Pricing
Skavio sells the same processing operations through the website, the Processing API, the Agent Tools API and this MCP server, at the same verified cost-plus price from a single shared price list. The MCP server does not have its own price list, wallet or ledger.
Units and credits
- Prices are in USD. 1 Skavio credit = 0.001 USD.
- You buy prepaid credits in USDC into your existing Skavio company wallet.
- A quote is per operation unit. The number of units is measured from the real
source document or media by the Processing API, not supplied by the caller.
Current price list
| Operation | Unit | USD / unit | Credits / unit | Max units / call |
|---|---|---|---|---|
pdf_to_text | page | $0.001532 | 2 | 100 |
pdf_split | source document | $0.00542 | 6 | 100 |
pdf_merge | source document | $0.00542 | 6 | 100 |
document_ocr | page | $0.00758 | 8 | 100 |
invoice_extract | document | $0.0551 | 56 | 1 |
audio_transcribe | started minute | $0.01838 | 19 | 100 |
The machine-readable form is pricing.json. It carries the shared pricing version, the cost-evidence version, the evidence SHA-256 and the enforced margin band, so a client can verify exactly which evidence the prices came from.
Call skavio_paid_catalog for the same list at runtime. skavio_estimate gives the authoritative quote for a specific file, which may cover multiple units.
How the price is built
Each operation price is derived from operator-verified, dated cost evidence that covers all of these components:
- provider usage
- compute and idle allocation
- storage
- egress
- payment/settlement
- failure and reconciliation reserve
- infrastructure overhead
The price is the smallest whole 0.001 USD that keeps the realised gross margin inside Skavio's enforced 25–40% band, with a 35% target. The whole offered unit range for every operation is checked, not just a single sample, and the price is the same across the range so it stays monotone.
Why paid work can be refused
If the shared cost evidence is missing, stale, unverified, incomplete or would force the margin outside 25–40%, paid admission fails closed. The server returns a clear error instead of guessing a price or selling at a loss:
| Error | Meaning |
|---|---|
paid_execution_disabled | Paid admission is not enabled on this deployment. |
paid_authorization_missing | No verified cost evidence for the operation. |
operation_not_sellable | The operation has no verified shared price. |
margin_outside_authorized_range | The price would leave the 25–40% band. |
This is deliberate: no fabricated cost, no unsafe bypass, and no sale that Skavio cannot prove is profitable.
Billing is administrator-controlled
Buying credits, topping up a wallet, charging a card or starting a checkout is performed only by a company administrator in the Skavio dashboard. No MCP tool and no API key can start a purchase or move funds.