The ledger of the agentic internet is our goal. Keeping it honest is our mission. That mission — on day one and every day after — we do for free.
The agentic internet is coming fast. Agents will call agents. MCPs will call MCPs. Tokens will flow across thousands of service boundaries, and nobody will have a clear picture of who used what, who owes whom, or whether the numbers add up.
Tally's first job — before routing, before intelligence, before any of the paid features — is to be the ledger. Immutable. Transparent. Yours. That is the foundation everything else is built on, and it is free because a ledger that isn't free isn't a ledger. It's a product. We are not a product.
Every token you spend, every model you call, every MCP you invoke — collected, stored, and returned to you with full fidelity. No sampling. No limits. No expiry date.
This data is yours. Always has been. Always will be. We never sell it, aggregate it away from you, or use it to train models without explicit consent. You use your data however you want.
Running an MCP server? You deserve to know who is calling it, how often, and what it's costing them. That visibility is free.
Using someone else's MCP? You deserve to know exactly how many tokens you're burning through their service and what you'd owe them if they charged. That too is free.
As agents start calling agents, the call graph gets complex fast. Tally records the full chain — which agent invoked which MCP, which model was used, how many tokens flowed, where the cost landed. The ledger is the agentic internet's receipt. And receipts should be free.
Keeping the ledger free has real costs. If Tally has saved you money or made your life easier and you feel so inclined — reach out. Tally counts tokens all day. She appreciates every contribution to the hoard.
This is where Tally earns her keep. You have the data. You could analyse it yourself. You could write routing rules. You could build a bandit algorithm. You could. But why?
The routing intelligence service takes your entire call history — across conversations, across sessions, across orgs — and tells you the right model for each call shape. Not rules. Not guesses. Empirical routing, continuously improving from your real telemetry and crowd-sourced signal from the whole Tally network.
Built an MCP server? Want to charge for it? Tally can handle that. Turn on the monetisation layer and your consumers buy Platform Credits — prepaid service units — in fixed packages. Every invocation redeems credits deterministically against their balance. When they're out, service pauses cleanly. No debt. No awkward conversations.
You set the credit burn rate for your service. You embed your margin inside it. Tally runs the ledger. You keep the revenue.
Don't want to think about payments at all? We get it. Turn on managed billing and Tally handles the entire lifecycle — consumer onboarding, credit purchases, auto-replenish top-ups, balance enforcement, self-serve consumer portal, receipts. You focus on your core work. We focus on the money.
No invoicing. No arrears. No accounts receivable. No chasing. Tally never extends credit. Your consumers always prepay. You never carry the financial risk of a consumer who can't pay.
These are not preferences. They are hard architectural constraints. They protect you and they protect us.
When credits hit zero, invocations are rejected. Your service pauses. No debt is created. No bill arrives later.
We will never send you an invoice for services already consumed. All usage is prepaid. There is no arrears mode.
Your credit balance is visible at all times. You know exactly how much runway you have. Nothing happens behind your back.
Balances are derived from the ledger. No one can type a number into a database field. The ledger is the only truth.
Credits are the economic layer only. A billing service outage cannot cause your invocations to fail. The two are architecturally separate.
The free tier gives you everything in the ledger, full telemetry, and full MCP usage visibility. The caps exist to prevent unlimited bandwidth exposure — not to push you to paid features.
Traditional SaaS invoicing creates risk on both sides. The prepaid credit model eliminates it.
There isn't much to say here. That's the point. We have two billable things and both of them are genuinely, embarrassingly simple. There are no tiers to decode, no overage clauses to hunt for, no magic discounts that require a sales call.
If you'd like to understand why we made it this way — read our business model. It explains the thinking behind every number on this page.
Every time Tally recommends which model to use for a call, that's a recommendation. One cent each. Any volume. No tiers.
| Volume per month | Per recommendation |
|---|---|
| Any volume | $0.01 |
If you use Tally to charge consumers for your MCP, we take a cut of what they pay. You keep the rest. Managed billing included — no extra charge.
You could write a routing algorithm. You could build a telemetry pipeline. You could wire up Stripe and build a metering system. All of it is possible. None of it is your core work.
The agentic internet is going to need infrastructure. Not products. Not platforms that lock you in and extract rent. Infrastructure — shared, open, improving continuously because everyone who uses it contributes to making it better.
That is what Tally is. We build it once. We improve it together. We cooperate as we welcome the agentic web — because a web where every participant builds their own metering, their own ledger, their own routing is a web full of waste, inconsistency, and mistrust.
Let's not do that.
Agents will call agents. MCPs will call MCPs. The call graphs will be deep and the token flows will be vast. Someone needs to keep the honest record of all of it.
That someone is Tally. And the ledger — always — is free.