# Tanso

## Docs

- [Introduction](https://tanso.mintlify.app/introduction.md): What Tanso is and who it's for
- [Quickstart](https://tanso.mintlify.app/quickstart.md): Run Tanso and prove a five-credit hard limit end to end
- [Authentication](https://tanso.mintlify.app/authentication.md): API keys for machines, JWTs for humans
- [Billing lifecycle](https://tanso.mintlify.app/billing-lifecycle.md): From empty database to attributed revenue — every call verified
- [Metering & entitlements](https://tanso.mintlify.app/metering-and-entitlements.md): Idempotent events in, real-time allow/deny out
- [Credits](https://tanso.mintlify.app/credits.md): The credit wallet: prepaid balances with grants, FIFO draw-down, and a full ledger
- [Credit weights](https://tanso.mintlify.app/credit-weights.md): The server-side tariff: how many credits one usage unit burns, per feature and model
- [Credit prices](https://tanso.mintlify.app/credit-prices.md): The price book: what one credit costs the buyer, per denomination — the second pricing dial
- [Agent-serve](https://tanso.mintlify.app/agent-serve.md): Make your product buyable by AI agents: machine-readable pricing, programmatic signup, scoped keys, off-session payments, and a burndown API
- [TypeScript SDK](https://tanso.mintlify.app/sdk.md): Use @tansohq/sdk with your self-hosted Tanso instance
- [MCP server](https://tanso.mintlify.app/mcp.md): Operate your billing with an AI agent — same auth, same scoping, no separate path
- [Credit forecasts](https://tanso.mintlify.app/credit-forecasts.md): Embeddable, provider-neutral credit and usage burndown forecasting for your dashboard
- [Self-hosting](https://tanso.mintlify.app/self-hosting.md): Configuration, environments, and production notes