specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: 01.AI
providerId: 01-ai
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: true
tags:
- AI
- LLM
- Yi
- Plans
description: >-
  01.AI publishes pay-as-you-go per-token pricing on the Lingyiwanwu open platform. Yi-Lightning
  is the flagship at approximately $0.14 per million tokens; Yi-Lightning-Lite is cheaper.
  Yi open-source weights are also available for self-hosting.
notes: >-
  Documentation portal is primarily Chinese; rates and exact tiers vary across Yi-Large,
  Yi-Large-Turbo, Yi-Lightning, and Yi-Lightning-Lite. Verify current rates on the Lingyiwanwu
  console.
sources:
- https://platform.lingyiwanwu.com/
- https://x.com/01AI_Yi/status/1845776529185476613
plans:
- id: 01-ai-pay-as-you-go
  name: Pay As You Go
  type: usage
  description: Per-token consumption billed against prepaid balance.
  entries:
  - label: Yi-Lightning Tokens
    name: yi_lightning_tokens
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1000000
    price: '0.14 USD per million tokens'
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Yi-Lightning-Lite Tokens
    name: yi_lightning_lite_tokens
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1000000
    price: see https://platform.lingyiwanwu.com/
    userMultiplied: false
  - label: Yi-Large Tokens
    name: yi_large_tokens
    type: usage
    metric: tokens
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1000000
    price: see https://platform.lingyiwanwu.com/
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Yi-Lightning (flagship MoE)
  - name: Yi-Lightning-Lite
  - name: Yi-Large / Yi-Large-Turbo
  - name: Yi-Vision
- id: 01-ai-self-host
  name: Self-Hosted (Open Weights)
  type: free
  description: 01.AI's Yi open-source weights are available on Hugging Face / GitHub for self-hosting under the Yi license.
  entries:
  - label: Open Weights
    name: open_weights
    type: free
    metric: weights
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: usage
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: '0.00'
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Yi-34B
  - name: Yi-9B
  - name: Yi-6B
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com