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 saved 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 considerations about by accident operating 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 best way I count on AI workloads to work—easy, predictable, and reliable.”
In the present day, we’re rolling out a brand new billing expertise designed to do precisely that.
Why We’re Transferring to Pay as you go Credit
Our aim was easy: create a system that offers customers whole management over prices, quick access to most options, and the power to scale with out friction.
After researching how builders really use the platform—not simply how plans have been “supposed” to work—it grew to become clear that the outdated mannequin (a number of plan tiers, bill cycles, month-to-month minimums, and free quotas) created pointless complexity.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 degree 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 (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 characteristic
- Virtually no characteristic 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 stability
- For instance: “When my stability drops beneath $20”
- Outline the stability you wish to restore to
- For instance: “Carry my stability again as much as $100”
When your stability reaches the brink, Clarifai robotically tops it as much as your chosen quantity—no guide intervention required.
This provides 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
For those who 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 really use, with no minimal costs or fastened month-to-month commitments.
For those who use $5 value 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 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 straight through the Playground or API
Tips on 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 number of core ideas:
- Predictability
No extra guessing what your bill will appear to be 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
Transferring 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 robotically enrolled within the new PAYG plan.
- Present self-serve customers: You may swap to PAYG anytime, or we’ll robotically migrate your account in January
- Enterprise clients: No adjustments to your billing or characteristic 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 alteration is the results of months of person analysis, testing, and suggestions from our neighborhood. And we’re not achieved.
When you have ideas—good or unhealthy—we’d love to listen to them:
Be part of our Discord, attain out to the workforce, or contact help with options.
Your enter straight shapes how we construct Clarifai.
Go Construct One thing Wonderful
Log in and declare your $5 credit score:
http://clarifai.com/login
