AgentBurn is open-core: the cost tracking engine, dashboard, API, and alerting system are all MIT-licensed. You can self-host it on a $5/month VPS and track every dollar your agents spend — forever, for free.
So why would anyone pay for the hosted version? Because running infrastructure isn't free, even when the software is.
Community (Free, Self-Hosted)
The MIT-licensed core includes everything a solo developer or small team needs:
- Up to 5 agents tracked
- 50,000 cost events per month
- 30-day data retention
- Real-time dashboards
- Budget alerts
- REST API for ingestion
- SQLite or MySQL database
Deploy it on any Node.js host: a VPS, your Kubernetes cluster, a Raspberry Pi. It's a standard Next.js app with Prisma ORM — nothing exotic.
When to Upgrade to Pro ($39/month)
The hosted Pro tier makes sense when:
- You need team access — Pro supports 5 team members with role-based access
- You're past 5 agents — Pro tracks unlimited agents
- You need higher event volume — 1M events/month vs 50K
- You want webhook integrations — Slack, Discord, PagerDuty alerts
- You don't want to maintain infrastructure — We handle uptime, backups, and updates
Enterprise
For organizations running hundreds of agents across multiple teams: SSO/SAML, RBAC, custom SLAs, on-premise deployment support, and data export to Snowflake or BigQuery for deep analytics.
The Philosophy
We believe cost visibility should be free. The core problem — "where is my money going?" — shouldn't be locked behind a paywall. We charge for scale, collaboration, and convenience, not for the basic insight that your research agent is 10x more expensive than you thought.