Sonilo Account

Two free, read-only tools for checking what a Sonilo account can do and how much it's used. Neither makes a charge.

Setup: See the setup-api-key skill.

Transport: MCP or CLI

Pick one at the start of the session and stay on it. Do not mix the two inside a single job, and do not announce the choice.

1. Sonilo MCP tools visible in this session (get_account_services and friends) — use them. This is the preferred path: it needs no shell, and it is the only one that survives a very long generation. If a call fails to authenticate — rather than failing on its inputs — this transport is not usable in this session: go to 2 instead of retrying it.
2. No usable Sonilo MCP tools, but sonilo account exits 0 — use the CLI commands below. Same API, same account, same credential file. Probe with sonilo account, not sonilo whoami: whoami exits 0 even when signed out, so it cannot tell the two states apart.
3. Neither — stop and run the setup-api-key skill. Do not call api.sonilo.com with curl to work around it; both transports handle uploads, polling and retries that a bare request does not.

Quick Start

MCP tool call (recommended)

get_account_services()

get_usage(days=7)

Python (pip install sonilo)

from sonilo import Sonilo

client = Sonilo()  # reads SONILO_API_KEY

services = client.account.services()
usage = client.account.usage(days=7)

JavaScript / TypeScript (npm install sonilo)

import { SoniloClient } from "sonilo";

const client = new SoniloClient(); // reads SONILO_API_KEY

const services = await client.account.services();
const usage = await client.account.usage({ days: 7 });

CLI (npm install -g sonilo-cli or pip install sonilo-cli)

sonilo account
sonilo usage --days 7

sonilo account prints the account JSON to stdout and, when the account has a free-trial allowance, one summary line to stderr (Free trial: text-to-music 1/2 left, ...) — so sonilo account | jq .trial still sees clean JSON.

cURL (raw REST API, no MCP host)

curl "https://api.sonilo.com/v1/account/services" -H "Authorization: Bearer $SONILO_API_KEY"
curl "https://api.sonilo.com/v1/account/usage?days=7" -H "Authorization: Bearer $SONILO_API_KEY"

Tools

get_account_services Response Shape

{
  "available_services": [...],
  "rpm_limit": 60,
  "concurrency_limit": 4,
  "discount_factor": 1.0,
  "max_upload_size_mb": 300,
  "trial": {
    "text_to_music": {"granted": 2, "used": 0, "remaining": 2},
    "video_to_music": {"granted": 1, "used": 1, "remaining": 0}
  }
}

• The trial key is absent entirely for accounts with no free-trial allowance — treat that as "bills normally," not as an error.
• A trial object that's present but has no entry for a given service means that service has no free-trial allowance at all and bills from the first call. dubbing shows granted: 1, but that run is a 15-second preview of the first single-language call, not a full translation — see the auto-dubbing skill.
• When trial[service].remaining is 0, calling that service fails with a 402 trial_exhausted error that no retry fixes.

Workflow Tips

• Check before you generate. Before calling any paid tool (text_to_music, video_to_music, text_to_sfx, video_to_sfx, video_to_video_music, video_to_video_sfx, video_to_sound, video_to_video_sound, dubbing, proofread, audio_ducking), call get_account_services() if you're unsure whether the account has free runs left. If trial[service].remaining is 0, tell the user their free trial for that service is spent and that continuing needs a payment method — don't just attempt the call and surface a raw 402.
• dubbing's free run is a 15-second preview, not a full video: only the first single-language call without scripts is free, and it translates just the first 15 seconds. Several languages, scripts, and every later call are billed. See the auto-dubbing skill's cost warning.
• proofread does have a free-trial allowance — 2 runs — and, like dubbing, bills per language after that. See the proofread skill.
• Usage reconciliation: if a generation timed out or failed, use get_usage to confirm whether the backend actually completed (and charged) it, rather than assuming nothing happened.
• Rate-limited (429)? get_account_services() reports rpm_limit and concurrency_limit so you can tell the user what ceiling they hit.

Error Handling

Both tools are simple authenticated GETs — expect 401 for an invalid/rotated key. get_usage also validates days client-side (1–365) before making the request.