AI agent tools and billing guides

Learn how to connect agents, choose an integration, evaluate APIs, control spending, and bill customers with Locus Pro. Each guide links to the relevant implementation reference.

Connect AI Agent Tools with Locus Pro

Connect a personal agent or enterprise runtime to paid APIs through hosted MCP, choose the right credential, and verify the first tool call.

MCP vs API vs SDK for AI Agent Tools

Choose hosted MCP for interactive agents or API and SDK access for application code. Compare discovery, credentials, billing, and customer attribution.

Prepaid Credits for AI Agents: How They Work

Understand Locus Pro credit balances, subscription allowances, purchased credits, usage pricing, reservations, refunds, and funding controls.

Usage-Based Billing for AI Agents and APIs

Design customer balances, exact usage prices, markup, retries, and receipts for an AI product, with a worked Locus Pro billing example.

API Key Management and BYOK for AI Agents

Compare managed provider access with enterprise BYOK. Import supported OpenAPI actions, protect upstream credentials, and understand who pays.

Control AI Agent Tool Spending

Combine prepaid balances, account caps, scoped credentials, tool permissions, and live-quote ceilings to control agent tool costs.

Locus Pro vs Direct API Integrations

Compare API coverage, credentials, usage pricing, billing ownership, data handling, and maintenance when choosing Locus Pro or direct providers.

How to Evaluate AI Agent Tools and API Providers

Evaluate agent tools with representative tasks, schema checks, useful results, latency, real charges, and failure handling before rollout.

Agentic payments guide

Learn how AI agents pay for tools and APIs under predefined limits, policies, and audit controls using MCP, x402, and Locus infrastructure.

Best tools for Hermes agent

The most useful tools to install on a Hermes agent: web search, browser automation, paid APIs over MCP, and the hermes mcp commands to add each one.

Best tools for OpenClaw agent

The most useful tools to install on an OpenClaw agent: web search, browser control, paid APIs over MCP, and the openclaw mcp commands to add each one.

Best MCP servers for Claude Code

The best MCP servers for Claude Code: paid APIs over one connection, search, browser control, and repos, with the claude mcp add commands to install each.

How to set up OpenClaw

Set up OpenClaw step by step: install, onboard, add MCP servers, and connect Locus Pro so your agent can call paid tools from one balance.

How to set up Hermes agent

Set up the Hermes agent step by step: install, first run, add MCP servers, and connect Locus Pro so your agent can call paid tools from one balance.

For current offerings, see the tool catalog, pricing, and enterprise overview.