Setup
Account & billing
Create the account
conifer.build/account. Email and password, or Google or GitHub. Not needed for local models; the account pays for cloud inference and mints the API key.
Set up pay as you go
The button on /account opens a Stripe page. The card charges a one-time $5 starter balance today, then one monthly charge for what you actually used. No subscription, no tiers, no credits to pre-buy. The card lives with Stripe; Conifer never handles it. Per-token rates are on the catalog and /pricing.
Watch the balance
| Where | What you get |
|---|---|
| /account | The statement: balance, usage, keys. |
GET /v1/balance | The same numbers for scripts. See the API reference. |
How spending is metered is on Billing & caching.