Billing & Credits

CheapAI uses credits across supported voice, audio, music, and image tasks. Some routes expose a dedicated price-check step before task creation.

Credit Packages

starter

$25

1,000,000 credits

90-day option: $30

Lifetime option: $37.5

standard

$90

5,000,000 credits

90-day option: $108

Lifetime option: $135

pro

$170

10,000,000 credits

90-day option: $204

Lifetime option: $255

business

$750

50,000,000 credits

90-day option: $900

Lifetime option: $1125

enterprise

$1300

100,000,000 credits

90-day option: $1560

Lifetime option: $1950

Core Rules

Users buy credit packs once and spend from one shared credit balance.
Credit packs can be purchased with 30-day, 90-day, or lifetime validity.
Task endpoints reserve or estimate credits before work begins.
Per-key daily spend limits can block further usage with 429.
Expired API keys return 401 even if the account still has credits.

See Pricing Policy for exact-vs-estimate behavior by service.

Price-Check Flow

Image generation

Image generation has a dedicated pricing endpoint. Use it before submission when model, resolution, aspect ratio, or reference assets change.

bash

curl -X POST "https://api.cheapaiapi.com/v1i/task/price" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model_id": "bytedance-seedream-4.5",
    "generations_count": 1,
    "model_parameters": { "aspect_ratio": "16:9", "resolution": "2K" },
    "assets": 2
  }'

Checking Balance via API

bash

curl "https://api.cheapaiapi.com/v1/credits" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json"

json

{
  "success": true,
  "credits": 123456
}

Packages Endpoint

The dashboard package selector is backed by the packages endpoint:

http

GET https://api.cheapaiapi.com/v1/packages

What To Show In Your App

Current credit balance
Task-specific estimate before submission when available
Daily cap state per API key
Task status after submission, including the final charged amount