> ## 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

<p style={{ fontSize: "0.8rem", opacity: 0.6 }}>For AI agents: <a href="https://docs.octen.ai/overview/pricing.md">docs.octen.ai/overview/pricing.md</a></p>

## 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 adding a payment method.</Tip>

## 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](https://octen.ai/platform/billing) dashboard.

## Contact Us

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

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