How billing works

Rolehound charges for two separate things. The subscription pays for the platform. Credit pays for the AI work. Neither one tops up or draws down the other, and it is worth keeping them apart in your head, because they behave differently.

The subscription

The subscription covers the parts that keep running whether you are looking at them or not: the searches that run in the background, the job URLs you add by hand, the connected mailbox and the reply tracking built on it, and the company watchlist. It is £5 per month, taken through Stripe, and you start it with Subscribe on the Billing page.

The credit

Four jobs go to an AI provider: reading your CV and the job pages behind the links you add, scoring a role against your profile, working out what an incoming email means, and drafting your tailored CV and cover letter. On Rolehound's own key, each of those calls is metered and charged against a prepaid balance held in pounds.

The charge is per call, worked out from the tokens the call actually used rather than a flat fee per job — so a short advert costs less than a long one, and a call that fails costs nothing at all. Before a call is made, Rolehound checks that your balance could cover the worst case that call might cost, and refuses it if it could not.

Why they are split

Because the two costs move differently. The platform costs about the same every month whatever you do with it, while the AI cost depends entirely on how much you put through it. Charged together, a quiet month would subsidise a busy one. Charged apart, you pay for the searching and then for exactly as much thinking as you asked for.

They can also be paid in different ways. Add your own Anthropic, OpenAI or Google Gemini key on the Billing page and the metering stops — the AI work then runs on your account and your provider bills you for it directly, while your credit balance sits untouched. Using your own API key covers that.

Where to look

All of it lives on the Billing page in your account: your credit balance and subscription status at the top, the top-up buttons below them, the API key card, and then three histories — payments, credit and usage. Invoices and statements explains how to read those. What each thing costs is on the pricing page.