> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.octen.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Pricing

> Flexible plans combining monthly QPS subscriptions with pay-as-you-go API billing.

## Overview

Our pricing combines a **monthly QPS Plan subscription** with **pay-as-you-go API billing**:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Subscribe to a QPS Plan">
    The Base plan is free by default.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Top up your balance">
    API charges are deducted from your balance in real time.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Pay as you go">
    Charges are based on actual resource consumption (API calls, tokens).
  </Step>
</Steps>

<Tip>All new users receive **\$5 in free balance** upon registration.</Tip>

## QPS Plans

| Plan       | QPS Limit | Monthly Price | Discount          | Best For                       |
| ---------- | --------- | ------------- | ----------------- | ------------------------------ |
| Base       | 20        | Free          | —                 | Individual developers, testing |
| Pro        | 50        | \$3,999       | Search API 2% off | Growing teams                  |
| Scale      | 100       | \$8,999       | Search API 3% off | High-traffic platforms         |
| Enterprise | Custom    | Custom        | Custom            | Large organizations            |

## API Pricing

### Search

| Resource     | Price (USD)         |
| ------------ | ------------------- |
| API Call     | \$5 / 1k calls      |
| Full Content | \$0.001 / 1k tokens |

### Extract

| Resource | Price (USD)              |
| -------- | ------------------------ |
| API Call | \$1 / 1k successful URLs |

### Web Chat & Broad Search & Deep Research

Charges include Search fees (based on the number of search queries) and model usage fees (based on token consumption).

| Model                         | Input (USD / 1M tokens) | Output (USD / 1M tokens) |
| ----------------------------- | ----------------------- | ------------------------ |
| anthropic/claude-opus-4.8     | \$5                     | \$25                     |
| anthropic/claude-opus-4.6     | \$5                     | \$25                     |
| anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6   | \$3                     | \$15                     |
| anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5    | \$1                     | \$5                      |
| google/gemini-3.5-flash       | \$1.5                   | \$9                      |
| google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview | \$2                     | \$12                     |
| google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite  | \$0.25                  | \$1.5                    |
| google/gemini-3-flash-preview | \$0.5                   | \$3                      |
| openai/gpt-5.5-pro            | \$30                    | \$180                    |
| openai/gpt-5.5                | \$5                     | \$30                     |
| openai/gpt-5.4                | \$2.5                   | \$15                     |
| moonshotai/kimi-k2.6          | \$0.75                  | \$3.5                    |
| moonshotai/kimi-k2.5          | \$0.45                  | \$2.2                    |
| minimax/minimax-m2.5          | \$0.25                  | \$1.2                    |
| qwen/qwen3.6-plus             | \$0.5                   | \$3                      |

### Embedding

| Model                | Price (USD / 1M tokens) | Best For                      |
| -------------------- | ----------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| octen-embedding-8b   | \$0.07                  | Best accuracy                 |
| octen-embedding-4b   | \$0.04                  | Balanced performance and cost |
| octen-embedding-0.6b | \$0.01                  | High-volume and low-cost      |

### VL Embedding

Billed by input tokens. Text and multimodal (image / video) inputs are priced differently:

| Model                    | Text (USD / 1M tokens) | Image / Video (USD / 1M tokens) |
| ------------------------ | ---------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| octen-vl-embedding       | \$0.05                 | \$0.12                          |
| octen-vl-embedding-large | \$0.10                 | \$0.25                          |

## Billing Rules

### Billing Cycle

| Item      | Frequency | Details                                        |
| --------- | --------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| QPS Plan  | Monthly   | Charged at the beginning of each billing cycle |
| API Usage | Per call  | Deducted from balance in real time             |

### Invoices & Receipts

* Each top-up generates an invoice and receipt.
* Monthly usage statements are available in the [Billing](https://octen.ai/platform/billing) dashboard.

## Contact Us

For custom QPS plans, higher rate limits, or billing inquiries:

<Card title="Get in Touch" icon="envelope" href="mailto:support@octen.ai">
  Reach out to us at **[support@octen.ai](mailto:support@octen.ai)**
</Card>