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Subscription Plans & API Pricing

End-to-end reference for ALwrity's usage-based subscription tiers, API cost configuration, and plan-specific limits. All data is sourced from backend/services/subscription/pricing_service.py.

Subscription Plans

Legend: ∞ = Unlimited. Limits reset at the start of each billing cycle.

Plan Price (Monthly / Yearly) AI Text Generation Calls* Token Limits (per provider) Key API Limits Video Generation Monthly Cost Cap Highlights
Free $0 / $0 100 Gemini • 50 Mistral (legacy enforcement) 100K Gemini tokens 20 Tavily • 20 Serper • 10 Metaphor • 10 Firecrawl • 5 Stability • 100 Exa Not included $0 Basic content generation & limited research
Basic $29 / $290 10 unified LLM calls (Gemini + OpenAI + Anthropic + Mistral combined) 20K tokens each (Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral) 200 Tavily • 200 Serper • 100 Metaphor • 100 Firecrawl • 5 Stability • 500 Exa 20 videos/mo $50 Full content generation, advanced research, basic analytics
Pro $79 / $790 5K Gemini • 2.5K OpenAI • 1K Anthropic • 2.5K Mistral 5M Gemini • 2.5M OpenAI • 1M Anthropic • 2.5M Mistral 1K Tavily • 1K Serper • 500 Metaphor • 500 Firecrawl • 200 Stability • 2K Exa 50 videos/mo $150 Premium research, advanced analytics, priority support
Enterprise $199 / $1,990 ∞ across all LLM providers ∞ ∞ across every research/media API ∞ $500 White-label, dedicated support, custom integrations

*The Basic plan now enforces a unified ai_text_generation_calls_limit of 10 requests across all LLM providers. Legacy per-provider columns remain for analytics dashboards but do not control enforcement.

Plan Feature Notes

  • Video Generation: Powered by Hugging Face tencent/HunyuanVideo ($0.10 per request). Plan limits are shown above.
  • Image Generation: Stability AI billed at $0.04/image. Limits shown under “Key API Limits”.
  • Research APIs: Tavily, Serper, Metaphor, Exa, and Firecrawl are individually rate-limited per plan.
  • Cost Caps: monthly_cost_limit hard stops spend at $50 / $150 / $500 for paid tiers. Enterprise caps are adjustable via support.

Provider Pricing Matrix

Gemini 2.5 & 1.5 (Google)

  • gemini-2.5-pro — $0.00000125 input / $0.00001 output per token ($1.25 / $10 per 1M tokens)
  • gemini-2.5-pro-large — $0.0000025 / $0.000015 per token (large context)
  • gemini-2.5-flash — $0.0000003 / $0.0000025 per token
  • gemini-2.5-flash-audio — $0.000001 / $0.0000025 per token
  • gemini-2.5-flash-lite — $0.0000001 / $0.0000004 per token
  • gemini-2.5-flash-lite-audio — $0.0000003 / $0.0000004 per token
  • gemini-1.5-flash — $0.000000075 / $0.0000003 per token
  • gemini-1.5-flash-8b — $0.0000000375 / $0.00000015 per token
  • gemini-1.5-pro — $0.00000125 / $0.000005 per token
  • gemini-1.5-pro-large — $0.0000025 / $0.00001 per token
  • gemini-embedding — $0.00000015 per input token
  • gemini-grounding-search — $35 per 1,000 requests after the free tier

OpenAI (estimates — update when official pricing changes)

  • gpt-4o — $0.0000025 input / $0.00001 output per token
  • gpt-4o-mini — $0.00000015 input / $0.0000006 output per token

Anthropic

  • claude-3.5-sonnet — $0.000003 input / $0.000015 output per token

Hugging Face / Mistral (GPT-OSS-120B via Groq)

Pricing is configurable through environment variables: 

HUGGINGFACE_INPUT_TOKEN_COST=0.000001   # $1 per 1M tokens
HUGGINGFACE_OUTPUT_TOKEN_COST=0.000003  # $3 per 1M tokens
Models covered: openai/gpt-oss-120b:groq, gpt-oss-120b, and default (fallback).

Search, Image, and Video APIs

  • Tavily — $0.001 per search
  • Serper — $0.001 per search
  • Metaphor — $0.003 per search
  • Exa — $0.005 per search (1–25 results)
  • Firecrawl — $0.002 per crawled page
  • Stability AI — $0.04 per image
  • Video Generation (HunyuanVideo) — $0.10 per video request

Updating Pricing & Plans

  1. Initial Seed — python backend/scripts/create_subscription_tables.py creates plans and pricing.
  2. Env Overrides — Hugging Face pricing refreshes from HUGGINGFACE_* vars every boot.
  3. Scripts & Maintenance — Use backend/scripts/ utilities (e.g., update_basic_plan_limits.py, cap_basic_plan_usage.py) to roll forward changes.
  4. Direct DB Edits — Modify subscription_plans or api_provider_pricing tables for emergency adjustments.

Cost Examples

Scenario Calculation Cost
Gemini 2.5 Flash (1K input / 500 output tokens) (1,000 × 0.0000003) + (500 × 0.0000025) $0.00155
Tavily Search 1 request × $0.001 $0.001
Hugging Face GPT-OSS-120B (2K in / 1K out) (2,000 × 0.000001) + (1,000 × 0.000003) $0.005
Video Generation (Basic plan) 1 request × $0.10 $0.10 (counts toward 20-video quota)

Enforcement & Monitoring

  1. Middleware estimates usage and calls UsageTrackingService.track_api_usage.
  2. UsageService.enforce_usage_limits validates the request before the downstream provider call.
  3. When a limit would be exceeded, the API returns 429 with upgrade guidance.
  4. The Billing Dashboard (/billing) shows real-time usage, cost projections, provider breakdowns, renewal history, and usage logs.

Additional Resources

Last Updated: November 2025