KIFF Cloud · priced on the work your agents run

Ship agents on the flows that move money.Pay for the work they run.

Put your agents on the production flows you've held them back from — refunds, payouts, collections — with KIFF Cloud as the boundary that runs in the path. The framework is free and the domains you build are yours; Cloud is the managed runtime you pay for, by the governed operations your agents actually run. Start Cloud monthly; commit only after usage has a measurable floor.

The unit is a governed operation — one authenticated action proposal KIFF evaluates against current state and your domain contract and records with an outcome. You are not billed per domain, action, agent, integration, control, or seat. Build and connect as many as you like; you pay as your agents put them to work.

framework · free forever
$0
MIT-licensed. Build, test, compose, and self-host operational domains. No Cloud account required, no crippled trial.
then, when you want it run for you
KIFF Cloud
hosted runtime ↓
cloud · operated for you
consumption
Hosted state and decisions, tenant isolation, approvals, receipts, retention, and audit export — billed by governed operations, not objects.

Developer to Enterprise.One consumption path.

Launch prices and allowances are deliberately simple — and explicitly provisional — while the first production tenants prove the unit economics. The bill tracks governed operations, never the number of domains, actions, agents, or seats.

developer
Cloud Developer
$0
free · no card
Reach your first governed operation on Cloud in a non-production posture.
included operations
1,000
per month · non-production
  • 1,000 governed operations / month
  • Domains, actions, agents, integrations, and dev environments — unmetered
  • Observe a guard runtime and draft a domain from real traffic
  • Short evidence retention
  • No production posture
scale
Cloud Scale
from $12k
per year · committed
Commit only after representative production usage establishes a baseline worth discounting.
commitment
annual
quoted on your baseline
  • Discounted governed-operation rate, fixed for 12 months
  • One pooled balance across domains, agents, teams, and environments
  • Overage instead of shutdown — no billing outage on a production path
  • Up to 10% unused value rolls into a same-or-larger renewal
  • Longer retention and private domain distribution
enterprise
Enterprise
from $50k
per year · negotiated
Dedicated posture, organization controls, and support for regulated production.
commitment
custom
negotiated volume
  • Dedicated or customer-controlled deployment, private networking
  • SSO, SCIM, organization policy, separation of duties
  • Availability and latency commitments, incident response
  • Customer-managed retention and compliance export
  • Same pooled-commitment principle as Scale

Launch status. $199/month, the 50,000-operation allowance, and the annual floors are launch hypotheses, to be reviewed after the first five production tenants or ninety days of usage. Cloud Growth is in private beta: its monthly cap is disclosed and raised by hand before your traffic reaches it, and automatic metered overage does not bill yet — it ships only once usage telemetry, budgets, alerts, and a paid-plan grace path are live.

One governed operation.Exactly this.

A governed operation is one unique, authenticated action proposal that KIFF evaluates against the entity's current state and your active domain contract, and records with a terminal outcome. allowed, blocked, and approval_required all count — KIFF did the production work in each case.

What never counts: unauthenticated requests, malformed proposals rejected before evaluation, infrastructure failures where KIFF returns no decision, retries resolved from the same idempotency key, and reads — receipt views, dashboard, and domain authoring. A transport that retries ten times is still one billable operation.

The objects you build are free to create and connect: domains, actions, agents, integrations, and environments are expansion vectors, not toll booths. They never appear as a line on the bill. See RFC 029 for the consumption model.

example governed operation
finance / prod / refund-agent
propose ISSUE_REFUND → recorded
proposal authenticated
evaluated vs state + domain
outcome allowed · blocked · approval
retries idempotent · not re-billed
receipt signed
billable once

A commitment you buy for what it gives you.

Cloud Scale and Enterprise are optional — taken after monthly usage shows a floor. The commitment is portability and price protection, not locked-in spend.

Measured entry
Scale is offered only after representative monthly usage exists. The quote uses your observed baseline — we do not ask you to forecast an unproven workload.
One portable balance
Committed spend moves across eligible domains, agents, teams, and environments in your org. Replacing an agent or reorganizing a domain does not strand the purchase.
Price protection
The contracted governed-operation rate and platform terms stay fixed for the twelve-month term, shown against the same monthly rate so the discount is visible.
No billing outage
Consumption beyond the commitment becomes overage. It does not unexpectedly stop a production decision path — billing quota never becomes an operational incident.
A narrow renewal cushion
Up to 10% of unused committed value can carry into a same-or-larger renewal — enough to limit shelfware without turning the commitment into a perpetual credit.
No services trap
Any paid launch-implementation package is credited against your first annual commitment when you convert during the package term.

Questions worth asking.

What is a governed operation?
One unique, authenticated action proposal KIFF evaluates against current state and the active domain contract and records with an outcome. allowed, blocked, and approval_required all count; idempotent retries and reads do not.
Why meter operations, not controls or agents?
Domains, actions, and agents are the things KIFF wants you to create and reuse freely. Charging per object would tax the architecture. Operations track the production work Cloud actually performs, so the bill follows real use.
Is Cloud Growth self-serve today?
Not yet. Growth is private beta: the monthly cap is disclosed up front and raised manually before your traffic reaches it. Public self-serve and automatic overage ship after the paid-plan grace path lands, so a billing limit never becomes a production outage.
What happens when I cross the allowance?
During private beta we raise the cap by hand before you reach it. Once metering ships, paid usage above the allowance becomes overage with alerts and budgets — not a hard stop on a production decision. Free Developer keeps a clearly disclosed cap.
Do receipts or retention cost extra?
Not at launch. Receipts and standard retention are bundled. Evidence is a protocol output, not a separately metered product; longer or customer-managed retention is a Scale/Enterprise option.
Are the prices final?
No. $199/month, the 50,000-operation allowance, and the $12k / $50k annual floors are launch hypotheses, reviewed after the first five production tenants or ninety days of usage. We would rather publish a provisional number than pretend the economics are settled.

What is not a line on the bill.

not per protected control
A control is one action-shaped view into a domain. KIFF no longer bills per control — it meters the operations Cloud performs.
not per domain or action
Build and compose as many domains and actions as you want. Modularity is the point, not a billing optimization problem.
not per agent or seat
Agents are meant to be replaceable and humans are not the traffic. Neither is a price dimension.
not per receipt
Evidence is a protocol output. Charging per record would push you to record less — the opposite of what KIFF is for.
not token or model pricing
We do not proxy LLM calls or sit on the model layer. Token volume is not our meter.
not flat unlimited SaaS
A platform fee pays for the standing runtime; consumption follows real production work, so cost aligns with value at any scale.

Build, connect, operate, prove.One path.

01
Build
Define the domain once in Studio, or draft it from a guard runtime KIFF observed.
02
Connect
Point agents, humans, and services at the same contract over the Cloud runtime API.
03
Operate
Cloud decides before each consequential action runs and records a signed receipt.
04
Prove
Export the decision record — every governed operation in the retained window, complete.