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Stoa SDK

Usage-based billing SDK for AI applications. Wrap your AI provider calls to automatically meter usage and bill your users.

Installation

npm install @onstoa/sdk

Quick Start

import { InsufficientBalanceError, Stoa } from "@onstoa/sdk";

// Reads STOA_API_KEY and STOA_APP_ID from environment
const stoa = new Stoa();

// 1. Register or reuse the member from your backend
await stoa.registerMember({
  connectSecret: process.env.STOA_CONNECT_SECRET!,
  userId: "user_123",
  email: "ada@example.com",
});

// 2. Use your app's own user ID for billing calls
const client = stoa.openai("user_123");

try {
  const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
    model: "gpt-4",
    messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello!" }],
  });
} catch (error) {
  if (error instanceof InsufficientBalanceError) {
    console.log(`Please top up: ${error.topupUrl}`);
  }
}

Typical flow:

call stoa.registerMember(...) from your backend
keep using your own app userId in SDK billing calls
send the user to error.topupUrl if they need funds

Onboard Users

Stoa can stay invisible to the customer while still owning the canonical user and membership records.

User onboards via your app

From your backend, call the SDK once with your connect secret and the user's verified app identity:

import { Stoa } from "@onstoa/sdk";

const stoa = new Stoa({
  apiKey: process.env.STOA_API_KEY,
  baseUrl: process.env.STOA_BASE_URL,
  appId: process.env.STOA_APP_ID,
});

const result = await stoa.registerMember({
  connectSecret: process.env.STOA_CONNECT_SECRET!,
  userId: user.id,
  email: user.email,
  name: user.name,
  avatarUrl: user.avatarUrl,
});

// Optional: store the membership ID for debugging or richer account UX.
await persistMembershipBinding({
  userId: user.id,
  membershipId: result.membershipId,
});

Stoa registers the user for billing in your app.

Your app can continue billing that user with its own userId.

Optional: open a hosted top-up page

If you want an explicit "Add funds" action in your product:

const topupUrl = await stoa.getTopupUrl(user.id);

This returns a hosted Stoa payment page for that app user.

User installs via Stoa marketplace

Marketplace installs use the install flow below.

Install callback

Add a callback endpoint that verifies the Stoa install token and activates the membership for your app user. Both flows should converge on the same stored membership binding in your app.

import { Stoa } from "@onstoa/sdk";

const stoa = new Stoa();

async function stoaCallback(token: string) {
  const claims = await stoa.verifyInstallCallback(token);

  const user = await findOrCreateUser({
    email: claims.email,
    name: claims.name,
  });

  const install = await stoa.exchangeInstallToken(token, user.id);

  await persistMembershipBinding({
    userId: user.id,
    membershipId: install.membershipId,
  });

  return createSessionAndRedirect(user);
}

The SDK fetches Stoa's public key for you and keeps the server-side activation step in place, so the secure flow does not become app boilerplate.

Supported Providers

OpenAI

const client = stoa.openai("user_123");

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "gpt-4",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Explain quantum computing" }],
});

const embeddings = await client.embeddings.create({
  model: "text-embedding-3-small",
  input: "Hello world",
});

Anthropic

const client = stoa.anthropic("user_123");

const response = await client.messages.create({
  model: "claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022",
  max_tokens: 1024,
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Write a haiku about TypeScript" }],
});

Environment Variables

Variable	Required	Default	Description
`STOA_API_KEY`	Yes	-	Your Stoa application API key
`STOA_APP_ID`	No	-	Your Stoa application ID (required for member registration unless passed explicitly)
`STOA_BASE_URL`	No	`https://api.onstoa.com`	Stoa API base URL (for self-hosted or testing)

Example `.env`

# Required
STOA_API_KEY=stoa_app_xxx
STOA_APP_ID=app_xxx

# Optional - override API endpoint
STOA_BASE_URL=https://api.onstoa.com

# Provider keys (only needed for providers you use)
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

Documentation

See docs.onstoa.com for full documentation.

@onstoa/sdk