[Makisuo]

Problem

Chat turns (in-app chat, triage, PR reviews and replies, the bot) charge AI credits through balances.track_tokens, so Autumn prices every call from its per-model rate table. That table follows models.dev and drifts. For the PR review model (deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017) the rate on tracked events went:

Events from	input $/M	cache read $/M	output $/M
Nov 4	0.15	0.003	0.60
Nov 9 to 12	0.006	0.005	0.50

The token counts Autumn receives match our spans exactly. Only the price is wrong. For one org on Nov 11, Autumn recorded $0.97 of AI credits for PR reviews that OpenRouter charged us $2.98 for.

Change

Chat turns are now billed the same way security audits already are: the cost OpenRouter reports for each call, plus the AI credit markup.

• platform/reported-cost.ts: the audit's reportedCost estimator, moved out of security-audit/agents.ts and now also passed to chat runs (estimateCostMicrousd in chat/run.ts).
• chat/usage.ts: each AI credit charge carries providerCostMicrousd, summed across merged calls. Priced and unpriced calls never merge.
• autumn-tracker.ts: a priced charge goes to balances.track in dollars (aiCreditsUsd), with properties.source kept for the billing page breakdown and the token pools kept as properties. A charge with no reported cost (Workers AI) still goes through track_tokens. Idempotency keys are unchanged.

Verification

• New tests: cost summed across merged calls, unpriced calls kept apart, and a priced charge billed as cost × 1.2 on balances.track while an unpriced one stays on track_tokens.
• apps/ai chat billing and security-audit suites: 123 passed. apps/ai typecheck and effect lint config are clean.
• Still to check on the preview: whether the review_files sub-agent calls carry a reported cost. If they don't, they fall back to track_tokens, which is today's behaviour. A PR review trace on the preview will show it.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Billing
  • AI credit charges now use provider-reported costs when available, with token-based billing used when cost information is unavailable.
  • Charges with no reported cost remain separate from charges with reported costs, helping preserve accurate billing.
  • Reported costs are reflected in AI credit usage, while charges with nonpositive reported costs are not submitted for billing.
• Documentation
  • Updated billing documentation to explain provider-cost billing and the token-based fallback.

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Walkthrough

AI runs now capture provider-reported costs and carry them into usage charges. Billing uses positive reported costs for dollar-denominated requests and falls back to token-based requests when cost is absent.

Changes: Provider-reported cost billing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Capture provider-reported costs apps/ai/src/platform/reported-cost.ts, apps/ai/src/chat/run.ts, apps/ai/src/security-audit/agents.ts, apps/ai/src/chat/review/fanout.ts	A shared estimator reads cost from finish metadata. Chat, security-audit, and review fanout agent runs use it to estimate call cost.
Preserve costs in usage charges apps/ai/src/chat/usage.ts, apps/ai/src/chat/ai-credit-charges.test.ts	Usage charges include estimated provider costs. Compatible priced calls merge and sum costs; priced and unpriced calls remain separate.
Create provider-priced billing requests packages/backend/src/services/billing/autumn-tracker.ts, apps/ai/src/chat/turn-metering.test.ts	Positive provider costs create dollar-denominated requests. Missing costs use token-based requests, while present nonpositive costs create no request. The test checks credit tracking and request indexing.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant AgentRun
  participant reportedCost
  participant UsageMetering
  participant AutumnTracker
  AgentRun->>reportedCost: finish metadata
  reportedCost->>UsageMetering: estimated cost or unknown status
  UsageMetering->>AutumnTracker: usage charge with optional provider cost
  AutumnTracker->>AutumnTracker: build provider-priced or token-based request

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Possibly related PRs

• MapleTechLabs/maple#1824: Adds the aiCreditsUsd billing contract used by this change’s provider-priced requests.
• MapleTechLabs/maple#1731: Adds the earlier cost-extraction implementation that this change replaces in the security-audit agent code.

Suggested reviewers: jeremyfunk

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 16100

Delegated review sub-agent calls now use the provider-reported cost estimator like the parent chat run. Calls without a reported cost fall back to token-based billing as designed. No merge-blocking risk remains.

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The title states the main change: AI credit charges are now billed at the provider-reported cost instead of Autumn's per-model rate table. The changeset matches this. It adds the reportedCost estimator, providerCostMicrousd on charges and spend, and a balances.track path using aiCreditsUsd, with track_tokens kept as the fallback. The title is a single concise sentence, follows the conventional fix(billing) form, and avoids vague terms.

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Maple review

🟢 Confidence 8/10 · likely safe to merge. The only new code is a one-line pass-through in fanout.ts; billing correctness of the priced path is pinned by unit tests, the child wiring itself by typecheck alone.
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AI credit charges now bill OpenRouter's reported cost plus markup, falling back to track_tokens when a call reports none; the last commit extends that estimator to review_files children. The new one-line wiring in fanout.ts is sound and typechecks.

• reportedCost moved to platform/reported-cost.ts and shared by security audits and chat runs
• run.ts passes estimateCostMicrousd to the turn run; fanout.ts passes it to review_files children
• recordCharge sums providerCostMicrousd across merged calls and never merges priced with unpriced
• creditRequest bills a priced charge on balances.track in dollars, unpriced ones on track_tokens

Before merge

• Manual · Confirm on a preview PR-review trace that review_files children report a cost, rather than falling back to track_tokens

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[Makisuo]

Stacked: #2529 builds the AI credits breakdown on the billing page on top of this.

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Merged with 1 step from "Before merge" still open. If it is done, tick it on the review comment; if not, now is the time.

• Manual · Confirm on a preview PR-review trace that review_files children report a cost, rather than falling back to track_tokens

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Maple: after this shipped

✅ Shipped clean. Nothing this change touches got worse in the hour after it deployed.

Deployed to maple-chat (production) at 2026-11-12 15:42 UTC as cedf936, the first version after the merge (the merge commit itself never reported). Compared the 60 minutes before and after.

Operation	Calls/h	Errors	p95
AutumnTracker.trackAiCredits	10 → 5	0.0% → 0.0%	1141 → 314 ms

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