# Pricing

**Pay per token, only for what you use.** No subscriptions, no minimums, no hidden fees.

All prices are in USD per 1 million tokens.

## Intelligence

General reasoning, writing, and vision · 256K context

| Model | Input | Output | Cache write | Cache read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `avelin-fast` | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.38 | $0.03 |
| `avelin-pro` | $1.40 | $4.40 | $1.75 | $0.26 |
| `avelin-ultra` | $2.50 | $12.50 | $3.13 | $0.52 |

## Coding

Software engineering · 1M context — an entire repository in one request

| Model | Input | Output | Cache write | Cache read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `avelin-coding-fast` | $0.30 | $1.20 | $0.38 | $0.03 |
| `avelin-coding-pro` | $1.40 | $4.40 | $1.75 | $0.26 |
| `avelin-coding-ultra` | $2.50 | $12.50 | $3.13 | $0.52 |

## Agentic

Tool calling and autonomous agents · 256K context

| Model | Input | Output | Cache write | Cache read |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `avelin-agentic-fast` | $0.285 | $1.14 | $0.36 | $0.0285 |
| `avelin-agentic-pro` | $1.26 | $3.96 | $1.58 | $0.23 |
| `avelin-agentic-ultra` | $2.38 | $11.88 | $2.98 | $0.49 |

**fast** for volume · **pro** for everyday production · **ultra** for the hardest problems. Not sure? Start with `avelin-pro`. Capabilities and selection guide: [Model Catalog](models/README.md).

**Prompt caching:** repeated prompt prefixes (system prompts, documents, history) are billed once at the *cache write* rate, then at the *cache read* rate on every reuse — roughly 5× below input on the pro and ultra tiers, and 10× below on all three fast tiers.

**Legacy names:** `avelin-coding`, `avelin-coding-plus`, `avelin-coding-architect`, `avelin-agentic`, and `avelin-agentic-high` still work and are billed as their [renamed models](models/README.md#legacy-model-names).

## Audio, images, and embeddings

| Model | What it does | Price |
|---|---|---|
| `bge-m3` | Embeddings for search and RAG | $0.02 per 1M tokens |
| `whisper-large-v3` | Speech-to-text, highest accuracy | $0.006 per minute |
| `whisper-large-v3-turbo` | Speech-to-text, fastest | $0.006 per minute |
| `avelin-stt` | Speech-to-text, streaming-friendly | $0.006 per minute |
| `tts-1` | Text-to-speech, low latency | $0.12 per 1K characters |
| `tts-1-hd` | Text-to-speech, highest quality | $0.24 per 1K characters |
| `avelin-imagegen` | Image generation, standard | $0.03 per image |
| `avelin-imagegen-pro` | Image generation, high quality | $0.075 per image |

## Web Intelligence

Firecrawl-compatible [web access](api/web-scraping.md), billed per request. `crawl` and `extract` are asynchronous jobs, charged once at kickoff.

| Endpoint | Operation | Price per request |
|---|---|---|
| `POST /v2/scrape` | Scrape a single URL | $0.001 |
| `POST /v2/map` | Map a site's links | $0.001 |
| `POST /v2/search` | Web search | $0.005 |
| `POST /v2/crawl` | Start a crawl job | $0.010 |
| `POST /v2/extract` | Start an extract job | $0.005 |

## Estimating costs

1,000 tokens ≈ 750 words. Summarizing a 2,000-word document with `avelin-pro` — roughly 2,700 input and 400 output tokens — costs about **$0.006**, or $5.60 per 1,000 documents.

## Billing

- Metered per token, invoiced monthly with a full breakdown
- Live usage dashboard with budget alerts; every API key can carry its own budget and rate limits
- One price per model — failover to a backup never changes your bill
- No commitments, cancel anytime

## Enterprise and sovereign deployment

Run AVELIN on your own GPUs — on-premises, private cloud, or air-gapped. Unlimited usage under fixed annual licensing, complete data sovereignty, compliance-ready (HIPAA, GDPR, SOX, FedRAMP), continuous model updates with enterprise SLA.

Pricing is tailored to your deployment — **[request a POC](/poc#request)**. Trials available on request.

## Get started

1. Request your API key — **sales@avelin.ai**
2. Point your OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible client at `https://api.avelin.ai` — a [2-line change](api/quickstart.md)
3. Send your first request to `avelin-pro`

Volume pricing and sovereign deployment: **[Request a POC](/poc#request)**