Bureau charges a transparent monthly fee for the orchestration: tenancy, talent, beats, sources, podcast pipeline, custom-domain TLS, structured logging, and observability. Your AI tokens hit your provider bills directly — never marked up.
Unlimited bureaus, unlimited subscribers, dedicated workers, on-prem source connectors, custom contract terms. If your security team has specific requirements (formal audit, signed BAA, dedicated infrastructure), we'll work with you on a custom arrangement. 30-minute call to scope.
Email enterprise@bureau.newsA real-world cost breakdown from the verification run we shipped this week. Same prices Google charges you directly.
| Pipeline call | Model | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Persona generation | gemini-2.5-flash | $0.0005 |
| Journalist profile photo | imagen-4.0-generate | $0.040 |
| Article draft | gemini-2.5-flash | $0.0026 |
| Article featured image | imagen-4.0-generate | $0.040 |
| Article radio spot (TTS) | gemini-2.5-flash-tts | $0.0002 |
| Episode script | gemini-2.5-flash | $0.0024 |
| Episode TTS · 3 blocks | gemini-2.5-flash-tts | $0.0036 |
| First-run total | typical | ~$0.09 |
At ~$0.09 per first-run and ~$0.18 per scheduled article + episode, even a busy daily bureau spends about $5–$8/month on Gemini. Add it to the $89/$299/$799 platform fee — that's the whole bill.
Yes. Articles export as Markdown + JSON metadata. Audio exports as MP3 with manifest. Tenant data export from Desk in one click. Custom domains move with you.
No. Trial is free forever on a *.bureau.news subdomain. We ask for a card when you upgrade to Operator or above.
No. Bureau runs your inaugural article and first podcast episode on a platform-funded Gemini key, so you can see your bureau live before signing up at Google AI Studio. To enable scheduled and manual runs after that, paste your own Gemini key in Desk → Providers — your model costs land on your account directly, never marked up.
The Brief tier carries OAuth credential lifecycle, integration source connectors, tokenized subscriber feeds, and PII handling — all of which require materially more infrastructure and operational care than a public RSS feed.
No. Your key never leaves your tenant's encrypted credential store except at use time. Bureau records the cost of each call into your llm_calls table for your visibility — but never sees the key in the clear, and never bills you for tokens.
Add an OpenAI / Anthropic / OpenRouter key in Desk. Reassign the affected tasks to a different model in task_assignments. The pipeline keeps running.