Pricing — Idlerate

Machines

Free

2 machines. Jobs on your own machines cost no credits. Your first 2 machines stay free.

Unlimited

$4.99/month

or $49.99/year (~17% off). Cancel from the billing portal. An existing Unlimited subscription changes to this price at its next renewal. There is no charge or refund now. Monthly stays monthly, and yearly stays yearly. Unlimited means machines beyond the free two, not unlimited cloud usage. Subscribers get 20,000 bonus credits each month.

Adding a machine beyond those 2 starts a 7-day trial. No card is required. The trial covers the extra machines. It does not add the monthly credit bonus, and it does not keep those extra machines after it ends. After the trial, a paid Unlimited subscription keeps machines beyond the first 2 running and includes the monthly credit bonus. The first 2 keep working either way. Cloud Models stay available with credits on the free plan, during the trial, and on Unlimited.

Credits

Credits are the balance you spend. New accounts get 100 welcome credits after email verification. Welcome credits are spent first, and they do not expire.

A paid Unlimited subscription includes 20,000 bonus credits each month, on the monthly plan and on the yearly plan. Bonus credits are spent after welcome credits. Unused bonus credits carry over for one month, then the unused part expires.

Purchased and earned credits are spent after bonus credits. They do not expire.

Jobs on your own machines cost no credits. Jobs on other people's shared machines spend credits. Cloud jobs spend that same credit balance.

Credit packs

Credit packs in USD. Buy them in the dashboard after you sign in. A subscription is not required.
Pack	Credits	Price
Starter	100,000	$5
Standard	500,000	$22.50
Pro	2,000,000	$80

Cloud Models

Any signed-in account can run available Cloud Models from an agent, the API, or the dashboard. Cloud Models spend credits from your balance. A subscription is not required. No separate provider account or key is required. That is separate from signing in to Idlerate or using an Idlerate API key. With no credits, or fewer credits than the job needs, the job does not run. Buy a credit pack on Credits after you sign in. Unlimited still adds machines beyond the free two and 20,000 bonus credits each month. Those benefits are not included with a credit pack.

Spark, Forge, and Atlas are available now. A model that is not available cannot be run from an agent or from the dashboard.

Pay with Idlerate credits. Cloud usage is measured in tokens—small pieces of text—with separate rates for input and output.

Current rates for the Cloud Models available now.
Model	Input, credits per 1,000 tokens	Output, credits per 1,000 tokens
Spark	12	100
Forge	80	400
Atlas	160	800

A charged job costs at least 50 credits and can cost more than that minimum. The charge follows the input and output rates above. Set a per-run spending cap. The default limits are 20,000 credits a day and 200,000 credits a month. An account's limits can differ, and the per-run cap also limits the charge. A job that fails or is canceled before it produces output is not charged. A job that has produced partial output can be charged.