Pricing
All prices per million tokens. No minimums, no seats, no monthly platform fee. You pay for tokens.
| Model | Context | Input (list) | Input (yours) | Output (list) | Output (yours) | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 4.1Anthropic | 200K | $15.00 | $7.50 | $75.00 | $37.50 | 50% |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5Anthropic | 200K | $3.00 | $1.50 | $15.00 | $7.50 | 50% |
| Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | 200K | $1.00 | $0.600 | $5.00 | $3.00 | 40% |
| GPT-5OpenAI | 400K | $1.25 | $0.688 | $10.00 | $5.50 | 45% |
| GPT-5 miniOpenAI | 400K | $0.250 | $0.163 | $2.00 | $1.30 | 35% |
| GPT-4.1OpenAI | 1M | $2.00 | $1.10 | $8.00 | $4.40 | 45% |
| Claude Haiku 3.5Anthropic | 200K | $0.800 | $0.520 | $4.00 | $2.60 | 35% |
| o4-miniOpenAI | 200K | $1.10 | $0.660 | $4.40 | $2.64 | 40% |
All prices USD per 1M tokens.
Cached input, batch, and long context
These are the line items that quietly decide your bill. Where our discount does not apply, the table says so.
| Model | Cached input (list) | Cached input (yours) | Batch API | Long-context tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 4.1 | $1.50 | $0.750 | Passed through at list | Same discount |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $0.300 | $0.150 | Passed through at list | Same discount |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | $0.100 | $0.060 | Passed through at list | Same discount |
| GPT-5 | $0.125 | $0.069 | Passed through at list | Same discount |
| GPT-5 mini | $0.025 | $0.016 | Passed through at list | Same discount |
| GPT-4.1 | $0.500 | $0.275 | Passed through at list | Same discount |
| Claude Haiku 3.5 | $0.080 | $0.052 | Passed through at list | Same discount |
| o4-mini | $0.275 | $0.165 | Passed through at list | Same discount |
Why batch isn’t discounted. Batch jobs already carry the provider’s own 50% reduction, and our contracted rate is negotiated against standard throughput. We pass batch through at the provider’s list price with no markup and no discount. If your workload is mostly batch, you will not save money with us, and we would rather tell you that here than after you migrate.
Throughput
Rate limits
Tiers are per-key and unlock automatically as you add credit. There is no application and no sales call to move up until the Dedicated tier.
| Tier | Requests / min | Tokens / min | Concurrent | How to upgrade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 20 | 50K | 2 | Add $20 in credit |
| Tier 1 | 500 | 1M | 25 | Add $200 in credit |
| Tier 2 | 2,000 | 5M | 100 | Add $1,000 in credit |
| Tier 3 | 10,000 | 25M | 500 | Talk to us |
| Dedicated | Custom | Custom | Custom | Reserved capacity contract |
Shared or dedicated? Free through Tier 3 draw from a shared pool of capacity we have contracted in advance. Your tier limit is a guaranteed ceiling on what you can request, not a guaranteed reservation of upstream throughput — during an industry-wide spike, a shared-pool request may queue. The Dedicated tier is reserved capacity that is contractually yours and is not pooled with anyone else.
Billing
How you pay
Prepaid credits
You add credit, we draw it down per request at the rates in the table above. There is no monthly invoice, no subscription, and no minimum spend.
We chose prepaid over postpaid deliberately: it caps what you can lose if we fail, and it means we never have to chase anyone for money.
Hitting zero mid-request
An in-flight request always completes — we never truncate a response you are already paying for, even if it takes the balance negative.
The next request returns 402 with the shortfall in the body. Set a low-balance alert and auto-reload in the dashboard and you will not see it.
Refunds and invoicing
Unused credit is refundable to the original payment method within 12 months, minus payment processing fees. Email support and a human replies.
Companies that need a PO, a W-9, net-30 terms, or a countersigned order form should talk to sales — that path exists and is not a fight.
Our pricing commitment
Rates are fixed through [YYYY-MM-DD] under our current provider agreement. If our costs change after that, we will give you 60 days’ written notice before any price change, and your keys keep working at the old rate through the entire notice period.
A price increase never applies to credit you have already purchased. Credit bought at today’s rates is spent at today’s rates, however long it takes you to use it.
Do the arithmetic
What this actually saves you
Assumes a 70/30 input-to-output split and no prompt caching. Cached reads make the gap wider, not narrower.
You’d save
$120/mo
- Direct from provider
- $239.63
- Through lowcostllm
- $119.82
- Discount
- 50% off
Three worked examples
Priced on Claude Sonnet 4.5 at a 70/30 input-to-output split, with no prompt caching applied.
Hobby
5M tokens / mo
A side project with a few hundred users
- Direct
- $33
- With us
- $16.50
−$16.50/mo
Startup
150M tokens / mo
A funded team shipping an AI feature
- Direct
- $990
- With us
- $495
−$495/mo
Scale
2B tokens / mo
Agentic workloads running continuously
- Direct
- $13200
- With us
- $6600
−$6600/mo