What zero markup means mechanically
No markup coefficient exists at any tier, at any value — including 1.0. There is no field to set, no default to carry, and no floor to enforce. Billing mode is one of exactly two values:itemized_passthrough or byok.
The consequence for routing: Tied’s revenue is identical whether a resolution runs on a frontier model or a cheap one, because the orchestration fee is set by the resolution’s class and the token cost is passed through unchanged. Model selection has no effect on what Tied earns.
Tied publishes its model recommendations alongside the benchmarks behind them, so which model ran and why is always visible.
Bring your own keys
You may supply your own provider keys — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral and others — at any tier, not just Enterprise.1
You pay the provider directly
On your own provider account, your own enterprise agreement, your own negotiated rates.
2
Tied never touches that money
It does not pass through our billing system, our balance sheet, or our invoice. It was never ours to
bill and never ours to waive.
3
Your Tied invoice reduces to one number
The orchestration fee alone.
Bringing your own key is choosing your own model, which is why BYOK is available on every plan
while pinning a model from the Tied-hosted menu is an Advanced capability. See
Plans.
How tokens are priced on Tied-supplied keys
If you use Tied-supplied keys, we need a per-token price at the moment of each resolution — before the provider’s monthly invoice exists.
1
An effective-dated price table
Tied maintains its own price table for every model we route to. Each entry records the provider’s
published rate and the date range it applies to. Resolutions are priced against the entry in effect at
the time they ran — so a mid-month provider price change does not retroactively rewrite your earlier
resolutions.
2
Monthly reconciliation against the real invoice
At month end we reconcile that table against the provider’s actual invoice.
3
The difference is allocated back, pro-rata by tokens
Any difference — in either direction — is allocated to customers in proportion to tokens consumed, and
appears as an explicit reconciliation line on your invoice.
The passthrough is not a promise about our intentions. It is an arithmetic identity that closes out
monthly, in public, on your bill.
What appears on the receipt
Every resolution’s receipt itemizes the LLM cost by model, token count, provider rate and total — separately from the orchestration fee, never blended into it. A resolution that did not bill can still show an LLM cost. The two numbers are independent: the orchestration fee is what Tied charges for resolving something, and it is zero when nothing was resolved. The token cost is what the provider charged for tokens that were genuinely consumed. Zeroing out a real provider charge would make the receipt easier to read and less true.Model choice by plan
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How pricing works
The two-number model and the credit peg.
Resolution pricing
The seven classes and what each costs.