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Pricing and Credits

Use plans and credits to evaluate workloads before scaling them.

How to think about plans

The plan tells you what level of access and support you are buying. The credits give you a shared spending framework across supported providers and model categories.

  • Free is for evaluation and early integration work.
  • Pro is for teams with recurring workloads and clearer production expectations.
  • Lifetime is for teams that want long-term access without adding another recurring subscription.

What credits are for

Credits help you test and compare workloads without turning every provider into a separate billing conversation. That matters most when teams are still learning where quality, latency, and price should balance out.

Cost control habits that scale better

  • start with the lowest-cost route that can still satisfy the job
  • reserve premium models for premium outcomes
  • review usage and billing before new workloads expand
  • decide which workloads must stay pinned to approved providers

Before enabling production traffic

Make sure the team agrees on approved providers, fixed routing behavior, and how billing will be reviewed. The earlier those rules are explicit, the easier it is to grow without pricing surprises.

Model Categories

Understand the workloads Cheap Model is designed to unify.

Table of Contents

How to think about plans
What credits are for
Cost control habits that scale better
Before enabling production traffic