Meter Documentation

Introduction

Meter is the first consumer AI product with postpaid billing. No subscription. No credits. Use first, pay after. The meter runs up in dollars like a taxi.

Every model available — Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek. One bill. No complexity.

How It Works

  1. Sign up with your email
  2. Add a card — no charge, just a verification hold
  3. Start chatting — every model is available
  4. Each response shows: Model · $Cost · Confidence%
  5. Your card is charged at $10 or monthly, whichever comes first

Pay Per Use

Every message has a cost based on the model used and tokens consumed. Below each response you see:

Sonnet 4·$0.03·82%·settled

Model name. Cost in dollars. AI confidence score. Settlement status.

Pricing

Pay-per-token at provider base rates (no markup by default). Most messages cost between $0.01 and $0.25.

ModelInput / 1MOutput / 1M~Per Msg
Claude Sonnet 4.6$6.00$30.00~$0.02
Claude Opus 4.6$10.00$50.00~$0.03
GPT-5.4$5.00$30.00~$0.02
MiniMax M2.5$0.60$2.40~$0.001
Gemini 3.1 Pro$4.00$24.00~$0.01
Grok 4.1 Fast$0.40$1.00~$0.001
DeepSeek V3$0.54$2.20~$0.001
Meter 1.0 (Debate)$13.90$79.00~$1.00

The daily meter in the header shows your running total. Set a daily spending cap in settings.

Billing

Your card is charged when your balance reaches $10, or at the end of each month — whichever comes first. Stripe handles all payments securely.

Most founders spend $20-40/month — less than a single AI subscription, with every model included.

Models

Every frontier model available through one interface. Quality measured by GPQA Diamond (graduate-level science accuracy). Speed is output tokens per second from native APIs.

ModelProviderGPQASpeed
Claude Sonnet 4.6Anthropic74%60 tok/s
Claude Opus 4.6Anthropic91%70 tok/s
GPT-5.4OpenAI92%90 tok/s
MiniMax M2.5MiniMax62%50 tok/s
Gemini 3.1 ProGoogle92%138 tok/s
Grok 4.1 FastxAI86%129 tok/s
DeepSeek V3DeepSeek59%50 tok/s
Meter 1.0 (Debate)Meter93%30 tok/s

Meter 1.0 runs Opus + GPT-5.4 + Grok in a multi-model debate, then synthesizes the best answer. Slower but highest quality.

API Reference

POST /api/v1/chat

Streaming chat endpoint. Returns SSE events.

POST /api/v1/chat
Authorization: Bearer mk_your_api_key
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
  "model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6"
}

// Response: SSE stream
data: {"type":"delta","content":"Hi","tokensOut":1}
data: {"type":"usage","tokensIn":5,"tokensOut":50,"confidence":85}
data: {"type":"done"}