> ## 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
For AI agents: docs.octen.ai/overview/pricing.md
## Overview
Our pricing combines a **monthly QPS Plan subscription** with **pay-as-you-go API billing**:
The Base plan is free by default.
API charges are deducted from your balance in real time.
Charges are based on actual resource consumption (API calls, tokens).
All new users receive **\$5 in free balance** upon adding a payment method.
## QPS Plans
**Free tier:**
| Plan | QPS Limit | Monthly Price | Notes |
| ---- | --------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| Free | Up to 10 | \$0 | Default tier for every new account |
| Base | Up to 20 | \$0 | Unlocked automatically once you add credits |
**QPS plans**, with guaranteed throughput and SLA:
| Plan | QPS Limit | Monthly Price | Best For |
| ------- | --------- | -------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
| Startup | Up to 50 | \$2,999 \$2,099 (30% off) | Early-stage teams going to production |
| Pro | Up to 200 | \$13,999 | Growing production workloads |
| Scale | Up to 500 | \$33,999 | High-volume production at scale |
## API Pricing
### Broad Search and Web Search
A single Broad Search call may include multiple Search API calls.
| Resource | Price (USD) |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------- |
| Search API Call | \$5 \$1 / 1k calls (80% off) |
| Full Content | \$0.001 / 1k tokens |
### Image Search and Video Search
| Resource | Price (USD) |
| --------------- | -------------- |
| Search API Call | \$5 / 1k calls |
### Extract
| Resource | Price (USD) |
| -------- | ------------------------ |
| API Call | \$1 / 1k successful URLs |
### Model Gateway
Charges include Search fees (based on the number of search queries) and model usage fees (based on token consumption).
**Token fees:**
| Model | Input (USD / 1M tokens) | Output (USD / 1M tokens) | Cache Read (USD / 1M tokens) | Cache Write (USD / 1M tokens) |
| ----------------------------- | --------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| anthropic/claude-opus-4.8 | \$5 | \$25 | \$0.5 | \$6.25 (5m) / \$10 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-opus-4.6 | \$5 | \$25 | \$0.5 | \$6.25 (5m) / \$10 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | \$3 | \$15 | \$0.3 | \$3.75 (5m) / \$6 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 | \$1 | \$5 | \$0.1 | \$1.25 (5m) / \$2 (1h) |
| google/gemini-3.5-flash | \$1.5 | \$9 | \$0.15 | - |
| google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview | \$2 (≤200k) / \$4 (>200k) | \$12 (≤200k input) / \$18 (>200k input) | \$0.2 (≤200k) / \$0.4 (>200k) | - |
| google/gemini-3.1-flash-lite | \$0.25 | \$1.5 | \$0.025 | - |
| google/gemini-3-flash-preview | \$0.5 | \$3 | \$0.05 | - |
| openai/gpt-5.5-pro | \$30 | \$180 | - | - |
| openai/gpt-5.5 | \$5 | \$30 | \$0.5 | - |
| openai/gpt-5.4 | \$2.5 | \$15 | \$0.25 | - |
| moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | \$0.95 | \$4 | \$0.16 | - |
| moonshotai/kimi-k2.5 | \$0.6 | \$3 | \$0.1 | - |
| minimax/minimax-m2.5 | \$0.3 | \$1.2 | - | - |
| qwen/qwen3.6-plus | \$0.5 (≤256k) / \$2 (>256k) | \$3 (≤256k input) / \$6 (>256k input) | \$0.05 | \$0.625 (5m) |
| deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro | \$1.74 | \$3.48 | \$0.145 | - |
| deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash | \$0.14 | \$0.28 | \$0.028 | - |
**Image generation token fees:**
| Model | Text Input (USD / 1M tokens) | Text Output (USD / 1M tokens) | Image Input (USD / 1M tokens) | Image Output (USD / 1M tokens) |
| ----------------------------- | ---------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------ |
| openai/gpt-image-2 | \$5 | - | \$8 | \$30 |
| openai/gpt-image-1-mini | \$2 | - | \$2.50 | \$8 |
| google/gemini-3-pro-image | \$2 | \$12 | \$2 | \$120 |
| google/gemini-3.1-flash-image | \$0.50 | \$3 | \$0.50 | \$60 |
### 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 |
## Application Pricing
### Answer and Multimodal Chat
Charges include Search fees (based on the number of search queries) and model usage fees (based on token consumption).
### Deep Research
Billed per request, based on the selected tier.
| Tier | Price (USD / request) |
| -------- | --------------------- |
| lite | \$0.2 |
| standard | \$1 |
| pro | \$2.5 |
### Grounded Generation
Billed per generated output, based on the modality.
| Modality | Price (USD) |
| -------- | -------------- |
| Image | \$0.25 / image |
| Video | \$1 / video |
## 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:
Reach out to us at **[support@octen.ai](mailto:support@octen.ai)**