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Overview

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

Subscribe to a QPS Plan

The Base plan is free by default.

Top up your balance

API charges are deducted from your balance in real time.

Pay as you go

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	Add credits to unlock Base
Base	Up to 20	$0	Upgrade to a QPS Plan for guaranteed throughput and SLA

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 / 1k calls
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	$12	$0.2	-
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	$3	-
openai/gpt-5.5	$5	$30	$0.5	-
openai/gpt-5.4	$2.5	$15	$0.25	-
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6	$0.75	$3.5	$0.1875	-
moonshotai/kimi-k2.5	$0.45	$2.2	$0.1125	-
minimax/minimax-m2.5	$0.25	$1.2	-	-
qwen/qwen3.6-plus	$0.5	$3	$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	-

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 dashboard.

Contact Us

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

Get in Touch

Reach out to us at support@octen.ai

​Overview

​QPS Plans

​API Pricing

​Broad Search and Web Search

​Image Search and Video Search

​Extract

​Model Gateway

​Embedding

​VL Embedding

​Application Pricing

​Answer and Multimodal Chat

​Deep Research

​Grounded Generation

​Invoices & Receipts

​Contact Us

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Overview

QPS Plans

API Pricing

Broad Search and Web Search

Image Search and Video Search

Extract

Model Gateway

Embedding

VL Embedding

Application Pricing

Answer and Multimodal Chat

Deep Research

Grounded Generation

Invoices & Receipts

Contact Us