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Aktoh Cyber

2026-08-04 · 7 min read

What an AI token costs you—and how to track spending

Usage-based pricing scares finance teams for one good reason: most vendors give you no ceiling. Here is how the pool, the overage, and the spend alerts fit together.

One pool, shared across the company

Paid plans include a pool of credits that everyone draws from — no per-seat carve-ups, no team running dry while another hoards. Operator includes 250, Professional 900, Enterprise 2,000, Enterprise Plus 4,500.

What happens when you run past it

Work does not stop. Anything beyond the pool bills as the cost of the AI models used plus your plan's published Aktoh rate per million tokens — $3.00 on Operator down to $1.55 on Enterprise Plus. You can also pre-buy blocks of credits at the lower rate, or turn on surge capacity for an incident.

Track usage before the invoice

Spend alerts and month-end projections help finance monitor usage. They are notifications, not spending caps. Usage beyond the pool remains billable at model cost plus the plan’s published Aktoh rate.

Takeaway. Compare platform fees, pooled credits, model costs, and the Aktoh usage margin together.

Start free. Add credits only when the work justifies it.

Run the whole fleet across unlimited nodes at zero platform fee — you pay only for tokens. Move to a pooled plan when the usage justifies the lower rate.