Billing
How accounts are charged, the two billing modes Socaity uses, and where to find current rates.
Free sign-up credit
Every new account starts with 15 EUR in free credits: no card required. Calls draw down this prepaid balance.
Pay only for what runs
No charge for cold starts, queue time, or failed executions. Idle serverless services bill nothing.
Prepaid balance
You keep a prepaid EUR balance and we bill it per inference-second as your calls run. Top up from the dashboard whenever it runs low.
Socaity charges in two ways. You can use a model on demand, or you can deploy your own service and pay for the compute it runs on. Live rates per service are at socaity.ai/Pricing : this page covers the conceptual model.
AI Models (MaaS)
Call any model in the catalog and pay per call from a prepaid EUR balance. No subscription required.
Serverless hosting
Deploy your own service that scales to zero. You pay per active second of compute while it runs.
Dedicated hosting
Reserve an always-on server. Pricing and dashboard deploy are coming soon.
| Mode | How it's measured | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| MaaS: pay-per-use | A prepaid EUR balance is drawn down per API call, billed by the unit the service shows (per second, per image, per 1k tokens). New accounts start with 15 EUR free. | Calling models on demand without deploying anything. The default for most Socaity-hosted models. |
| Hosting: Serverless | Per active second of compute. The service scales to zero when idle, so idle time, queue time, and failed runs are not billed. | Your own deployed services with bursty or unpredictable traffic. |
| Hosting: Dedicated | Coming soon; pricing not yet published. | Steady, high-volume workloads that need predictable latency. Deploy from the dashboard is coming soon. |
Subscription tiers sit alongside the usage modes above. A tier sets how many private serverless deployment slots you get. Every tier still includes MaaS pay-per-use access, so a subscription is never required to call a model.
| Tier | Price | Max private serverless |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 EUR | 1 |
| Plus | 9.99 EUR / mo | 3 |
| Pro | 19.99 EUR / mo | 10 |
| Ultimate | 39.99 EUR / mo | 100 |
All subscriptions include MaaS pay-per-use access.
Current tier prices and what each includes are at socaity.ai/Pricing.
Hosting cost depends on the GPU you pick and the deployment shape. Serverless bills per active second, while dedicated pricing is not yet published. The full per-GPU rate card is at socaity.ai/Pricing.
Navigate to Account → Billing on the dashboard to see your current balance, usage history, and per-service breakdown.
Top up your balance from the billing dashboard.
Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. Charged immediately.