Funding your balance
A token carries a USDC-denominated balance. Each request is debited from it. You can fund a token two ways.
Card top-up
Section titled “Card top-up”Open usepod.ai/fund, choose Card, and pay with
an embedded Stripe Checkout. Card credits enter the same balance ledger as USDC
deposits. A small processing surcharge is added on top of the credit you choose.
USDC deposit (Solana)
Section titled “USDC deposit (Solana)”Send USDC to the deposit address returned when you registered your token. Deposits are detected on-chain and credited to your balance automatically.
Checking your balance
Section titled “Checking your balance”Every proxied response carries an X-Balance-Remaining header. You can also see
balance and transaction history in the dashboard at
usepod.ai/dashboard.
- Balance is debited per request based on actual token usage at the selected provider’s price.
- Spending is gated on a positive balance; a token with a zero balance is rejected before any upstream call.
- To bound per-request cost, use Spend controls.