{"slug":"development/runtime/metering","title":"Metering & Cost of Work","section":"development","sectionLabel":"Development","status":"unclassified","type":"document","path":"development/runtime/metering.md","bytes":899,"description":null,"updated":null,"source":"integratewise/Integratewise-docs-wiki","content":"<!-- DOCUMENT CLASS: DEVELOPMENT | SOURCE: 32_METERING_COST_OF_WORK.md -->\n\n# Metering & Cost of Work\n\n## Economic primitive\n\nThe platform should understand:\n\n> **Cost of Work**\n\nrather than measuring only seats or model calls.\n\n## Cost dimensions\n\n```text\nHuman Time\nAI Compute\nModel Calls\nAgent Execution\nAPI Calls\nMCP Calls\nWorkflow Runtime\nInfrastructure\nStorage\nCommunication\nExternal Provider Cost\nRetries\n```\n\n## Work cost model\n\n```text\nWork\n→ Resource Consumption\n→ Cost\n→ Outcome\n→ Business Value\n```\n\n## Product economics\n\nThe commercial model may combine:\n\n- platform fee;\n- usage;\n- connectors;\n- workflow/execution;\n- AI/agent consumption;\n- services;\n- enterprise governance.\n\nFinal prices must live in the approved pricing document, not architecture docs.\n\n## Principle\n\n> Meter the operational work the platform enables, while keeping technical usage measurable underneath.\n"}