Billing & credits
Prepaid, pay-per-use credits. 1 credit = $1 USD. No subscriptions, no minimums.
How metering works
- We estimate the cost and place a hold on your balance.
- We call the model (with routing + failover).
- We settle to the real usage — refunding the difference to the exact token, or collecting a small top-up where audio is billed on real duration.
The credit balance is the source of truth; failed refunds are queued for reconciliation, so a cent is never silently lost.
Adding credits
Top up in the dashboard with:
- Razorpay — India (UPI, cards, netbanking)
- PayPal / card — worldwide
Credits apply instantly and are shared across every theaimart product — one wallet.
Checking usage
Per-model usage + remaining credits, programmatically:
curl https://api.aix.theaimart.co/usage \
-H "X-API-Key: $AIX_KEY"
Or visit Usage for the dashboard view (tokens, calls and cost per model).
Pricing
Each model has a published price — per-1M-tokens, per-image, or per-minute. You’re billed the model’s price regardless of which provider served the call. See the pricing section.
Data: usage records hold model + token/unit counts + cost only. Your prompts and outputs are never stored.