Pricing
Recovea bills one thing today: a flat platform fee sized by the LLM spend you route. It buys you control and proof of your AI spend — one neutral, BYO-key endpoint to see, govern, and attest every dollar across every provider. We take no margin on your provider bill; your provider keys stay pass-through on your own credentials. The verified-savings share is off · proof pending — see The verified-savings share below.
Optimization is a commodity. Proof is the product. They estimate; we settle. The platform fee is flat and does not depend on proving savings — you get spend visibility, an auditable cost ledger, and (on Professional) an in-path gateway from day one.
The tiers
| Tier | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 — no credit card | Observe-only spend visibility: read-only metering of every request against a frozen reference price list, the free scan, 2 seats, 30-day retention. No card, any spend. |
| Standard | $79/mo | The control tier, purchasable today: enforced budget caps, a kill-switch, spend alerts (50/80/95%), and per-key/per-team/per-feature attribution, plus a cost-per-successful-output "is it worth it" view. It buys control and ROI, not a savings claim — no verified-savings share. |
| Professional | $249/mo | In-path gateway (one base_url, BYO-key, fail-open), cross-provider cost visibility, an auditable cost ledger (every basis labeled), and cache/dedup savings (byte-identical, concierge-verified — not a self-serve billed dollar). Everything here is live today. |
| Scale & Enterprise | Talk to us | Higher routed volume, SSO/SOC 2 pack, a named engineer, and contract-grade attestation. Talk to us. |
Standard sells control, not savings. The $79/mo control tier is buyable now and is priced for the budget-holder who wants caps, a kill-switch, alerts, and attribution. It carries no verified-savings share — that share is off · proof pending on every tier (see below).
Full tier comparison: recovea.ai/pricing.
The verified-savings share: Planned (Phase 5)
Status: off · proof pending. The verified-savings share is not billed today and is not part of any tier you can buy now. The design below is planned for Phase 5 — it turns on only after the eval gate runs at volume and the ledger can prove savings net of quality. Until then nothing here bills a dollar.
When the share does ship, this is how it is planned to work:
Share due = max(0, 25% × Net Verified Savings − Subscription)
Total fee = Subscription + Share due
…with the share reduced (to zero if needed) so that, whenever
Net Verified Savings > 0, Total fee ≤ ⅓ × Net Verified Savings.
The subscription itself is never reduced by the cap and remains
payable in any month, including a zero-savings month.
Net Verified Savings = (Baseline cost − Realized cost) ± Adjustments
- 25% of verified savings is the planned share (contracted within a 20–30% band), with the subscription to be credited against the share each month.
- Total Recovea fees would be capped at one-third of your verified savings whenever there are verified savings — the deal is designed to stay positive-sum at any savings level. The cap would trim the share, not the subscription.
- The baseline would be the cost you would have paid, computed against a frozen reference price list: locked, immutable, audit-logged.
- Net of quality. Any lever that could affect output would pass a cross-family non-inferiority gate on your real traffic before it counts toward savings.
- Cost per successful output would be the billed unit, so a cheaper-but-worse answer never reads as savings.
- Adjustments would strip out savings we didn't cause (your own traffic growth, a provider price cut) so the share never claims them.
When it ships, you'll see the exact figure, expanded with drill-downs to the underlying requests, in the ledger — recomputable from hash-chained rows you can export and re-derive yourself. Today, what's live is the metering and cost ledger; you can export those rows now as CSV or re-derivable JSON.
Start free, at any spend
The Free tier runs in observe-only mode: we meter every request against a frozen reference price list so you can see your spend across providers; we change nothing. The in-dashboard counterfactual view is planned — today the free scan takes your monthly spend and providers and returns a labeled estimate of your gap — no integration, no logs uploaded — currently prepared and delivered within about 48 hours. Free at any spend level, no card.
What you do not pay for
- No margin on provider spend. Your provider keys run pass-through; we never sit in the money path for your inference bill.
- No verified-savings charge today. The 25% share is off · proof pending and bills nothing — see The verified-savings share. Observe-only estimates are labeled estimates and bill nothing.
- No 5xx tax. If our layer fails, the request flows straight through to your provider on your own key: never billed, never an error.
Who Professional is for
Professional is built for the technical budget-holder who needs to see, govern, and prove AI spend across providers — one endpoint, one base URL, your own keys. If you mainly want a board-ready cost view, that's a self-select lane on the same product; the control and proof come first. If your AI spend is small enough that a flat platform fee won't pay for itself yet, run the free scan, keep the free observe tier, and we'll tell you the day the math turns in your favor.
Reverting
Pricing has no lock-in mechanism. Reverting Recovea is one line (point your base URL back at your provider); the subscription cancels at period end. You keep the ledger history for the periods you were billed on, and you can export it as CSV or re-derivable JSON on the way out.
Next steps
- How Recovea works: the baseline, the levers, and the cost ledger
- Authentication: Recovea keys and pass-through provider credentials
- Run the free scan: the no-commitment starting point