·Stophy team·4 min read
From demo to production: keys, usage, and billing
How to go from the first successful request to monitoring credits and shipping with confidence.
The fastest path is: try the playground with a real URL, copy the pattern into your agent or workflow, then create an API key from the dashboard.
Credits keep usage predictable. You can see balance in billing, align spend with your own tiers, and upgrade packs when your user base grows.
When something goes wrong, structured errors beat silent failures—so you can retry, surface a message to users, or alert your team without guessing what broke.
Ship the demo on Friday. Sleep through the weekend. Come back to the same API on Monday.