AI / ML Pricing Trends

The free tier now offers 'Free GPU' with public projects and 5GB storage. Instances are billed per hour. There are also multiple paid tiers with varying storage and instance types. All GPU and CPU instances are billed hourly'. Is now partially inaccurate as a 'Free GPU' is offered. Still billed hourly.

The free tier now offers $100 in usage credits and limits sandbox sessions to 1 hour with up to 20 concurrent sandboxes, a significant reduction from the original 100 sandbox hours/month with no stated session or concurrency limits.

The free tier now offers $20 in credits on sign-up with $10/month, and 5 Search Queries Per Second (QPS). Previously 1,000 free searches/month with an API key, and no API key was required for x402.

The free tier now explicitly states it's for personal development and prohibits corporate use. It includes 1 user seat, 5GB of storage, and up to 5 model seats. The page also details Pro and Enterprise tiers with associated costs and features.

The free tier and pricing have been significantly restructured. The current pricing page details Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash, and 3.5 Live Translate with different pricing tiers (Free and Paid) for Standard, Batch, Flexible, and Priority modes. The free tier now offers limited free usage of certain features like Google Search and Maps integration.

Pricing has significantly changed. The previous pricing of $0.28/$0.42/M tokens is no longer accurate. New models (deepseek-v4-flash, deepseek-v4-pro, deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp) are available with different pricing tiers for peak and off-peak hours, and cache hits/misses.

The free tier is no longer an API allowance of 2 RPM and 1B tokens a month across all models. It now carries limited messages, web searches and image generations in Vibe, plus access to Mistral Studio. $10 a month in API credits is sold separately.

Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-06). The free tier now includes $10 in credits and token rates, with 1 GB of processed data and 10k scores included. Overage is $4/GB and $2.50/1k scores. Data retention is 14 days. Retracted 2026-09-06: the free tier gained rather than lost. braintrust.dev/pricing, fetched 2026-09-06, lists Starter at "$0 / month" with "1 GB processed data + $4/GB", "10k scores + $2.50/1k", "14-day retention" and "Unlimited users, projects, datasets, playgrounds, and experiments" — every figure our stored description carries, unchanged — and adds "$10 credits + tok rates" that it did not carry before.

The startup program now offers a credit *match* up to a set amount, dollar-for-dollar on verified compute spend, rather than a flat $2,500 in free credits. The program is for companies actively using the platform, not for evaluation.

Grok 4.6 now costs $2.00/M input tokens and $6.00/M output tokens.

Anthropic API's own page now redirects to platform.claude.com, and the lineup behind it advanced. Claude Fable 5.1 is $10/$50 per MTok, Opus 5 is $5/$25, Sonnet 5 is $2/$10 and Haiku 4.5 is $1/$5. Anthropic also states that Sonnet 5's $2/$10 introductory pricing is now the standard price and the rise to $3/$15 scheduled for September 1, 2026 will not occur.

The free tier now includes pay-as-you-go pricing for traces beyond 5k/month, and introduces LCUs and LSUs for additional costs related to compute and storage.

The free tier now includes 15 PR Reviews/Week and 100 Agentic Code Review Credits/Day, down from 25 PR reviews and 100 tool calls.

The pricing has been restructured. While a free tier of 10,000 Neurons per day still exists, the pricing is now more granular and based on per-model unit pricing, billed in Neurons at $0.011 / 1,000 Neurons. Some models now require a paid plan or AI Gateway credits.

The product at this domain changed. The previous state described 100,000 free words across Azure OpenAI, DeepSeek and Gemini; the page is now a social media scheduling tool and carries none of those terms. A free plan remains at $0/month.

The free Public plan now offers 15 credits/month instead of 250,000 images, 10 projects, 2 users, and $60/month free inference credits.

The $200 free credit is still offered, but the details have expanded. Text-to-Speech's Flux TTS is free until September 12, 2026, and Voice Agent API's Flux TTS is also free until September 12, 2026.

The free tier is now limited to 25k spans per month with 60-day data retention, and focuses on observability and agent testing. There is also a separate 'Free Cloud' plan with different limits (up to 10 team members, 25k spans, 60-day retention) and a 'Free' open-source option. A free pro plan for academics is mentioned as 'New!'.

The file size limit for the free tier is now 5MB, up from 1MB.

Several discrepancies were found. Music generation APIs (Music-3.0, Music-2.6, Lyrics Generation) are discontinued for new users as of August 20, 2026, and free versions are being removed. The Hailuo video pricing is significantly different, with new models and pricing structures. The M2.7 pricing is also different. The page introduces MiniMax-M3 with different pricing tiers.

Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite will be deprecated June 1, 2026. Developers must migrate to Gemini 2.5 Flash or 3.x Flash models. Google is consolidating the model lineup — 2.0 generation reaching end of life as 2.5 and 3.x become production-ready.

DALL-E 2 and DALL-E 3 API access discontinued. Developers must migrate to gpt-image-1 (different pricing model, quality tiers changed from standard/hd to low/medium/high) or switch to free alternatives like Pollinations.AI or Lumenfall.ai

Realtime API beta endpoints deprecated. Developers must remove OpenAI-Beta header, use new client_secrets endpoint, specify session_type, and update event names. GA Realtime API is the direct replacement.

Kluster AI removed from index. Public pricing page shows a code review product ($30/month), not batch LLM inference. The $5 free credits for open-source model inference cannot be verified from any public page.

DeepSeek V3.2 replaces V4 branding. Pricing dropped: chat model $0.30→$0.28/M input, $0.50→$0.42/M output. Reasoner model pricing unified with chat at $0.28/$0.42 (was $0.55/$2.19). Free token welcome package appears removed.

Free tier reduced from 1,000 to 100 daily requests. Full access now requires Coding Plan Pro ($50/month).

No longer in force (2026-09-05). $25/month free API credits no longer offered — Grok API paid-only No longer in force as of 2026-09-05. This record cites nothing and xAI does not publish its sign-up credit terms on a page we can read, so it cannot be retracted on evidence; it is withdrawn because the claim it makes is contradicted by our own later record. Our xAI offer, verified 2026-08-14 and re-checked 2026-09-02, reads "Sign-up gives $25 in free API credits". Recorded separately: the URL that offer cites, docs.x.ai/developers/models, contains no occurrence of "free", "credit" or "$25" in its 5,452 characters of visible text, so that claim is also uncited and needs a source of its own.

Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-05). Free tier replaced by 14-day trial for Reasoning Engine Retracted 2026-09-05: Clarifai's Community plan was not replaced by a trial. The Internet Archive's 2026-03-04 capture of clarifai.com/pricing, five weeks before this record, and its 2026-04-17 capture, four days after it, both carry the same Compare Plans ladder: "Community | Get Community | Essential | Get Essential | Professional | Get Professional | Hybrid AI Enterprise | Contact Us | Private AI Enterprise | Contact Us", with "Monthly requests: Limited" and "Requests per second: 1" in the Community column. Community is an orderable plan on both sides of this record's date. The 14-day trial named here is the hero banner above that table - "Benchmark your models on the world's fastest inference engine with a free 14-day trial" - which offers a trial of the Reasoning Engine, not a replacement for the plan ladder. Our own offer record, verified 2026-07-15, reads "Community tier: 1,000 API calls/month".

Rebranded to Respan, free tier preserved

No longer in force (2026-09-05). Gemini API free tier restricted to Flash and Flash-Lite models only (April 2026). Gemini 2.5 Pro and other Pro models now require a paid billing account. Previously free users could access Pro models with rate limits. Combined with April 1 spend cap enforcement, this significantly narrows what is available at $0. No longer in force as of 2026-09-05: this record's own source page gives Gemini 2.5 Pro a Free Tier of "Free of charge" for input and for output. The contrast is on the same table - Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview reads "Not available" in the Free Tier column, which is what a paid-only model looks like there. Gemini 3.1 Pro is paid-only; 2.5 Pro is not. We hold no evidence either way about the state on 2026-04-08, so this is recorded as no longer in force rather than retracted.

Billing-account-level spend caps enforced starting April 1, 2026. When a tier's spend cap is reached, API requests pause until the next billing month. Affects pay-as-you-go developers who may see unexpected request pausing.

Grok Imagine free image/video generation locked behind SuperGrok subscription ($30/mo). Over 1B generations in first month overwhelmed capacity

Google quietly slashed Gemini API free tier rate limits by 50-80% in late 2025. Gemini 2.5 Flash went from ~250 requests/day to 20-50. Pro model free tier removed entirely. A Google PM admitted generous limits were only supposed to be available for a single weekend

Free trial credits ($5-$18 for new accounts) completely discontinued. Free tier now limited to GPT-3.5 Turbo at 3 RPM with no credits. All advanced models (GPT-4, DALL-E, Whisper) require paid access