Pricing

Published prices. Prepaid wallet. No new subscription.

Every number on this page is read from the same model registry that answers GET /v1/models. Measured reliability, latency and cache hit rates: public stats. Prices are quoted in USD per 1M tokens. Card and mobile money top-ups are both charged in KES at KES 133 = $1 and credit the USD wallet. Agents can pay per call in USDC on Base with x402.

$0.5 signup credit $1.0 minimum top-up Existing subscriptions honored Effective 2026-11-04
Chat models

Current rates.

Input, cached input and output are itemised. Cached input never costs more than fresh input.

ModelFamilyInput / 1MCached / 1MOutput / 1MContext
Deepseek V4.1 Flash
deepseek-v4.1-flash
deepseek $0.05 $0.0075 $0.15 1.0M Details
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017
deepseek $0.05 $0.0075 $0.15 1.0M Details
Deepseek V4.1 Flash 0731
deepseek-v4-flash-0731
deepseek $0.05625 $0.01125 $0.17 1.0M Details
GLM 5.3 Flash
glm-5.3-flash
glm $0.155 $0.08 $0.49 0.31M Details
Kimi K3
kimi-k3
kimi $2.1 $0.6 $10.5 1.06M Details
Step 5 Preview
step-5-preview
stepfun $1.25 same as input $3.3 1.0M Details
MiMo V2.6 Pro
mimo-v2.6-pro
mimo $0.5 $0.012 $1.0 1.0M Details
DeepSeek V4 Flash (ModelArk)
deepseek-v4-flash-ark
deepseek $0.55 $0.0175 $1.65 1.0M Details
Gemini 4 Argon
gemini-4-argon
gemini $2.5 same as input $12.0 1.0M Details
GLM 5.3
glm-5.3
glm $1.05 $0.55 $3.35 0.31M Details
GLM 5.2
glm-5.2
glm $0.75 $0.55 $1.65 0.25M Details
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
nvidia-nemotron-3.5-super-vl
nvidia $0.5 same as input $1.25 1.0M Details
Qwen 3.8 27B
qwen3.8-27b
Qwen $0.045 $0.045 $0.35 0.96M Details
DeepSeek V4 Pro (ModelArk)
deepseek-v4-pro-ark
deepseek $1.65 $0.055 $4.95 1.0M Details
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (ModelArk)
deepseek-v4.1-flash-ark
deepseek $0.1875 $0.00375 $0.75 1.0M Details
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Economy — free window
deepseek-v4-1-flash-economy-free
deepseek $0.0 same as input $0.0 1.0M Details
fikra-pro-20b
fikra-pro-20b
Fikra $0.2 same as input $0.2 0.12M Details
fikra-pro-120b
fikra-pro-120b
Fikra $0.3 same as input $0.3 0.12M Details
fikra-qwen-27b
fikra-qwen-27b
Fikra $0.045 same as input $0.35 0.25M Details
fikra-qwen-max
fikra-qwen-max
Fikra $6.0 same as input $12.0 1.0M Details
fikra-auto
fikra-auto
Fikra $0.045 same as input $0.35 0.25M Details
fikra-auto-pro
fikra-auto-pro
Fikra $6.0 same as input $12.0 1.0M Details
fikra-code-35b
fikra-code-35b
Fikra $0.045 same as input $0.33 0.25M Details

Repeated prompt prefixes are billed at the cached rate. Cached input can never cost more than fresh input.

Utility models

Embeddings, speech and media.

ModelWhat it doesRate
Fikra Speech-to-Text
fikra-stt
Transcribe supported audio into text via the /v1/audio/transcriptions endpoint. $0.001 / minute
MiniMax H3 Video
minimax-h3
Text-to-video and image-to-video generation. 4-15 second clips, 1080p, first-frame image support. Billed per finished generation. $0.5 / generation
Fikra Image
fikra-image
Text-to-image generation in the OpenAI Images API shape. Billed per finished image. $0.01 / generation
Fikra Text-to-Speech
fikra-tts
Generate natural speech from text via the /v1/audio/speech endpoint. $25.0 / 1M characters
Fikra Embeddings
fikra-embed
Generate embeddings for semantic search, retrieval and RAG via the /v1/embeddings endpoint. $0.05 / 1M tokens
How billing works

One wallet. One price list.

01

Start with credit

A new account gets $0.5 in credit. A first top-up of at least $1.0 activates paid limits.

02

Use any model

Requests deduct from the wallet in real time. There is one published rate per model. No seat fee.

03

Scale or stop

Paid accounts get 3,000 requests/minute, 250k requests/day, no token ceilings. There is no new subscription to cancel.

Payment rails

  • Humans: card or mobile money through Paystack. Both are charged in KES.
  • Settlement: KES for card and mobile money, at KES 133 = $1. The dashboard shows the exact KES amount before payment.
  • Agents: x402 with USDC on Base, per request, without a card.
  • Pricing: USD per 1M tokens, so rates are comparable with the rest of the market.

Subscriptions

New accounts are prepaid. Existing subscriptions remain active and are honored; they are managed from the dashboard. Public pricing does not sell new subscriptions.

Legacy plans are managed in the dashboard. Public pricing sells prepaid credit only, because that is what the billing system creates for new accounts.

See the change log ->
Limits

One published rate-limit table.

TierRequests / minuteRequests / dayTokens / minuteTokens / day
Unpaid30300100k1M
Paid3,000250,000nonenone

These are the limits enforced in code. Volume accounts can request a custom request quota. Limits docs.

Questions

The parts buyers ask about.

Are subscriptions still available?

New accounts are prepaid. Existing subscriptions remain active and are honored. They are managed from the dashboard. Public pricing does not sell a new subscription.

Why are token prices in USD but the checkout in KES?

USD per 1M tokens keeps the price comparable across the market. Card and mobile money checkouts are charged in KES at KES 133 = $1, because KES processing is faster, cheaper and more reliable locally. The wallet is credited in USD, and the dashboard previews the exact KES charge before you pay. Agents can avoid card settlement entirely with x402 USDC.

Is cached input cheaper?

Yes, when the model publishes a cached rate. It can never be higher than the fresh input rate. If a provider does not support caching, cached tokens bill at the fresh rate.

Which provider serves a model?

Each model page lists the upstream family and the retention note that applies. Fikra routes to third-party inference providers; it does not own GPUs.

Do you offer an SLA?

No contractual SLA on the self-serve plan. Uptime and incidents are published on the status page. Enterprise terms are separate. See the trust centre.

Where is the machine-readable price list?

pricing.md, GET /v1/models and the llms.txt index. The website table reads from the same registry.