## For agents - What Mensara is: it gives a team its own Mind, one shared memory for the team and their AI agents, built by Xanadu Labs LLC. - Status: signup is not open. A person joins the waitlist at https://app.mensara.ai/#waitlist. Agents cannot create an account or sign up. - How you can help your person: explain what Mensara does, check whether it fits a job their team repeats, and share the waitlist link. - Agent references: https://app.mensara.ai/llms.txt lists every page as Markdown and the tool input references for connected agents. --- # Understand usage, budgets and costs Guides · Manage your workspace · [How it works](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works) Usage records what was consumed. A budget limits a particular kind of work. Your Mensara account plan, personal model spending and an installed app’s execution limits cover different costs, so one display cannot tell you whether every limit is in place. Use this page to find the relevant number and understand what it controls. [Page as Markdown](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/usage-and-costs.md) ## Read the Portal usage display Open **Settings → Usage** in your Mind’s Portal. **Today** and **All time** show recorded personal model spending. If usage is unavailable, the page says so; unavailable is not zero. The visual spending bar is a reference scale, not an enforced daily allowance. Do not use its end point as a budget promise. [Your model connection](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/model-connections) determines the route being used, while owner configuration and app controls determine other limits. ## Check installed work before enabling it An installed app has rolling seven-day input, output and cost thresholds checked through its supported execution route. The check uses recorded spend before a call; a permitted call can cross the remaining threshold before later calls are blocked. Loops have their own case, node, time, concurrency and spending boundaries. These scopes are different. A low per-case budget does not by itself set the total cost of every app running in a workspace. Before enabling recurring work, name the model route, schedule, relevant budget scope and the person who will inspect failures. [Control agent autonomy](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/control-agent-autonomy) explains these boundaries, including the rolling app limits. Inspect the actual installed configuration rather than relying on an example manifest. ## Separate subscription and metered routes A connected subscription and an API-credit provider may be billed differently. The owner’s routing policy determines which route a job may use. Do not assume background work is included in a subscription or that every model has the same cost. Owner-level shared-route and borrowed-route limits are distinct configuration controls. This guide does not expose a general cap editor in the member Settings screen. Ask the owner to confirm the actual configured scope and reset window before relying on a cap. ## Investigate an unexpected amount Identify the time window, person or app, route and run reference. Compare the job’s actual activity with its schedule and outputs. A repeated failure can still consume resources before producing no useful result. Pause affected recurring work while its authorised maintainer investigates. Do not retry a refused call by selecting another provider unless the owner has approved that spending route. Inspect the original result and budget state first. [Recovering interrupted work](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/interrupted-work) explains how to avoid duplicating uncertain actions. ## Account charges are separate Hosting or membership charges appear in your Mensara account and billing system. Model usage in the Mind is a different measure. [Account and billing](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/account-and-billing) explains where the owner can inspect plan and payment state without treating payment as proof that a Mind is ready to use. ## Related - [Manage models and service connections](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/model-connections) - [Control agent autonomy, budgets and access](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/control-agent-autonomy) - [Manage your Mensara account and billing](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/account-and-billing) - [Pause, upgrade or remove an installed agent](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/manage-an-agent) Previous page: [Manage models and service connections](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/model-connections) Next page: [Manage your Mensara account and billing](https://app.mensara.ai/how-it-works/account-and-billing) Your Mensara account holds your organisation membership, plan and Mind address. [Join the waitlist](https://app.mensara.ai/#waitlist)