Constructing AI is difficult 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 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 accident operating out of steadiness in the course of an vital 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.”
Right this moment, 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 objective was easy: create a system that offers customers whole management over prices, easy accessibility 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 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
- Nearly 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 steadiness
- For instance: “When my steadiness drops under $20”
- Outline the steadiness you wish to restore to
- For instance: “Deliver my steadiness again as much as $100”
When your steadiness reaches the brink, Clarifai routinely tops it as much as your chosen quantity—no guide intervention required.
This provides you the associated fee management of prepay with the peace of thoughts of recurring billing.
No extra shock invoices. No extra stopping jobs since you forgot to prime 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 truly use, with no minimal prices or mounted 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 truly construct in 2025: bursts of experimentation, adopted by intervals of optimization and scaling.
A $5 Welcome Present to Assist You Get Began
To make the transition simpler, we’re providing each verified consumer—new or current—a one-time $5 welcome credit score.
You need to use it for nearly something on the platform:
- Spinning up a GPU in Compute Orchestration
- Deploying a mannequin
- Working benchmarks
- Attempting analysis instruments
- Exploring the newest fashions straight through the Playground or API
The 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 rules:
- 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
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 Must Know
- New customers: You’re routinely enrolled within the new PAYG plan.
- Current self-serve customers: You may swap to PAYG anytime, or we’ll routinely migrate your account in January
- Enterprise clients: No modifications to your billing or function entry.
You may proceed to obtain itemized billing information 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 transformation is the results of months of consumer analysis, testing, and suggestions from our neighborhood. And we’re not performed.
When you’ve got 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 recommendations.
Your enter straight shapes how we construct Clarifai.
Go Construct One thing Superb
Log in and declare your $5 credit score:
http://clarifai.com/login
