Instill Credit

The purpose of Instill Credit is easing the adoption of ☁️ Instill Cloud, minimizing the time required to build and set up a pipeline. After setting up your account, you'll get 10,000 monthly credits for free, which can be spent on the following actions:

  • Run your own pipelines, or any public pipeline available on Explore.
  • Execute pre-configured AI components without needing to create accounts or API keys on 3rd party services.

We offer different subscription plans for users that need more monthly credits to fulfil their pipeline run and API consumption needs.

#Model Run

The model credit consumption is calculated as follows: active period * credit pricing.

Here, active period refers to the number of seconds the model takes to process a request, while credit pricing varies based on the hardware used by the model.

The table below lists the available hardware options along with their corresponding credit pricing.

HardwareCredit Price (per second)Credit Price (per hour)
CPU13600
NVIDIA Tesla T427200
NVIDIA L4310800
NVIDIA A1001346800

#Pipeline Run

Each pipeline run will consume 1 credit per component within the pipeline.

Additionally, Instill AI facilitates out-of-the-box configuration for many AI / Application components to consume Instill Credit, meaning you can try out multiple 3rd-party vendors without needing to manually create accounts or API keys with these services. When such components are created, if the selected task and model are supported, you can simply leave setup field blank to consume Instill Credit. For instance, here is how you can setup an OpenAI component to use Instill Credit:


openai-0:
type: openai
input:
model: gpt-4o
prompt: ${variable.prompt}
system-message: You are a helpful assistant.
response-format:
type: text
task: TASK_TEXT_GENERATION

If you instead wish to bring your own key, you'll need to create a connection with your API key in your account settings page. You can then reference this connection in the recipe with the ${connection.<my-connection-id>} syntax:


openai-0:
type: openai
input:
model: gpt-4o
prompt: ${variable.prompt}
system-message: You are a helpful assistant.
response-format:
type: text
# Prerequisite: you have created a connection with the ID "openai-instill-pipelines"
setup: ${connection.openai-instill-pipelines}
task: TASK_TEXT_GENERATION

The following section details the supported AI Tasks & models and their Instill Credit cost per unit.

#Supported AI Tasks and Models

#LLM

VendorModelCredit Cost per 1,000 Input TokensCredit Cost per 1,000 Output TokensCredit Cost per Request
OpenAIOpenAI o1-preview150600
OpenAIOpenAI o1-mini30120
OpenAIGPT-4o50150
OpenAIGPT-4o 2024-08-0625100
OpenAIGPT-4o mini1.56
OpenAIGPT-4300600
OpenAIGPT-4 (32K)6001,200
OpenAIGPT-4 (128K)100300
OpenAIGPT-4 VISION100300
OpenAIGPT-3.5 Turbo515
AnthropicClaude 3.5 Sonnet30150
AnthropicClaude 3 Opus150750
AnthropicClaude 3 Sonnet30150
AnthropicClaude 3 Haiku2.515
CohereCommand-R+30150
CohereCommand-R515
CohereCommand1020
CohereCommand-light36
Mistral AIopen-mixtral-8x22b2060
Mistral AIopen-mixtral-8x7b77
Mistral AIopen-mistral-7b2.52.5
Mistral AIcodestral-latest1030
Mistral AImistral-large-latest40120
Mistral AImistral-small-latest1030
Fireworks AIllama-v3p1-405b-instruct3030
Fireworks AIllama-v3p1-70b-instruct99
Fireworks AIllama-v3p1-8b-instruct22
Fireworks AIllama-v3-70b-instruct99
Fireworks AIllama-v3-8b-instruct22
Fireworks AIfirellava-13b22
Fireworks AIfirefunction-v299
Fireworks AIdeepseek-coder-v2-lite-instruct55
Fireworks AIstarcoder-16b22
Fireworks AIstarcoder-7b22
Fireworks AIphi-3-vision-128k-instruct22
Fireworks AIqwen2-72b-instruct99
Fireworks AImythomax-l2-13b22
Fireworks AIyi-large3030
Groqllama3-groq-70b-8192-tool-use-preview8.98.9
Groqllama3-groq-8b-8192-tool-use-preview1.91.9
Groqllama3-70b-81925.97.9
Groqllama3-8b-81920.50.8
Groqmixtral-8x7b-327682.42.4
Groqgemma2-9b-it22
Groqgemma-7b-it0.70.7
Perplexityllama-3.1-sonar-small-128k-online2250
Perplexityllama-3.1-sonar-large-128k-online101050
Perplexityllama-3.1-sonar-huge-128k-online505050

#Text Embeddings

VendorModelCredit Cost per 1,000 Input Tokens
OpenAIText Embedding 3 Small0.2
OpenAIText Embedding 3 Large1.3
CohereEmbed 31
Mistral AImistral-embed1
Fireworks AInomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.50.08
Fireworks AInomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v10.08
Fireworks AIWhereIsAI/UAE-Large-V10.16
Fireworks AIthenlper/gte-large0.16
Fireworks AIthenlper/gte-base0.08

#Image Generation

VendorModelImage SizeCredit Cost per Image
OpenAIDALL·E 3 Standard1024x1024400
OpenAIDALL·E 3 Standard1024x1792, 1792x1024800
OpenAIDALL·E 3 HD1024x1024800
OpenAIDALL·E 3 HD1024x1792, 1792x10241,200
Stability AISDXL 1.060
Stability AISD 1.6100

#Audio Recognition

VendorModelCredit Cost per Second
OpenAIWhisper1

#Text to Speech

VendorModelCredit Cost per 1M Characters
OpenAITTS 1150
OpenAITTS 1 HD300

#Text Reranking

VendorModelCredit Cost Per 1000 Searches
CohereRerank 320,000

#Get Prospects Emails

VendorCredit Cost Per Email
LeadIQ395

#Next Additions

Subscribe to our Newsletter to keep up to date with the latest tasks, models and vendors that are supported by Instill Credit.

We also plan to leverage Instill Credit to ease data storage and model hosting, stay tuned!

#Organization Credit

Team plans also include monthly Instill Credit for organizations, allowing their members to consume the organization's credit instead of their own.

Users can impersonate an organization and consume its Instill Credit by switching namespaces. Any pipeline accessible by the organization (i.e. any public pipeline or any private pipeline owned by the organization) can be triggered using this method.

Switch to an organization namespace to use its Instill Credit
Switch to an organization namespace to use its Instill Credit

#How can I get more credit?

The amount of monthly Instill Credit of a user or organization depends on their subscription plan.

Additionally, subscribers can purchase extra credit in case the monthly amount doesn't cover their Instill Credit needs. In contrast to monthly credit, purchased credit won't expire at the end of the billing cycle. For that reason, purchased credit will only be consumed only when the subscription credit has been exhausted.

Our roadmap includes more features to cover more complex Instill Credit use cases, such as Credit Auto-billing, where credit is topped up before it is totally exhausted, keeping production environments safe from any potential downtime.