generated: '2026-08-11'
method: probed
source: >-
  https://infer.flow7.org/api/public/catalog (HTTP 200, application/json, machine-readable price
  catalog read live 2026-08-11), corroborated by https://infer.flow7.org/docs and
  https://infer.flow7.org/refunds. There is no /pricing page — it 404s; the catalog endpoint IS the
  pricing page.
description: >-
  Infer sells no subscription tiers. It sells prepaid wallet credit against per-token prices that are
  published as a machine-readable document, versioned per price, and locked to a request before it
  runs. The "plans" a buyer chooses between are four PRICE OPTIONS on each model selector, not
  account plans. This is a genuinely unusual and unusually legible commercial surface: the full rate
  card, including per-tier margin floors and retry budgets, is served unauthenticated as JSON.
billing_model: prepaid-wallet (metered, usage-based, no subscription)
currency: USD
unit: per_million_tokens
plan_count: 4
plan_kind: price-option
machine_readable_pricing:
  url: https://infer.flow7.org/api/public/catalog
  status: 200
  media_type: application/json
  authenticated: false
  schema: PublicCatalog in openapi/infer-by-flow7-public-api-openapi.yml
  note: >-
    Returns currency, unit, environment, live_available, a disclosure block, and a models[] array. At
    probe time: 22 models, kinds exact and dynamic, sourced from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google,
    Moonshot AI, OpenAI, Qwen and xAI as reference model labs.
plans:
  - name: Low cost
    selector_suffix: ':low-cost'
    wire_tier: economy
    price: usage-based
    currency: USD
    period: per-request
    best_for: Flexible and background work
    published_range_usd_per_million:
      models: 22
      input: '0.08 - 16.50'
      output: '0.46 - 68.54'
    available_at_probe: 22 of 22 selectors
    source: https://infer.flow7.org/api/public/catalog
  - name: Balanced
    selector_suffix: ':balanced'
    wire_tier: balanced
    price: usage-based
    currency: USD
    period: per-request
    best_for: Most everyday work
    published_range_usd_per_million:
      models: 22
      input: '0.08 - 16.54'
      output: '0.46 - 68.69'
    available_at_probe: 22 of 22 selectors
    source: https://infer.flow7.org/api/public/catalog
  - name: Stable
    selector_suffix: ':stable'
    wire_tier: priority
    price: usage-based
    currency: USD
    period: per-request
    best_for: Continuity through a redundancy-oriented route pool
    published_range_usd_per_million:
      models: 22
      input: '0.09 - 18.04'
      output: '0.50 - 74.92'
    available_at_probe: 22 of 22 selectors
    source: https://infer.flow7.org/api/public/catalog
  - name: Official API
    selector_suffix: ':official'
    wire_tier: official
    price: 1.25x supplier cost
    currency: USD
    period: per-request
    best_for: The model lab's first-party API endpoint
    published_range_usd_per_million:
      models: 17
      input: '0.12 - 12.50'
      output: '0.75 - 62.50'
    available_at_probe: 0 of 17 selectors
    availability_note: >-
      Published but not currently callable — every :official selector returned available=false at
      probe time. Infer states the option "is available only when an exact first-party route has
      passed verification." A published price here is explicitly not a callable route.
    source: https://infer.flow7.org/api/public/catalog
funding:
  first_funding_minimum_usd: 20
  reload_minimum_usd: 50
  processor: Stripe-hosted Checkout; Sold through Link, LLC is merchant of record for Stripe Managed Payments
  infer_checkout_fee: none
  tax: may be added separately by the merchant of record
  credit_availability: after payment is confirmed
  source: https://infer.flow7.org/docs and https://infer.flow7.org/terms
sandbox_credit:
  amount_usd: 0.05
  type: one-time simulated
  cash_value: none
  usable_for_live: false
  source: https://infer.flow7.org/docs
  detail: sandbox/infer-by-flow7-sandbox.yml
charging_mechanics:
  reservation: Maximum estimated cost is held before the request starts.
  settlement: Actual amount charged on completion; the unused remainder is returned to the wallet immediately.
  receipt: Every request produces a receipt_id and a customer_cost_usd in the response relay block.
  cache_pricing: >-
    Three separate published rates per selector — input_per_million_usd,
    cached_input_per_million_usd and cache_write_per_million_usd — plus a request_usd component.
  price_versioning: >-
    Each tier carries a price_version string. Infer's Terms state the recorded price version controls
    an accepted request, so a mid-flight price change cannot reprice work already admitted.
disclosed_margin_fields:
  present: true
  fields: [minimum_margin, target_contribution_margin, retry_budget]
  note: >-
    Worth flagging as a market observation, not a criticism — Infer publishes its own margin floor and
    target contribution margin per selector in the same unauthenticated document as the customer
    price. Almost no commercial API in the catalog exposes this.
market_reference_pricing:
  present: true
  note: >-
    Each tier embeds a market block naming the reference lab, that lab's list price, a dated as_of, a
    source_url, and the computed discount percentages against it. Infer therefore publishes its own
    competitive comparison in machine-readable form.
enterprise_contact_only: false
refund_policy:
  url: https://infer.flow7.org/refunds
  version: '2026-08-08'
  summary: >-
    14-day refund of unused, settled paid credit from the funding transaction. Consumed inference is
    generally final. Refunds return only to the original payment method.
related:
  - rate-limits/infer-by-flow7-rate-limits.yml
  - sandbox/infer-by-flow7-sandbox.yml
  - lifecycle/infer-by-flow7-lifecycle.yml