Pricing - Fortytwo

Requests are paid from prepaid credits. There is no subscription and no minimum spend.

Prices

Model	Model ID	Input / 1M tokens	Cached input / 1M tokens	Output / 1M tokens
Qwen3.8 27B	`qwen/qwen3.8-27b`	$0.425	$0.085	$2.55

Reasoning tokens are billed as output. They are counted in usage.completion_tokens.
Cached input is the part of the prompt served from the prompt cache. The response reports it in usage.prompt_tokens_details.cached_tokens. Caching is automatic, and writing to the cache is free — see Prompt caching.
There are no other usage charges.

Price changes

A price increase takes effect at least 30 days after notice, or longer where the law requires, and applies only to future usage. Unused purchased credits can be refunded before the increase — see Terms of Service, section 8.

OpenRouter pricing

For requests through OpenRouter or another router, the router sets the price, billing and any cache discount — see Terms of Service, section 1.

What is billed

Input, cached input and the output generated for the request. The candidate answers and intermediate steps of swarm inference are not billed.

How the request ended	Charged
Completed	Input, cached input and output
Refused before it started: any error except `502` and `504`	Nothing
Stopped after it started: the client disconnected, it failed with `502` or `504`, or a stream ended with an `upstream_error` event	Input, and the output generated before it stopped
Stopped, and its usage cannot be determined	Nothing

To cancel a request, close the connection. Generation can continue briefly after that, and the output is charged.
A retry is a new request and is charged separately. There is no idempotency key.

Credits

Buy credits

On the platform, open Credits and press Buy credits.


Amount	$10 to$ 10,000 per purchase, in USD
Payment	Card, through Stripe. Crypto is not accepted
Service fee	A percentage plus a fixed amount, added on top of the credits and fixed when the purchase starts. The balance receives the full amount selected. The fee is not usage and does not count toward spend limits
Before payment	The form shows Usage credits, Service fee, Estimated tax and Total due
Receipt	Emailed by Stripe to your primary email. Also in Top-up history → View
Expiry	Purchased credits do not expire

Card details go directly to Stripe — see Privacy Policy, section 5. Your card issuer can add its own fees.

Auto-reload

Auto-reload buys credits when the balance falls to a threshold. It is off by default.

On Credits, turn on Enable auto-reload.
Set Auto-reload threshold and Top-up amount, and select a saved card.

To stop it, turn off Enable auto-reload. Charges already made stand. Saving a card does not turn on Auto-reload. Each reload charges the card the top-up amount plus the Service fee and any tax. If a charge fails or the bank asks for confirmation, Auto-reload turns off and an email is sent. Removing the selected card also turns it off.

Low balance alerts

Low balance alerts are off by default. On Credits, under Balance notifications, turn on Low balance alerts and set Low balance threshold ($1 or more). One email goes to the verified primary email when the balance falls below the threshold, or at once if it is already below. The alert re-arms when the balance is back at or above it.

When the balance runs out

With no usable credits, a request fails with 429 insufficient_quota. Buying credits clears it. If credits are on hold after a bank dispute, the error is 402 payment_hold — see Errors. Key and account spend limits are on Get access.

Grant and promotional credits

	Purchased credits	Grant and promotional credits
Order of use	After grant and promotional credits	First
Expiry	None	As stated when granted
Refund on account closure	Yes, less outstanding charges	No
Counts toward a tier	Yes	No

Refunds and disputes

Wrong or duplicate charge. Contact support within 60 days of the charge, with the transaction or request ID. This does not limit statutory rights. Refunds go to the original payment method — see Terms of Service, section 8.
Bank dispute. The credits bought with the disputed payment are put on hold, and the card cannot be used for new payments or Auto-reload. The rest of the balance stays available. If the hold leaves no usable credits, requests stop until credits are bought with another card. Repeated disputes can lead to suspension — see Terms of Service, section 8.
Right of withdrawal. Consumers in the EEA and the UK can withdraw within 14 days — see Terms of Service, section 9.

Track spend

Usage shows spend by key and model. Logs shows the cost of each request. Charges are calculated to six decimal places of a dollar and rounded once. Both keep 12 months of history — see Get access.

​Prices

​Price changes

​OpenRouter pricing

​What is billed

​Credits

​Buy credits

​Auto-reload

​Low balance alerts

​When the balance runs out

​Grant and promotional credits

​Refunds and disputes

​Track spend