Two kinds of payment
| What | Who is paid | How |
|---|---|---|
| The placement (guest post or link insertion) | The publisher who sells the site | You pay the publisher's invoice directly, at the price you saw when you ordered. Linkio does not take or move this money. |
| Linkio's work (searches past the free sites, articles, checks, write calls) | Linkio | Charged per job from money on the account or your card. |
On a search result the price you pay the publisher is guestPostCost, in dollars. On an order item it is
wholesalePrice, in cents. That is the one price per site.
Linkio's fees
Every paid job says what it will hold before it runs. An agent reads that with usage_estimate. A job the
account cannot fund is refused with a 402 that names the way out. Reads of your own data are free. Each call
of a key that writes costs a write fee.
Three things fund Linkio's work:
- Your own provider keys (https://www.linkio.com/account/ai-keys). The provider bills you at cost. Linkio charges only its fee. On Linkio's keys a job pays the provider cost plus Linkio's margin.
- Money on the account (https://www.linkio.com/shop).
- A card (https://www.linkio.com/billing). Usage goes onto the card and is charged automatically: $5 the first time, then every $50, and on the 1st of each month.
A new account with its OpenAI and DataForSEO keys live and a verified email gets a $10 free start for 90 days. Each fee, and how the card and the free start work in detail: Billing, limits and receipts.
Spending limits
Set them on https://www.linkio.com/billing#limits. An agent reads them with usage_limits_get.
- A monthly budget. Paid work stops when the month's budget is used.
- "Ask me before any job over $X". A job above that amount waits for your yes. You decide on https://www.linkio.com/account/activity?view=waiting.
What a month cost
- Linkio's charges:
usage_jobslists each charge of a month (feature, provider cost, Linkio's fee, amount). The billing page shows the same. - Publisher payments:
account_publisher_invoices_listlists each publisher invoice, pending and paid. In the app they are on https://www.linkio.com/account/publisher-payments.
Linkio does not add the two together. Add them to get the month's total.