute credit

Mint a key

1. Convert at least $1.00 of owed balance to the compute rail.
2. Open Settle, pick compute, then lock a vendor and a model.
3. Enter an amount. The spend cap equals that amount. A $1.00 key can spend at most $1.00.
4. Copy the key. It is displayed exactly once.

Redeeming locks the vendor for that key. Tokens past the cap are rejected upstream of the model, so you cannot accidentally run a bill. The desk’s own OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other credentials stay on the server — you never see them and never paste them.

Vendors and models

Shown once

The full owed_ key is shown once, at mint. After that the desk stores only a prefix and a hash — enough to meter and to revoke, not enough to reconstruct. Leave the page without copying it and the credit is not lost: you mint a new key from whatever is left on the rail. The old plaintext is simply gone.

Revoke

Revoke a key from the key list. The gateway rejects that prefix on the very next request. Unused cap on a revoked key does not come back as owed balance — revoking is a security action, not a refund.

Metering

• Requests are priced on the vendor’s published token rates.
• Every request rounds up to the nearest cent.
• A request that would exceed the remaining cap is refused with 402 before it reaches the model.
• The key list shows cap, spent, remaining, request count, and last use for every key.

Point the official SDK at this origin — see API reference. Or stay on the desk and use compute chat.