Billing and Commercial Reference

Kinoder uses Kino Credits as a customer billing unit for eligible generation and rendering. A Kino Credit is not a provider credit, model unit, dollar of expense, or guaranteed amount of output.

Customer billing lifecycle

1. Kinoder calculates a quote from the current allowed route and billing unit.
2. Fixed-price actions show an itemized quote before confirmation.
3. The server revalidates the confirmed total at submission.
4. Funds may be reserved while work is active.
5. Successful work settles the charge.
6. Eligible failure or cancellation releases the reservation or creates an idempotent refund.
7. Usage history records charges and refunds without exposing provider secrets.

Public profitability model

A sustainable price covers the worst allowed execution path: provider work, permitted retry or fallback, import and validation, compute, storage, delivery, payment fees, expected refunds, and a risk buffer.

required revenue = buffered variable cost / (1 - target contribution margin)
minimum Kino Credits = ceil(required revenue / floor net value per Credit)

IMAGE PLACEHOLDER - Quote and confirmation Replace with a sanitized cost-confirmation dialog showing itemized components and total Kino Credits. Recommended size: 1200 x 900 px.

Provider contracts, internal margin targets, invoices, package-floor calculations, and pause thresholds remain confidential. Dashboard estimates alone do not prove company profitability.