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Engineering notes, creator economics, and product announcements from the team building ToRun.
Billing
3 Nov 2026 · 2 min read
What You Pay When an Image Request Fails
When you ask ToRun to create or edit an image, the request goes to the provider of the model you chose, or of the model Auto picked for you. Most requests come back with a picture. Some fail, and until this update one ki…
Billing
14 Sept 2026 · 4 min read
A Refund Should Take Back Access Too
We ran a refund on our own account to check that the ledger reversed correctly. It did. Then someone read the rest of the account state, which is where the real finding was: the plan was still active, and still active un…
Billing
14 Aug 2026 · 2 min read
Pay for What Was Delivered
Someone asked our birthday-video workflow for a card for a seven-year-old. The picture step tripped the provider's content rules over the age; the lyrics and the song were made anyway. The run half worked, and the bill w…