Managing a recurring IU subscription

What a recurring IU subscription is

Intelligence Units (IUs) are what Verinode's AI actions spend, from qualifying a decision to running a benchmark comparison. Every membership tier includes a monthly allotment of IUs, and when you need more than that allotment covers, there are three ways to add capacity: a one-time bundle, an opt-in auto-top-up, and a recurring monthly subscription. This article covers the third one: a standing monthly commitment to a fixed batch of IUs, billed on the same cycle every month until you cancel it.

A recurring subscription is different from the one-time bundles above it on the same page. A bundle is a single prepaid purchase, good for 12 months, that you buy once and draw down. A recurring subscription bills automatically every month at a fixed IU volume and price, no purchase click required after the first one, and keeps billing until you cancel it.

Where to find it

Open Account from the sidebar, then Billing, at /account/billing. The page is titled Intelligence Units.

The purchase options live under the Add Intelligence Units heading, in three parts:

• One-time bundles, four prepaid sizes you buy once.
• Recurring monthly, the same four sizes, but billed every month, described on the page as "Deepest per-IU discount. Cancel any month."
• The pay-as-you-go rate note beneath both grids, which only appears once your tier is known.

If you already have an active recurring subscription, a fourth section appears further down the page, Current recurring subscription. That section only renders when Verinode has a recurring subscription on file for your account; if you have never subscribed, or you canceled and the cycle has ended, it does not appear at all.

The Recurring monthly grid

Under Recurring monthly, four tiles sit side by side, one per IU volume: 250, 1,000, 5,000, and 20,000 IUs per month. Each tile shows:

• The volume, for example "1,000 IUs / month."
• The monthly price, in bold with a smaller "/ mo" label beside it, in whichever currency you have selected (USD or CAD, toggled top-right of the page).
• A Subscribe → link. While checkout is opening, it reads "Opening checkout…" and the tile is disabled so you cannot double-submit.

Clicking Subscribe → opens Stripe Checkout in subscription mode for that IU volume and currency. Completing checkout returns you to /account/billing/success, and if you back out of checkout instead, you land back on /account/billing?canceled=1 with nothing charged.

Recurring pricing is the deepest per-IU discount of the three ways to add capacity: cheaper per unit than a one-time bundle of the same size, which is itself cheaper per unit than the pay-as-you-go rate shown beneath the grids. The tradeoff is that a recurring subscription keeps billing every month until you cancel it, where a bundle is a single purchase with nothing recurring.

The Current recurring subscription section

This section appears only while you have an active recurring subscription. It shows two lines:

• Volume and price: "X Intelligence Units / month at $Y / month," where X is the IU volume you subscribed at (250, 1,000, 5,000, or 20,000) and Y is the monthly price in the currency you originally subscribed in.
• Cancellation policy: "Cancel any month from this page or via the Stripe customer portal. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle; any IUs already credited remain in your balance."

That second line is the operative policy for this whole article, so it is worth unpacking:

• Cancellation is end-of-cycle, not immediate. Canceling does not claw back the current month. Your subscription keeps running through the billing cycle you are already in, and the recurring charge simply does not fire again after that.
• Credited IUs are yours to keep. Any IUs the subscription has already added to your balance for the current cycle stay in your balance and draw down normally, whether you cancel today or on the last day of the cycle. Canceling does not remove IUs you have already been credited.
• No partial refund for the current cycle. Because credited IUs remain usable and the subscription runs through the paid period, canceling mid-cycle is not treated as a refund event.

How to actually cancel

The Current recurring subscription section is where you read your subscription's volume, price, and cancellation policy. To act on it, use the Stripe customer portal, reachable from Settings → Billing:

1. 1Open Settings, then the Billing tab.
2. 2Under Recent Invoices, click Manage in Stripe. This opens a Stripe-hosted customer portal session for your account.
3. 3Inside the portal, find your recurring Intelligence Units subscription in your list of subscriptions and cancel it.
4. 4Close the portal and return to Verinode. Your Account → Billing page keeps showing the Current recurring subscription section, with the same volume and price, until the current billing cycle ends and the subscription actually lapses.

The Manage in Stripe button only appears once you have a Stripe customer on file, which happens automatically the first time you check out for anything (a membership, a bundle, or a recurring subscription). If you have never completed a checkout, there is nothing to manage yet.

Switching volumes

There is no in-place upgrade or downgrade control for a recurring subscription. To move from, say, 1,000 IUs/month to 5,000 IUs/month, cancel the existing subscription through the Stripe portal (it runs out its current cycle), then subscribe to the new volume from the Recurring monthly grid on /account/billing. The two subscriptions do not overlap in charge unless you deliberately leave both active, in which case you would be billed for both until you cancel one.

Currency

The Recurring monthly grid prices in whichever currency is selected in the toggle at the top of the page, USD or CAD. Whatever currency you subscribed in is the currency your recurring charge and the Current recurring subscription line stay in going forward; switching the page's currency toggle afterward does not change an existing subscription's billing currency, it only changes what new purchases would be priced in.

Related reading

• Buying Intelligence Units covers the one-time bundle and auto-top-up paths that sit alongside recurring subscriptions on the same page.
• Your IU balance summary for what the Available and This month figures at the top of the page mean.
• Account billing overview for how this page fits into Account as a whole.
• Understanding your margin for how IU-consuming decisions tie back to what a job actually keeps.
• How benchmarks work for what peer benchmark features draw on your IU balance.
• The decision workspace for where IU-consuming AI actions actually run.