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# Organization IU Rate Card
> How one Effective Rate Card defines pricing, access, rollover, and activity terms across your organization's workloads
The Organization IU Rate Card is the price list your organization will use for
Intelligence Unit (IU) activity across Interchange. It applies once at the
billing-organization level: buyer activity, storefront work, Murph, and other
IU-rated capabilities draw from the same plan and wallet.
The standard IU Rate Card is published in staging for a controlled pilot and
visible only to invited organizations. It remains unpublished in production
until the pricing and governing terms are approved, so no organization needs
to accept it in production today. Invited staging organizations can review and
accept the exact effective revision. For invited organizations, Plan & Billing
may show the accepted included-IU allocation, observed usage, and a display-only
forecast. Transactional balance drawdown, entitlement enforcement, invoices,
payment collection, and renewal charging remain off. Existing accepted
media-pricing arrangements are unchanged.
## The simple model
* **Connect at no cost.** Connecting an account, discovering it, and mapping it
to an advertiser do not consume IUs.
* **Pay for IU-rated use.** When a capability has a published IU price, its
usage draws from your organization's one IU plan and wallet.
* **Commit for a volume discount.** A monthly commitment lowers the effective
price of the included IUs. Overage uses the metered rate.
* **Add a platform-license overlay when you need it.** The optional license can
cover contracted governance, integrations, support, and SLA. It sits on top
of the same IU plan; it is not another wallet or a separate usage tier.
There is no separate buyer, storefront, Murph, or BYOBA plan. BYOBA—bringing or
building your own buyer agent—is simply one way to use the platform.
## One Effective Rate Card
The Rate Card shown for acceptance is the complete commercial result for your
organization. It starts from a published standard plan and can incorporate one
authorized adjustment source:
* a corporate percentage adjustment;
* a promotion or referral code;
* a negotiated private package, such as 500 IUs for \$500; or
* an enterprise offer that combines a platform-access fee, an entitlement
bundle, and included or specially priced activities.
These are not separate terms scattered across the product. A Commercial Offer
or code distributes the terms; the resulting **Effective Rate Card** is what
you review, accept, and later see in Plan & Billing. It is versioned and
snapshotted with the binding so a later edit cannot rewrite what you accepted.
Entitlements are enforced separately from billing, but the access bundle
included in an enterprise offer appears beside its price.
## Baseline plan sizes
The current staging-only pilot is modeled with these plan sizes:
| Plan size | Monthly commitment | Included IUs | Overage |
| ------------- | -----------------: | -----------: | ------: |
| Pay as you go | \$0 | 0 | \$5/IU |
| 250 | \$1,000 | 250 | \$5/IU |
| 1,000 | \$3,000 | 1,000 | \$5/IU |
Pay as you go provides no included monthly IU allocation. Once production
billing is enabled, commitments will be billed at the start of each monthly
period; metered usage and committed-plan overage will be billed after the
period.
These figures and the IU denomination are not final. They are available only
when an effective Rate Card is published in your environment and shown to your
organization; they are not a production offer today. Your confirmation always
shows the exact version, term, list price, and effective price that would bind
you in that environment.
## Pricing adjustments and private offers
If Scope3 has authorized a corporate discount for your organization, it applies
once across the plan—not separately to buyer and storefront activity. Before
you confirm, Plan & Billing shows the list price, discount, and effective price.
Discounts do not stack.
A negotiated package is shown as its own private Effective Rate Card, not as a
second hidden discount. For example, an offer for 500 IUs at \$500 shows that
commitment, included quantity, and overage price directly. Enterprise offers
can also show a monthly platform-access fee, the included access bundle, and
activities that are included rather than IU-rated. Only one complete offer is
effective for acceptance at a time.
A later discount or Rate Card change never rewrites an accepted term. Changes
apply through a new offer or successor term that you can review.
## Rollover
On a committed plan, unused included IUs can carry into the next monthly period
up to 50% of that next period's included quantity:
* the 250 plan can carry at most 125 IUs; and
* the 1,000 plan can carry at most 500 IUs.
Carried IUs expire after that one successor period and cannot accumulate again.
Pay as you go provides no monthly allocation to roll over. Setup and
promotional credits never roll over.
## Buyer social-account activity
Connecting and mapping a social account cost nothing. The current
coarse-denomination planning value for explicitly activating a connected social
account is **4 IUs per account-month**. The denomination and final IU count will
be set before production publication. The account-month includes:
* mirror, read, and write access;
* routine synchronization; and
* up to 13 months of account history.
This is an activity price, not a buyer plan. Under the current pilot rendering,
five activated accounts would attribute 20 IUs for the month to buyer social
activity while still using the organization's shared plan and wallet.
The activated-social-account meter remains in non-billing measurement. The
current 4-IU planning value does not debit your wallet or appear as an invoice
charge. Before charging can begin, Scope3 must finalize the denomination and
activity count, publish the Rate Card in production, separately enable the
billing systems, and your organization must accept the exact effective
version.
## Activities under calibration
Plan & Billing can also show the current starting hypotheses below. These rows
are deliberately separate from the **Published price list**: they are not part
of an accepted Rate Card, cannot debit your IU balance, and may change before a
successor Rate Card is published.
| Activity | Starting rate | Included boundary |
| --------------------------------- | -----------------------: | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Enhanced social account | 4 IUs/account-month | Routine synchronization and up to 13 months of initial history |
| Proposal Evaluation Pass | 1 IU | One completed managed disposition and enrichment pass over up to 10 candidates |
| Comparative Proposal Ranking Pass | 1 IU | One completed comparative ranking pass over up to 100 accepted candidates |
| Merchandising brief response | 1 IU | One usable dynamic response; Chef composition is included |
| Murph working session | 1 IU/5 sessions | Up to 10 assistant turns in each session |
| Image generation | 1 IU/5 images | Standard generated images, including internal variants and evaluation |
| Video generation | 1 IU/3 generated seconds | Quality and provider bands remain under calibration |
| Analyze account | 1 IU | One completed durable account analysis |
| Campaign optimization | 3 IUs/campaign-month | Standard monitoring, optimizer runs, proposals, and customer-operated approval |
| Media-buy execution | 1 IU/buy-month | Scope3-operated buys; third-party sales-agent pass-through is excluded |
| Standard document understanding | 0.1 IU/file | Within the published text and page limits |
| Large document understanding | 1 IU/job | One large or complex processing job |
| Audio/video understanding | 1 IU/30 minutes | Only analyzed or transcribed duration; upload alone is free |
| Custom BigQuery analysis | 1 IU/100 GiB billed | Started blocks after any allowance; cached results are free |
| Modular source management | Measuring cost | Automated routing and customer approvals are included; Scope3 human fulfillment is separate managed service |
Documents, audio, and video appear together as content understanding, but they
do not use one megabyte meter. Document pages/complexity and media duration are
better cost and value boundaries than compressed file size. BigQuery is the
exception because bytes billed directly drive the warehouse cost.
Customer approval actions, retries, routing, caching, and internal model calls
never create additional charges. Scope3-operated human work requires an
explicit managed-service or statement-of-work price rather than an invisible
per-approval IU charge.
## New-storefront setup credit
When an effective Rate Card makes the offer available, a genuinely new seller
billing account that completes storefront signup can receive one 100-IU setup
credit. The credit is valid for 60 days from signup and is a restricted lot
inside the organization's shared wallet: it can be used only for eligible
storefront setup work. Storefront provisioning may complete asynchronously
without moving that expiry window, and later storefronts do not create
additional setup credits.
It cannot pay for buyer social-account activity, general Murph use, or another
workload. It does not roll over, has no cash value, and does not stack. A valid
promotion or referral code can attribute the same setup credit and may carry an
authorized pricing or access adjustment. It cannot add a second setup credit or
change the setup program's value or expiration. The preview is recomputed after
the code is entered, and the adjusted Effective Rate Card—not the code itself—is
the accepted record.
The setup-credit offer is available only within the controlled staging pilot;
it is not currently available in production and does not create billable usage.
## Acceptance and renewal
When an effective Rate Card is available, **Settings → Plan & Billing** shows:
* the exact Rate Card version and effective date;
* every eligible plan size;
* your complete Effective Rate Card, including any corporate adjustment,
promotion, referral, private package, platform fee, or included access;
* included IUs, rollover, overage, billing timing, and term; and
* the governing agreement and renewal posture.
After acceptance, invited staging organizations may also see the exact included
allocation, remaining balance, overage rate, rollover policy, observed usage,
and projected month-end usage on **Usage & credits**. These staging figures do
not create charges or enforce entitlements.
Only a verified organization administrator can accept a plan. An agent, API
credential, service account, or impersonated support session cannot make that
financial commitment. If the offer changes while you are reviewing it, the
confirmation reloads and asks you to review the new version.
Signup may present the current Terms of Service and IU Rate Card in one flow,
but the acceptances remain distinct: the record preserves the exact agreement,
Rate Card version, selected plan, complete adjustments, prices, actor, and time.
An existing organization without a binding will receive the same **Choose an
IU plan** action after a Rate Card becomes effective. Interchange never silently
accepts a paid plan on its behalf.
The plan task also lets an administrator **Continue without a paid plan** or
**Decide later**. Continuing without a plan dismisses automatic login prompts
for only the exact Rate Card revision reviewed; a successor revision may be
shown again. Deciding later allows Interchange to show the task on the next
login. In either case, **Settings → Plan & Billing** keeps the manual **Choose an
IU plan** action available while the offer remains current, so you can return
without waiting for another prompt.
One acceptance binds the billing organization. If you accepted from a
storefront task, the buyer view shows the same plan; if you accepted from a
buyer task, the storefront view does too.
Standard plans and private offers marked **pin exact** renew through immutable
monthly terms at the accepted price. An offer marked **review required** stops
before automatic renewal and requires a new explicit commercial decision. A
later Rate Card or adjustment never silently reprices the current term. Ending
the IU plan at term is an organization-wide decision: it prevents the next
shared plan term from starting, rather than ending only one buyer or storefront
capability. Individual capabilities are enabled or disabled separately.
## Billing cycle and fee invoices
Once charging is enabled for your organization (it is switched on per
organization, never silently — accepting a plan does not itself start
charging), your IU plan bills on the **calendar month**:
* **Commitment at cycle start.** The plan's monthly commitment is charged at
the start of each calendar month, at the price fixed in your accepted
binding.
* **Overage during the cycle.** Usage beyond your included and rolled-over
IUs accrues as overage at your plan's per-IU rate. For organizations paying
by card, accrued overage is charged automatically once it crosses a
threshold, so month-end never brings one large surprise; any remainder
settles when the cycle closes.
* **A fee invoice at cycle close.** Every charged month produces a numbered
fee invoice — plan commitment, overage (IUs × rate), and payments applied —
on **Settings → Plan & Billing → Payment & invoices**. Invoice numbers are
sequential with no gaps, and an issued invoice's charges never change;
payments are appended as they settle.
Organizations paying by card are charged automatically against the saved
card. Invoiced organizations receive the fee invoice only and pay on their
existing terms — no card charge is made.
If a card charge fails, the standard payment recovery ladder applies: retries
on a published schedule, email notices, and a self-serve **pay now** action on
Plan & Billing that clears everything instantly once it succeeds. While a
failure is unresolved — or if accrued, uncollected overage reaches your
account's cap — new paid platform activity is held; viewing, reporting,
exporting, and fixing your payment method are never blocked.
## For agents and API clients
`GET /api/v2/billing/iu-rate-card` is the canonical organization offer read.
`GET /api/v2/billing/fee-invoices` lists the organization's fee invoices, and
`GET /api/v2/billing/fee-invoices/{invoiceNumber}` returns one invoice with
its line items.
Agents should use the typed `get_iu_rate_card_offer` tool to open the same
portable plan-selection task rather than reconstructing it from a generic API
call.
Acceptance and renewal changes are direct human commitments. The task invokes
app-only operations to append the displayed, declined, deferred, or accepted
outcome and to schedule or reinstate renewal. Every response is idempotent and
tied to the exact Rate Card revision; an accepted outcome links to the immutable
binding. These commit operations are not model-visible. The older
`storefront-rate-card` REST paths and storefront-named tools remain deprecated
compatibility aliases; new clients should use the organization IU names.
## Separate from media pricing
IUs price platform activity. Existing media-pricing arrangements cover media
spend and their accepted contract fee terms. This Organization IU Rate Card
does not replace, amend, or silently remove those terms. Plan & Billing can show
both because an organization may owe both platform/IU charges and media charges,
but each is a separate commercial stream.
## Related
Where organization administrators review commercial terms
Payouts, settlement, and the storefront view of the shared plan