The daily active-user grant is now $0.20 (2,000 credits), up from $0.10 — credited once per day on days you use the platform while signed in. The $0.30 signup grant and the 7-day expiry on free credits are unchanged.
Changelog
What's new on SkillSafe — new models, billing changes, and platform features. For deeper dives, see the blog.
Claude Sonnet 5 and the GPT-5.6 family, available for apps
Hosted apps can now run Claude Sonnet 5 and the GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, and Luna) alongside the existing Claude, GPT, and Workers AI models. Pick a model per app, or let callers override it per run with the $model input. Rates, caps, and time limits for every model are on the model catalog.
Bring your own provider key
Publishers can now attach their own Anthropic or OpenAI API key to an app. BYOK runs bill users a flat 1 credit per run — the publisher’s key pays for inference, and markup is disabled — making it a pure cost-recovery lane. Keys are write-only and managed from the per-app dashboard.
Cleaner billing activity
Run holds and their refunds are now folded into a single activity row showing the exact settled cost, instead of a confusing hold/refund pair. The billing page also gained app-subscription status cards and a source filter for the activity ledger.
Budget-scaled runs
A run whose worst-case hold exceeds your balance no longer fails with a 402. The hold now scales down to what your balance can cover — the run executes with a reduced output cap instead of not executing at all. Runs still settle at actual usage, so you only ever pay for tokens the model consumed.
Free credit grants: $0.30 signup + $0.10 daily
Every new verified account starts with a $0.30 signup credit, and signed-in accounts earn a $0.10 grant on each day they use the platform — enough to try any app without adding funds. Free grants expire after 7 days (purchased credits and earnings never expire), and the billing page now separates promotional credit from earned and purchased balance.
Credits redenominated: $1 = 10,000 credits
Credits moved to a finer denomination — $1 now equals 10,000 credits (1 credit = $0.0001) — so cheap runs are billed exactly instead of rounding up to a whole cent. Existing balances were converted in place at no change in dollar value, and peer-to-peer transfers gained a 100-credit (one cent) minimum.
App subscriptions and in-app purchases
App creators can now sell subscription plans (recurring credit grants, renewed automatically) and one-off in-app purchases on top of per-run markup. Payments run on the platform’s credit system — no Stripe integration to write — with a 10% platform fee per sale; earnings mature 14 days and cash out at face value.