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Pika Compute

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pika.art/pricing · inference API · compute/pika · JSON · compare

Free tier	A USD 0 plan exists but carries no credit: the comparison table prints 'Monthly credits \| 0 - packs only' for the free column against 900 for the USD 10 plan and 3,150 for USD 35. The free column does include 'No watermark: Yes' and 'Parallel video generations 2', and excludes 'Commercial license' and 'Priority queue'. Credit packs are sold separately and 'can't be used with the API, iOS app, or old.pika.art'. Published generation costs: 'Seedance 2.5 Video - 720p - 5s 122' credits, 'Wan 3.0 Video - 720p - 5s 33', 'Nano Banana 2 Images - 1 image - 1K 8', 'GPT Image 2.5 Images - 1 image - 1K 2'. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none-published
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	volume-quota zero monthly credits: a free account generates nothing until it buys a pack, so the binding constraint is the first purchase rather than any rate or cap, and the cheapest image at 2 credits means even a pack is spent in hundreds of images rather than thousands. source zero monthly credits: a free account generates nothing until it buys a pack, so the binding constraint is the first purchase rather than any rate or cap, and the cheapest image at 2 credits means even a pack is spent in hundreds of images rather than thousands.
Binding	volume-quota zero monthly credits: a free account generates nothing until it buys a pack, so the binding constraint is the first purchase rather than any rate or cap, and the cheapest image at 2 credits means even a pack is spent in hundreds of images rather than thousands.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	the free account is a shell for buying packs, so it composes with nothing: no API access on packs, no commercial licence, and no recurring grant. What breaks: the absence of any allowance, which makes Pika the clearest paid-only entry.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	These are inference credits, not general compute. Pika is widely listed in 'free credits' round-ups; on 2026-10-22 its own comparison table gives the free column zero monthly credits. The record exists as a refutation of that listing. Not established: whether a new account receives a one-time promotional grant that the table does not show; nothing on the page states one.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:volume-quota 2.0 credits

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	pika.art/pricing	the comparison table prints 'Monthly credits \| 0 - packs only \| 900 \| 3,150 \| 8,550 and up' across the four plan columns, quoted
2026-10-22	pika.art/pricing	'Price / mo \| $0 \| $10 \| $35 \| $95-$880' with 'No watermark \| Yes \| Yes \| Yes \| Yes' and 'Commercial license \| No \| No \| Yes \| Yes', quoted
2026-10-22	pika.art/pricing	generation costs 'Seedance 2.5 Video - 720p - 5s 122' credits and 'GPT Image 2.5 Images - 1 image - 1K 2' credits, quoted
2026-10-22	pika.art/pricing	'Top-up credits are only for Pika Create on pika.art and MCP on pika.art/mcp. They can't be used with the API, iOS app, or old.pika.art', quoted

More fields (1)

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 "wave2": {
  "class": "paid-only",
  "free_tier_kind": "none-published",
  "shape": {
   "vcpu": null,
   "ram_gib": null,
   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": 0
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (9)

$.egress.metered egress-unknown
$.egress.terms not-stated
$.identity_cost.detail process
$.per_object_cap.notes process
$.per_object_cap.stated not-applicable
$.reliability_note none-observed
$.retention.notes process
$.retention.stated not-applicable
$.tooling not-stated