alt Hacker News> How does billing work?
> When you join a cohort, your card is saved but not charged until the cohort fills. Stripe holds your card information — we never store it. Once the cohort fills, you are charged and receive an API key for the duration of the cohort.
Have any cohorts filled yet?
I’m interested in joining one, but only if it’s reasonable to assume that the cohort will be full within the next 7 days or so. (Especially because in a little over a week I’m attending an LLM-centered hackathon where we can either use AWS LLM credits provided by the organizer, or we can use providers of our own choosing, and I’d rather use either yours or my own hardware running vLLM than the LLM offerings and APIs from AWS.)
I’d be pretty annoyed if I join a cohort and then it takes like 3 months before the cohort has filled and I can begin to use it. By then I will probably have forgotten all about it and not have time to make use of the API key I am paying you for.
No cohorts have been filled yet. We're still early. We are seeing reservations pick up quickly, but I'd be able to give you a more concrete estimate of fill velocity after about a week.
That said, we're planning to add a 7-day window: if a cohort doesn't fill within 7 days of your reservation, it cancels automatically and your card is released. We don't want anyone's payment method sitting in limbo indefinitely.