Vantage RuntimeAI · Pricing

The gate is free. Pro is not for sale yet.

A partner running the free gate today has the complete product for their own team: three-state verdict, portable decision in their own CI store, offline verify, and the local still-ship Center (management cockpit — not a hosted dashboard). Pro begins where that record has to convince someone outside the team. Countersignature is free in preview. Hosted multi-owner history and the chain are in development. There is no checkout.

Shipped · Core 0.1.18 · free forever

Wire the gate

$0

  • pip install vantage-core — no RuntimeAI account (-U if upgrading)
  • Gate on your change · three-state verdict (pass / review / block, exit 0/2/1)
  • Portable runtimeai.decision/v1 in your own CI store
  • Offline vantage-core verify · published keyring
  • HTML/PDF memo as a CI artifact · metered cost · agent-turn latency
  • Still-ship Center — local HTML cockpit + fleet register (vantage-core center / demo --interactive)
  • Opt-in cost and latency ceilings · regression vs last-ship baseline
  • Cadence: Core stamps trigger.kind; a cron does the rest. Pro is where cadence is configured and retained
  • BYOK — OpenAI / Anthropic / Google / OpenRouter
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When the record has to travel

Not billed

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Pro is not for sale yet. When it ships we expect ~$49/mo per shipped product. Countersignature is free while in preview — at least 90 days’ notice before that changes.

  • Countersignature (signer ≠ shipper) — free while in preview. At least 90 days’ notice before that changes. Not a paywall on signing
  • Retained multi-owner history — in development
  • The chain (seq / prev_digest) — designed, emitted null
  • Fleet policy, SSO, audit-grade export, private deploy — not built
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Preflight sizes one path before you spend (try a prefilled run → — then pin the same contract in free CI.

Paid currently buys nothing. There is no billing. Countersignature is free while in preview; we will give at least 90 days’ notice before that changes. History and the chain are in development. The hosted eval allowance on the API is a spend cap for trials, not a product tier. hello@vantageai.cc.

Example scorecards

Same path, five models — sorted by score, then price. Illustrative rulers you can re-run in CI, not a billed SKU. Each row links to the scorecard PDF.

Messaging / website clarity

5 models · 8 turns

Which model audits a buyer-facing page for ship-gate clarity — keep/cut/rewrite — without overpaying?

Model Score Pass Est. $/run Report
claude-haiku-4.57.6Pass$0.042Report · PDF
nova-lite-v17.2Pass$0.0009Report · PDF
claude-sonnet-4.67.2Pass$0.049Report · PDF
kimi-k23.2Fail$0.0083Report · PDF
mistral-nemo2.8Fail$0.0002Report · PDF

Spread 7.6 → 2.8. Cheapest decision pass: nova-lite at ~$0.0009/run. Haiku leads at 7.6; micro models and kimi fail the bar.

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Feature leakage review

5 models · 6 turns

Which model catches train/serve leakage before a bad feature ships?

Model Score Pass Est. $/run Report
nova-micro-v18.0Pass$0.0006Report · PDF
gpt-4.1-mini8.0Pass$0.0070Report · PDF
gpt-oss-20b7.2Pass$0.0006Report · PDF
gemini-2.5-flash7.2Pass$0.0080Report · PDF
mistral-nemo6.8Fail$0.0002Report · PDF

Scores split 8.0 / 7.2 / 6.8. Cheapest full pass: nova-micro at ~$0.0006/run. Mistral fails the bar; gpt-oss and Gemini clear it at 7.2.

Rankings for this scenario →

Engage / outreach draft

5 models · 12 turns

Which model drafts outreach that clears a fixed pass bar — without overpaying?

Model Score Pass Est. $/run Report
nova-lite-v17.2Pass$0.0043Report · PDF
claude-haiku-4.57.2Pass$0.081Report · PDF
mistral-nemo6.8Fail$0.0007Report · PDF
gpt-4o-mini6.4Fail$0.0074Report · PDF
llama-3.1-8b-instruct5.6Fail$0.0007Report · PDF

Wide spread: 7.2 down to 5.6. Two models pass (nova-lite and Haiku); three fail. Cheapest pass is nova-lite at ~$0.004/run — ~19× cheaper than Haiku for the same score.

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Compared to common tools

Different jobs, different units — public list prices for orientation only.

RuntimeAI Braintrust LangSmith Promptfoo
Core job Continuous ship / still-trust (five axes) Experiments + LLM-judge evals Traces + debug + evals Local assertions / red-team
Free surface vantage-core CI gate Starter tier Developer tier OSS / local CI
Paid from Not billed Pro ~$249/mo flat Plus ~$39/seat/mo Enterprise sales
Paid unit History and the chain, when they exist Processed data + scores Traces + seats Support / hosted
You still pay Your stack + inference Your stack + inference Your stack + inference Your stack + inference

Reference figures are approximate public list prices (mid-2026). See FAQ for product-fit detail.

Cost Forecast · FAQ · CI gate · hello@ · Preflight · About

Inference estimates use public provider rates and can change. No RuntimeAI account required for the free CI gate.

For search engines and LLMs
Vantage prices the continuous trust decision beside your stack — not a model vendor, not orchestration, not traces. Free: pip install vantage-core, three-state gate, runtimeai.decision/v1 in your CI store, offline verify, BYOK. Paid currently buys nothing. Countersignature is free while in preview (90 days' notice). History and the chain are in development. Preflight is an on-ramp only.