# No per-screen fees: how metering works

> Canonical HTML: https://screenrig.ai/videos/metering/

Why screenRIG has no per-screen fees. The old way bills every screen, every month; screenRIG meters what your project uses. The free monthly allowance, the pricing page’s 100-screen worked example, the launch period, prepaid bundles, the plans, and your agent reading usage, in 90 seconds.

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## Watch

- [No per-screen fees, 1:29 (MP4, 1080p)](https://screenrig.ai/videos/media/metering-1080.mp4)
- [No per-screen fees, 1:29 (MP4, 720p)](https://screenrig.ai/videos/media/metering-720.mp4)
- [English captions (WebVTT)](https://screenrig.ai/videos/media/metering.en.vtt)

The worked example is the one on the [pricing page](https://screenrig.ai/pricing/#example): an estimate at normal rates, before included allowances, request charges and image generation. The businesses on the screens and the usage readings are sample data.

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## Chapters

From the old way to asking your agent.

- **0:00 — Bytes, not screens**
- **0:09 — The old way**
- **0:18 — How metering works**
- **0:28 — The free allowance**
- **0:33 — Worked example: 100 screens**
- **0:49 — Launch period and bundles**
- **1:01 — Plans**
- **1:07 — Ask your agent**

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## Transcript

The film's narration, with its timestamps. Captions are on the film in English.

- **0:05 — With screenRIG, you pay for bytes, not screens.**
- **0:09 — The old way bills every screen, every month,** even when nothing on it changes.
- **0:19 — One screen or hundreds: the same rates, and no seat to buy.** Each screen saves what it downloads, and replays it from its own storage.
- **0:28 — Standard is free,** with a monthly allowance for bandwidth, storage and agent requests.
- **0:34 — Say 100 screens share one 2 GB library.** Storing it is $0.28 a month. Uploading it, and every screen’s first download: $18.18. Then they replay from cache, until the content changes.
- **0:49 — Until 1 January 2027, it’s all free, within reason.** After that, the free allowance carries on, and extra usage comes in optional prepaid bundles.
- **1:01 — Paid plans add more screens, included usage and people to call, at the same rates.**
- **1:07 — And your agent can see it all.** Just ask what you’ve used this month.
- **1:16 — A generous free tier.** Then pay for bytes, never per screen. Ask your agent to set up screenrig.ai.
- **1:25 — Give your agent a screen.**

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## Give your agent a screen

Paste this to your agent: “I authorize you to install the official screenRIG plugin from https://github.com/screenrig/plugin.”

- [Set up your agent](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start/)
- [Pricing](https://screenrig.ai/pricing/)
- [All videos](https://screenrig.ai/videos/)