> ## 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
> Prices for Octen's APIs and models, and how billing works.
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**:
New accounts start on the Free plan; adding credits unlocks Base at no monthly cost.
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 registration.
## QPS Plans
**Free tier:**
| Plan | Web Search QPS | 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 | Web Search QPS | Monthly Price | Best For |
| - | - | - | - |
| Builder | Up to 50 | \$2,999 \$2,099 (30% off) | Early-stage teams going to production |
| Pro | Up to 200 | \$13,999 | Growing production workloads |
| Max | Up to 500 | \$33,999 | High-volume production at scale |
**Embedding limits**, in tokens per minute (TPM):
| Plan | Embedding TPM | VL Embedding TPM |
| :- | :- | :- |
| Free / Base | 1,000,000 | 200,000 |
| Builder | 2,500,000 | 500,000 |
| Pro | 10,000,000 | 2,000,000 |
| Max | 25,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
## API Pricing
### Octen Fast
Octen Fast includes Broad Search, Web Search, Image Search, and Video Search.
| API | Search API Call | Full Content |
| - | - | - |
| Broad Search | \$5 \$1 / 1k calls (80% off) | \$0.5 / 1k results |
| Web Search | \$5 \$1 / 1k calls (80% off) | \$0.5 / 1k results |
| Image Search | \$2 / 1k calls | - |
| Video Search | \$5 / 1k calls | - |
A single Broad Search call may include multiple Search API calls.
For Broad Search and Web Search, the full content of the first 10 results per search is free; only additional results are billed.
### Octen Premier
Octen Premier includes News Search and Business Search.
| API | Search API Call | Full Content |
| - | - | - |
| News Search | \$3 / 1k calls | \$0.5 / 1k results |
| Business Search | \$5 / 1k calls | \$0.5 / 1k results |
The full content of the first 10 results per search is free; only additional results are billed.
### Extract
| Resource | Price (USD) |
| - | - |
| Standard mode | \$1 / 1k successful URLs |
| Advanced mode | \$2.5 / 1k successful URLs |
Each URL is billed at the mode it was processed in, including URLs handled by auto mode. Failed URLs are not billed.
### 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) |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| openai/gpt-6.1-sol | \$2 (≤272k) / \$4 (>272k) | \$10 (≤272k input) / \$15 (>272k input) | \$0.1 (≤272k) / \$0.2 (>272k) | \$2.5 (≤272k) / \$5 (>272k) |
| openai/gpt-6-astra | \$10 (≤272k) / \$20 (>272k) | \$50 (≤272k input) / \$75 (>272k input) | \$1 (≤272k) / \$2 (>272k) | \$12.5 (≤272k) / \$25 (>272k) |
| openai/gpt-5.6-sol | \$4 (≤272k) / \$8 (>272k) | \$20 (≤272k input) / \$30 (>272k input) | \$0.4 (≤272k) / \$0.8 (>272k) | \$5 (≤272k) / \$10 (>272k) |
| openai/gpt-5.6-terra | \$2 (≤272k) / \$4 (>272k) | \$12 (≤272k input) / \$18 (>272k input) | \$0.2 (≤272k) / \$0.4 (>272k) | \$2.5 (≤272k) / \$5 (>272k) |
| openai/gpt-5.6-luna | \$0.2 (≤272k) / \$0.4 (>272k) | \$1.2 (≤272k input) / \$1.8 (>272k input) | \$0.02 (≤272k) / \$0.04 (>272k) | \$0.25 (≤272k) / \$0.5 (>272k) |
| openai/gpt-5.4 | \$2.5 | \$15 | \$0.25 | - |
| anthropic/claude-fable-5.1 | \$10 | \$50 | \$0.25 | \$12.5 (5m) / \$20 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-fable-5 | \$10 | \$50 | \$1 | \$12.5 (5m) / \$20 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 | \$4 | \$20 | \$0.2 | \$5 (5m) / \$8 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-opus-5 | \$5 | \$25 | \$0.5 | \$6.25 (5m) / \$10 (1h) |
| 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-5.5 | \$2 | \$10 | \$0.1 | \$2.5 (5m) / \$4 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-sonnet-5 | \$2 | \$10 | \$0.2 | \$2.5 (5m) / \$4 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6 | \$3 | \$15 | \$0.3 | \$3.75 (5m) / \$6 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 | \$0.1 (≤100k) / \$0.5 (>100k) | \$0.5 (≤100k input) / \$2.5 (>100k input) | \$0.01 (≤100k) / \$0.05 (>100k) | ≤100k: \$0.125 (5m) / \$0.2 (1h); >100k: \$0.625 (5m) / \$1 (1h) |
| anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 | \$1 | \$5 | \$0.1 | \$1.25 (5m) / \$2 (1h) |
| google/gemini-4-argon | \$4 | \$20 | \$0.2 | - |
| google/gemini-3.8-flash | \$0.75 | \$3.75 | \$0.075 | - |
| google/gemini-3.5-flash | \$1.5 | \$9 | \$0.15 | - |
| google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite | \$0.3 | \$2.5 | \$0.03 | - |
| 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 | - |
| moonshotai/kimi-k3 | \$3 | \$15 | \$0.3 | - |
| 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-0731 | \$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-flare | \$5 | - | \$8 | \$30 |
| openai/gpt-image-2.5-sunburst | \$5 | - | \$8 | \$30 |
| 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 |
**Video generation fees:**
| Model | Per Second (USD) | Per 1M Tokens (USD) | Reference Image (USD) |
| - | - | - | - |
| minimax/minimax-h3 | 768p: \$0.08 / 2K: \$0.13 | - | First 5 free, then \$0.04 each |
| bytedance/seedance-2.5 | - | 480p, 720p: \$10.7 / 1080p: \$11.7 | - |
| google/veo-3.1 | With audio: \$0.4 / Video only: \$0.2 | - | - |
| google/veo-3.1-fast | With audio: 720p \$0.1, 1080p \$0.12 / Video only: 720p \$0.08, 1080p \$0.1 | - | - |
| google/veo-3.1-lite | With audio: 720p \$0.05, 1080p \$0.08 / Video only: 720p \$0.03, 1080p \$0.05 | - | - |
**Example cost:**
A single `anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6` completion that runs 3 search calls, reads 40,000 cached input tokens, adds 10,000 fresh input tokens, and returns 2,000 output tokens:
| Component | Usage | Rate | Cost |
| - | - | - | - |
| Input tokens | 10,000 | \$3 / 1M | \$0.030 |
| Cache read | 40,000 | \$0.3 / 1M | \$0.012 |
| Output tokens | 2,000 | \$15 / 1M | \$0.030 |
| Search calls | 3 | \$1 / 1k | \$0.003 |
| **Total** | | | **\$0.075** |
### 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 |
| pro-visual | \$3 |
### 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)**
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Last modified on October 16, 2026
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