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Stability AI Compute

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platform.stability.ai/pricing · inference API · compute/stability-ai · JSON · compare

Free tier	'Get started with 25 free credits', where '1 credit equals $0.01', so the free allowance is USD 0.25 of API usage. At the listed per-call prices that is 3 images on Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large (6.5 credits), 3 images on Stable Image Ultra (8), 10 on SD 3.5 Flash (2.5), 3 audio generations of up to six minutes on Stable Audio 3.0 (8 credits), or 27 SDXL 1.0 images at the 0.9-credit floor. unit none; metered on wall-clock; one-time-credit
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not applicable
Retention	not applicable
Egress	not stated
Identity	email not published
Limits	volume-quota USD 0.25 of credit is 25 hundredths of a dollar: the largest single useful output is three six-minute audio clips or three Ultra images, and one Creative Upscaler call at 60 credits costs more than two free accounts. source USD 0.25 of credit is 25 hundredths of a dollar: the largest single useful output is three six-minute audio clips or three Ultra images, and one Creative Upscaler call at 60 credits costs more than two free accounts.
Binding	volume-quota USD 0.25 of credit is 25 hundredths of a dollar: the largest single useful output is three six-minute audio clips or three Ultra images, and one Creative Upscaler call at 60 credits costs more than two free accounts.
Interface	rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Tooling	not stated
Composes with	What breaks: the allowance does not renew, and the cheapest useful batch (100 images on SD 3.5 Flash) costs 250 credits, ten times the grant.
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	These are inference credits, not general compute. The free allowance is stated as credits and converted to USD 0.25 by the vendor's own peg, which is why the number is small: this is the weakest free lane in the wave. Not established: expiry of the 25 credits; the page states none.
Evidence rung	documented
Checked	2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-21
Parsed numbers	`$.limits[0].value` limit:volume-quota 60.0 credits

Evidence (3)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	platform.stability.ai/pricing	'Get started with 25 free credits' and '1 credit equals $0.01', quoted from the page's own pricing notes
2026-10-22	platform.stability.ai/pricing	the image table prices 'Stable Image Ultra ... 8', 'Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large ... 6.5', 'Stable Diffusion 3.5 Flash ... 2.5', 'SDXL 1.0 ... From 0.9', quoted
2026-10-22	platform.stability.ai/pricing	the audio table prices 'Stable Audio 3.0 ... Generate up to six minutes ... 8' credits, quoted

More fields (1)

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  "free_tier_kind": "one-time-credit",
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   "gpu_class": null,
   "gpu_count": 0
  }
 }
}

Unknown or withheld values (10)

$.chaining partly-held
$.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