Constructing AI is tough sufficient. Paying for the compute to run it shouldn’t be.
Over the previous yr, we’ve spoken with 1000’s of builders, researchers, and small groups utilizing Clarifai. We stored listening to the identical two themes:
- Bill-based customers needed extra predictability and fewer “invoice shock” on the finish of the month.
- Pay as you go customers needed extra reliability and fewer issues about by accident working out of stability in the midst of an essential job.
Each teams have been telling us the identical factor:
“Simply give me a billing system that works the way in which I count on AI workloads to work—easy, predictable, and reliable.”
As we speak, we’re rolling out a brand new billing expertise designed to do precisely that.
Why We’re Shifting to Pay as you go Credit
Our objective was simple: create a system that provides customers complete management over prices, quick access to most options, and the power to scale with out friction.
After researching how builders truly use the platform—not simply how plans have been “supposed” to work—it turned clear that the outdated mannequin (a number of plan tiers, bill cycles, month-to-month minimums, and free quotas) created pointless complexity. Customers typically needed to examine plans and commit upfront earlier than they even knew which options or stage of wanted.
We needed to repair that.
So we’re transitioning all self-serve customers to a single, unified Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) mannequin utilizing pay as you go credit.
What’s Altering
1. One Easy Pay-As-You-Go Plan
We’re retiring our legacy self-serve plans (Group, Developer, Important, Skilled) and changing them with a single Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) plan.
What this implies for you:
- No extra month-to-month commitments—you pay just for what you utilize
- No extra deciding between plan tiers to entry function
- Virtually no function gates—most of Clarifai is now accessible out of the field, together with Compute Orchestration with auto-provisioned GPUs
- A clearer, extra constant expertise for everybody
This shift aligns with our imaginative and prescient: let customers attempt the platform freely, discover highly effective capabilities, and solely pay for what they really use.
2. Pay as you go Credit + Auto-Recharge = Predictability
With PAYG, you add credit upfront and use them throughout the platform—coaching, inference, workflows, Compute Orchestration, and extra.
To make sure reliability, we’ve additionally launched Auto-Recharge, which helps you to:
- Set a minimal stability
- For instance: “When my stability drops under $20”
- Outline the stability you wish to restore to
- For instance: “Convey my stability again as much as $100”
When your stability reaches the edge, Clarifai mechanically tops it as much as your chosen quantity—no handbook intervention required.
This provides you the fee management of prepay with the peace of thoughts of recurring billing.
No extra shock invoices. No extra stopping jobs since you forgot to high up.
3. Decrease Payments for Many Customers
If you happen to have been beforehand on a plan with a month-to-month minimal (just like the $30 Important plan), that minimal is now gone.
You’ll now pay just for the compute you truly use, with no minimal costs or mounted month-to-month commitments.
If you happen to use $5 price of tokens or GPU time this month, you pay $5—nothing extra.
This brings our billing mannequin nearer to how builders truly construct in 2025: bursts of experimentation, adopted by durations of optimization and scaling.
A $5 Welcome Reward to Assist You Get Began
To make the transition simpler, we’re providing each verified person—new or current—a one-time $5 welcome credit score.
You should use it for nearly something on the platform:
- Spinning up a GPU in Compute Orchestration
- Deploying a mannequin
- Operating benchmarks
- Making an attempt analysis instruments
- Exploring the newest fashions instantly through the Playground or API
The best way to declare your $5 credit score:
- Log in
- Click on Declare Credit score
- Confirm your telephone quantity
- Begin constructing
Good to know:
- Welcome credit are promotional and expire 30 days after they’re claimed
- Paid credit by no means expire
Why This Issues
This new billing mannequin is constructed round a number of core ideas:
- Predictability
No extra guessing what your bill will appear like on the finish of the month. - Flexibility
Strive something on the platform—particularly highly effective GPU-backed workloads—with out selecting a plan first. - Sustainability
Shifting away from recurring free quotas towards one-time welcome credit helps us keep a high-quality platform and reinvest in options you depend on. - Ease of use
A single plan means fewer choices and extra constructing.
What You Have to Know
- New customers: You’re mechanically enrolled within the new PAYG plan.
- Present self-serve customers: You’ll be able to change to PAYG anytime, or we’ll mechanically migrate your account in January
- Enterprise prospects: No modifications to your billing or function entry.
You will proceed to obtain itemized billing data in your account. Expenses happen when credit are bought or topped up, and utilization is deducted out of your pay as you go stability—so there isn’t any end-of-month bill for utilization.
We’re Listening
This modification is the results of months of person analysis, testing, and suggestions from our group. And we’re not executed.
In case you have ideas—good or unhealthy—we’d love to listen to them:
Be a part of our Discord, attain out to the group, or contact help with solutions.
Your enter instantly shapes how we construct Clarifai.
Go Construct One thing Wonderful
Log in and declare your $5 credit score:
http://clarifai.com/login