Constructing AI is difficult sufficient. Paying for the compute to run it shouldn’t be.
Over the previous 12 months, 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 wished extra predictability and fewer “invoice shock” on the finish of the month.
- Pay as you go customers wished extra reliability and fewer considerations about by chance working out of steadiness in the midst of an vital job.
Each teams had been telling us the identical factor:
“Simply give me a billing system that works the best way I count on AI workloads to work—easy, predictable, and reliable.”
Right this moment, 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 easy: create a system that provides customers whole management over prices, quick access to most options, and the flexibility to scale with out friction.
After researching how builders really use the platform—not simply how plans had been “supposed” to work—it grew to become clear that the previous mannequin (a number of plan tiers, bill cycles, month-to-month minimums, and free quotas) created pointless complexity. Customers usually needed to evaluate plans and commit upfront earlier than they even knew which options or degree of wanted.
We wished 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 (Neighborhood, 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 employ
- 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 strive 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 steadiness
- For instance: “When my steadiness drops beneath $20”
- Outline the steadiness you wish to restore to
- For instance: “Carry my steadiness again as much as $100”
When your steadiness reaches the brink, Clarifai routinely tops it as much as your chosen quantity—no handbook intervention required.
This offers you the price 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 had 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 really use, with no minimal expenses or fastened 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 really 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 consumer—new or present—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 by way of the Playground or API
Learn how to declare your $5 credit score:
- Log in
- Click on Declare Credit score
- Confirm your cellphone 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 couple of core ideas:
- Predictability
No extra guessing what your bill will appear like on the finish of the month. - Flexibility
Attempt 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 preserve 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 routinely enrolled within the new PAYG plan.
- Current self-serve customers: You possibly can swap to PAYG anytime, or we’ll routinely migrate your account in January
- Enterprise prospects: No modifications to your billing or function entry.
You may proceed to obtain itemized billing data on your account. Prices happen when credit are bought or topped up, and utilization is deducted out of your pay as you go steadiness—so there is not any end-of-month bill for utilization.
We’re Listening
This variation is the results of months of consumer analysis, testing, and suggestions from our group. And we’re not finished.
If in case you have ideas—good or dangerous—we’d love to listen to them:
Be a part of our Discord, attain out to the workforce, or contact assist with recommendations.
Your enter instantly shapes how we construct Clarifai.
Go Construct One thing Superb
Log in and declare your $5 credit score:
http://clarifai.com/login
