Requires SocialMate 3. The Claude Agent arrives with SocialMate 3 — coming very soon. Today’s download is SocialMate 2; the app offers the update to 3 when it is released (on a server, update with your usual command).
There is no extra SocialMate charge for the Claude Agent: it is included in Pro. What you pay for is the model, and you pay the provider directly on your own key. With Ollama on your own machine, the model costs nothing per message.
You set the ceiling
- Per agent: a daily and a monthly limit in USD — $5 a day and $50 a month by default. At 80% the
agent.budget_warningwebhook fires. - At the limit: hand chats to a person, pause the agent, or switch to a cheaper fallback model.
- For all agents: a Monthly cap for all agents on the Agents page — a hard stop, no fallback past it.
- Per chat: a maximum number of turns per chat per day (40 by default).
See what it spent
The Agents page shows cost today; each agent’s Overview shows tokens and cost per day and per model for 7, 14 or 30 days, and each run’s details show its tokens and cost. Cost is worked out from SocialMate’s own price list per model — input, output and cached tokens — not from the SDK’s estimate.
Keep it low. A low-cost model such as DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, short and current business facts, and only the jobs you need keep each run small.
Step-by-step guide
See Budgets, usage and costs and the per-model prices in Connect a model.