I came across the June 2026 Teams pricing update and noticed the wording on the live page (screenshot below) describes the two usage pools as:
First-party models pool: Generous included usage for Auto and Composer 2.5.
Third-Party API: Usage consumed by third-party models.
My question: does this mean the first-party pool is exclusively Auto and Composer 2.5? Where is Grok 4.5 ? Is it lumped into the Third-Party API pool and counted against that limit instead?
For context, my Teams billing cycle reset on 27 June 2026, so my next reset is 27 July 2026, meaning I’m in the window just before the July 1st cutoff and can’t see the new pool split in action yet. So I can’t verify this myself until end of July.
Sure. I’m trying to understand the complete relationship between:
the $20 of usage credits included with my subscription;
the first-party model pool;
the third-party API pool; and
usage-based pricing after the included credits are exhausted.
Specifically, is the $20 credit shared across both pools, or is it only associated with the third-party API pool? Is the first-party pool additional usage provided on top of that $20?
Then, once I have consumed the full $20, what happens?
For example, if I still have usage remaining in the first-party pool, can I continue using Auto, Composer, and Grok without usage-based charges? Conversely, if I exhaust one pool but still have usage remaining in the other, does that other pool continue to provide included usage?
Essentially, I’m looking for the order in which usage is consumed and the exact condition that causes usage-based pricing to begin. A concrete example showing how the $20 and both pools are depleted would be helpful.
Happy to clarify, although there’s some important nuance here.
If you’re on the old team plan, there’s $20 of included usage, and that $20 applies across all model usage combined. Once you’ve used up that $20, you switch to on-demand (usage-based) pricing. So in this case, the $20 is a shared amount across everything, and after it’s consumed, additional usage is billed on demand. There is no separate pool for first/third party models.
If you’re on the new teams plan:, his works quite differently, and there’s significantly more usage overall. Instead of a single $20 pool, you have separate usage buckets: a first-party model pool and a third-party API pool.
If you’re on the new pricing, usage of Auto/Composer/Grok draws from the first-party pool first. Once the first-party pool is consumed, additional usage comes from the API pool. This means you can continue using Auto, Composer, and Grok drawing from these buckets as they’re available.
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