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Effective May 2026 · all amounts in USD

Pricing that tracks the value you get. A share of the spend Tarmac governs — and a share of the savings it produces.

Tarmac's pricing follows the work it does for you. Nothing else: no per-seat fees, no per-agent fees, no setup fees, and never a markup on compute — Tarmac is the control layer, not a reseller.

// 01 · The model

Two components. One simple bill.

A flat governance fee that scales with the AI compute spend Tarmac protects, and a small performance fee on the savings Tarmac actually delivers. Both metered live in the product; both reconciled to a receipt.

// Component 01 · Governance fee
3%
// Of governed AI compute spend · charged annually

A proportion of the spend Tarmac protects.

Never a flat platform tax. The same rate from your first agent to your thousandth — no tier cliffs.

$12,000 annual minimum
// Component 02 · Performance fee
1%
// Of realized savings · reconciled quarterly in arrears

Tarmac earns more only when it has saved you more.

Our incentives point the same direction as yours. If a quarter delivers nothing, no performance fee.

Billed only on savings delivered
// Annual price = max($12,000, 3% × governed spend) + 1% × realized savings
Governance fee. Billed annually. · Performance fee. Reconciled and billed quarterly in arrears. · Compute. Runs in your own provider accounts — Tarmac never resells it.
// 02 · How it works

What we measure — and how you can see it.

Both meters surface live in the product, so there's nothing to estimate, audit, or manually report. Every dollar Tarmac bills you traces back to a receipt in the Financial Console.

// Meter 01

Governed spend

Every dollar of inference and GPU compute that runs through Tarmac's enforcement layer. Metered automatically — no estimates, no manual reporting, no separate provider invoices to reconcile.

// Where you see it Agent Operations Dashboard · live counter, by agent, lane, and cost center. The same number Tarmac bills against — visible to you before any invoice arrives.
// Meter 02

Realized savings

For every run, the gap between what the task would have cost at the heaviest model in the lane, and what it actually cost under Tarmac's budget-aware selection. Summed across your fleet.

// Where you see it Financial Console · savings line on every receipt, period statement, and rollup. Every dollar auditable; every dollar reconcilable to a single run.
// 03 · Worked examples

Three fleets, worked through. All-in cost lands close to 3% of the spend Tarmac governs.

Performance-fee figures assume Tarmac realizes savings of roughly 20% of governed spend — shown for illustration only. Your actual savings depend on your fleet, and you are only ever billed 1% of what Tarmac genuinely delivers and reports.

Customer profile
Governed spend / yr
Governance fee
Performance fee
Annual total
AI-native team
small fleet, getting started
$400K
$400,000 / year
$12,000
at the minimum
$800
on ~$80K saved
$12,800
3.2% of governed spend
Scaling fleet
mid-market, expanding
$2M
$2,000,000 / year
$60,000
3% of spend
$4,000
on ~$400K saved
$64,000
3.2% of governed spend
Enterprise fleet
large, multi-team
$10M
$10,000,000 / year
$300,000
3% of spend
$20,000
on ~$2M saved
$320,000
3.2% of governed spend
Performance fee is illustrative. The 20% savings rate is what design partners typically see in the first quarter of governance — your actual rate depends on fleet shape and how aggressively you set priority tiers. Tarmac bills 1% of realized savings, full stop.
// 04 · Estimator

Your fleet, your numbers. Move the sliders.

Estimator only — your actual contract is 3% of governed spend (or the $12K minimum, whichever is greater) plus 1% of the savings Tarmac actually realizes for you.

// Your inputs

Tell us about the fleet you want governed.

The governance fee is fixed at 3% of governed spend, with a $12,000 annual minimum. The performance fee is 1% of realized savings — set the second slider to model what a savings rate would do.

Governed AI compute spend $2M/ year
$100K$1M$5M$10M$20M+
Assumed savings rate 20%of governed spend
0%10%20% · typical30%40%
Contract term 1 year
1 year2 years3 years
Above the minimum · 3% of governed
Governance fee
$60,000/ yr
Performance fee
$4,000/ yr
Realized savings
$400,000/ yr est.
Effective rate
3.20% of spend
Annual total $64,000/ yr
Net of savings, Tarmac saves you $336,000 — realized savings exceed the fee by 6.25×.
// 05 · What's included

Every customer gets the whole platform. No tiers. No upsell on the things you need to run agents safely.

There's one Tarmac — the same one whether your governed spend is $400K or $40M. The fee scales; the product doesn't change shape.

// In every agreement

What you get.

  • Pre-spend enforcement — hard per-run, monthly and yearly caps, held before money is spent
  • Priority-aware fleet rebalancing under budget pressure
  • The Agent Operations Dashboard — live fleet control for engineering
  • The Financial Console — reconciled books, statements and exports for finance
  • Savings reporting, traceable to every receipt
  • Onboarding and support — unlimited users and agents
  • SOC 2 Type II report and trust center access
  • The Compute Price Signal across every supported provider
// What you won't be charged for

What you don't.

  • No per-seat or per-user fees
  • No markup on compute — Tarmac never resells it
  • No setup or onboarding fee
  • No charge for dashboards, exports or API access
  • No tier cliffs — the same model from your first agent to your thousandth
  • No charge for held-but-unsettled runs or over-cap holds that never executed
  • No percentage of cloud bill or provider invoice
  • No premium for the security review or DPA
// 06 · Why this model

Pricing should point us in the same direction. This one does.

// 01 · Fairness

A proportion, not a tax.

The governance fee scales with the spend Tarmac protects — so it stays fair whether you run one agent or a thousand. No platform fee that doesn't budge until you upgrade. No tier cliffs that punish growth.

// 02 · Alignment

We earn more only if you save more.

The 1% performance fee means Tarmac's incentives point in the same direction as yours. If a quarter delivers nothing, no performance fee — you only ever pay 1% of what Tarmac genuinely delivers and reports.

// 03 · No resale

Your rates, your discounts, your data.

Compute always runs in your own provider accounts. Your negotiated rates, your committed-spend discounts and your residency choices all stay with you. Tarmac is the control layer — never a reseller, never in the supply chain.

// 07 · Pricing FAQ
// Get a tailored quote

The estimator is directional.
The real quote takes 20 minutes.

Tell us your governed spend, your fleet shape, and the providers you're on. We'll come back the same day with a working-session calendar invite and a redline-ready MSA.

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// Pricing in one line

3% of what we govern, plus 1% of what we save. $12K minimum. That's it.

  • No tier cliffs · same model from agent 1 to 1,000
  • No per-seat fees · unlimited users included
  • No markup on compute · Tarmac never resells
  • Governance fee · billed annually
  • Performance fee · billed quarterly in arrears