What is Pay-per-call?
Pay-per-call means charging for each individual API request instead of a subscription or quota. The caller pays the quoted price for a call and gets the result; there’s no plan to manage and no “calls left this month.”
Pay-per-call fits autonomous agents well: an agent can decide, call by call, whether a result is worth its price, and operators don’t have to provision API keys and plans for callers they’ve never met.
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