Apple and Meta have revealed how they plan to charge for AI agents that will run smart homes, shifting from hardware margins to metered services. Apple's footnotes on HomeView and HomePod mini 2 say some server-side Apple Intelligence features have daily usage limits and will be available for a fee in the future, but give no price or date. Meta already has a tiered plan: a free tier with a weekly usage limit, a Power plan at $20 per month for 500 million Muse tokens per week, and a Maximum plan at $100 per month for 3 billion tokens per week. The article concludes that the hardware is the entry point while the agent becomes the recurring, metered revenue line.
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