Is unlimited really unlimited?

Commercially yes for that seat’s Cue Cloud usage: flat $1,500/mo, no usage-based token bill. The offer is one user per seat — not a shared org key for the whole company.

What about CI bots or shared automation?

Give automation its own seat (or keep it off a human seat). The product is priced per user so agent volume stays predictable.

Can I share one cue_… across the team?

Don’t. Each engineer gets a key on their seat. Shared secrets recreate mystery spend culture and break accountability.

How are the OpenAI / Anthropic numbers calculated?

List prices: Anthropic Opus 4.8 at $5/$25 per MTok and OpenAI GPT-5.5 at $5/$30. We blend 70% input / 30% output → $11/MTok (Anthropic) and $12.5/MTok (OpenAI), then × assumed monthly tokens. Not invoices — same math in every card, and Cue stays under both.

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Pricing

Truly unlimited coding tokens for a flat $1,500/mo per user. Predictable OpEx vs unbounded OpenAI and Anthropic API spend on agent loops.

Flat seat pricing

$1,500/ seat / mounlimited tokens

One user. One flat number. Tokens for that user on Cue Cloud are unlimited — not an OpenAI or Anthropic usage bill that scales with agent loops.

seat map

seat: [email protected]
plan: $1,500/mo · unlimited tokens
key:  cue_… (shown once)

Truly unlimited: what that means

OpenAI and Anthropic APIs charge for tokens. Cue Cloud charges for the seat. Once that seat is paid, coding tokens for that user do not show up as a second line on the bill.

No per-token line item on the invoice
No overage surprise when an agent runs long
Multi-step IDE loops are the normal case, not a bill spike
One human ↔ one seat ↔ one flat monthly number

vs OpenAI and Anthropic

Published list prices: Anthropic · Opus 4.8 at $5/$25 per MTok · OpenAI · GPT-5.5 at $5/$30 per MTok. Cue stays $1,500 flat.

Dimension	Cue Cloud	Anthropic	OpenAI
Price shape	$1,500 / seat / mo flat	$5 / MTok in · $25 / MTok out	$5 / MTok in · $30 / MTok out
Token bill	Unlimited for that user	Scales with every turn	Scales with every turn
Agent loops	Same flat seat	Cost grows with tools + context	Cost grows with tools + context
Forecast	Fixed OpEx per engineer	Unbounded unless you cap	Unbounded unless you cap
Weights	Open Hub models we deploy	Anthropic closed weights	OpenAI closed weights
Identity	cue_… key per seat	Org / workspace keys	Org / project keys

Calculated monthly spend (one user)

Same engineer, three intensity levels. 70/30 input/output blend → $11/MTok Anthropic, $12.5/MTok OpenAI. Cue is always $1,500. Break-even ~136M tokens/mo — every card below is higher, so OpenAI and Anthropic stay pricier.

Agent-heavy

Long sessions, big repos, lots of tool turns.

250Mtokens / mo

Cue Cloud$1,500

Anthropic$2,750

OpenAI$3,125

$1,250 savings vs Anthropic
$1,625 savings vs OpenAI

Power agent seat

Multi-hour agents, fat context, heavy retries.

500Mtokens / mo

Cue Cloud$1,500

Anthropic$5,500

OpenAI$6,250

$4,000 savings vs Anthropic
$4,750 savings vs OpenAI

Billion-token seat

Org-scale agent loops on one engineer.

1Btokens / mo

Cue Cloud$1,500

Anthropic$11,000

OpenAI$12,500

$9,500 savings vs Anthropic
$11,000 savings vs OpenAI

Calculated from published OpenAI and Anthropic list prices with a fixed blend — not a guarantee of any one invoice (caching, batch, and harness overhead move real bills). The point holds: usage-based spend climbs; Cue does not.

Why coding agents punish OpenAI and Anthropic bills

IDE agents re-read repos, call tools, retry, and hold long context. Every turn is more tokens, so OpenAI and Anthropic OpEx grows without a ceiling. On Cue Cloud it is still $1,500 for that user.

Past ~136M blended tokens/mo on Anthropic (sooner on OpenAI at $12.5/MTok), the flat seat wins on dollars alone, plus open weights on hardware we operate. See models and api.

Seat anatomy

One human

A seat is a person. Tokens for that user on Cue Cloud are unlimited under the flat plan.

One cue_… key

Minted for the seat, shown once, hashed at the gateway. Use it in CueCode, Cursor, Claude Code, or scripts.

Team math you can explain

N engineers × $1,500 = fixed monthly OpEx. No OpenAI/Anthropic “who burned the org key” postmortem. Leads buy seats; engineers get credentials; revoke without rotating the company.

5 seats$7,500/mo

20 seats$30,000/mo

50 seats$75,000/mo

Console for humans

The Cue Cloud console manages seats and keys once access is live. Billing is the flat seat — not a token counter pretending to be a product.

FAQ

Is unlimited really unlimited?: Commercially yes for that seat’s Cue Cloud usage: flat $1,500/mo, no usage-based token bill. The offer is one user per seat — not a shared org key for the whole company.
What about CI bots or shared automation?: Give automation its own seat (or keep it off a human seat). The product is priced per user so agent volume stays predictable.
Can I share one cue_… across the team?: Don’t. Each engineer gets a key on their seat. Shared secrets recreate mystery spend culture and break accountability.
How are the OpenAI / Anthropic numbers calculated?: List prices: Anthropic Opus 4.8 at $5/$25 per MTok and OpenAI GPT-5.5 at $5/$30. We blend 70% input / 30% output → $11/MTok (Anthropic) and $12.5/MTok (OpenAI), then × assumed monthly tokens. Not invoices — same math in every card, and Cue stays under both.

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