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# Billing for AI Studio

Krutrim Cloud's **AI Studio** offers access to a diverse catalogue of open-source and in-house AI models for text generation, embeddings, speech, and multimodal use cases. All models are billed **based on usage**, with costs varying depending on the type of input/output and the model in use.

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### Model catalog billing

Each model in AI Studio defines:

* **Billing mode** (Input tokens, Output tokens, Audio minutes, etc.)
* **Unit of pricing** (Per 1M tokens, Per minute, Per hour, etc.)
* **Rate** (in ₹)

You are billed **only for what you use**. Charges are calculated based on usage metrics collected during API calls or console interactions with the models.

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### Model Catalog Pricing

| Model Name                                    | Input Rate (₹)     | Output Rate (₹)    | Unit Type        | Task Type            |
| --------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------ | ---------------- | -------------------- |
| **DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B**             | ₹10.00 / 1M tokens | ₹10.00 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Text Generation      |
| **DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B**              | ₹3.00 / 1M tokens  | ₹3.00 / 1M tokens  | Tokens           | Text Generation      |
| **DeepSeek-R1**                               | ₹11.00 / 1M tokens | ₹16.00 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Text Generation      |
| **Google / Gemma-3-27b-it**                   | ₹8.00 / 1M tokens  | ₹25.00 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Multimodal           |
| **Krutrim / Krutrim-1**                       | ₹16.6 / 1M tokens  | ₹16.6 / 1M tokens  | Tokens           | Text Generation      |
| **Krutrim / Krutrim-2**                       | ₹6.6 / 1M tokens   | ₹6.6 / 1M tokens   | Tokens           | Text Generation      |
| **Krutrim / Krutrim-TTS**                     | N/A                | ₹4.42 / min        | Minutes (output) | Text-to-Speech       |
| **Krutrim / Krutrim-Dhwani**                  | ₹24.00 / hour      | N/A                | Hours (input)    | Speech-to-Text       |
| **Krutrim / Bhasantarit**                     | ₹6.26 / 1M tokens  | N/A                | Tokens (input)   | Text-to-Embedding    |
| **Krutrim / Vyakyarth**                       | ₹6.06 / 1M tokens  | N/A                | Tokens (input)   | Text-to-Embedding    |
| **Krutrim / Chitrapathak**                    | ₹83.6 / 1M tokens  | ₹34.53 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Image-to-Text        |
| **Krutrim / Tokenizer**                       | ₹0.00              | ₹0.00              | Tokens           | Tokenization Utility |
| **Meta / LLaMA-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct**      | ₹14.94 / 1M tokens | ₹14.94 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Image-to-Text        |
| **Meta / LLaMA-3.3-70B-Instruct**             | ₹73.04 / 1M tokens | ₹73.04 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Text Generation      |
| **Meta / LLaMA-4-Maverick-17B-12BE-Instruct** | ₹17.00 / 1M tokens | ₹50.00 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Multimodal           |
| **Microsoft / Phi-4 Reasoning Plus**          | ₹5.00 / 1M tokens  | ₹29.00 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Text Generation      |
| **Mistral / Mistral-7B-v0.2**                 | ₹16.6 / 1M tokens  | ₹16.6 / 1M tokens  | Tokens           | Text Generation      |
| **Qwen / Qwen3-32B**                          | ₹8.00 / 1M tokens  | ₹25.00 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Text Generation      |
| **Qwen / Qwen3-30B-A3B**                      | ₹8.00 / 1M tokens  | ₹25.00 / 1M tokens | Tokens           | Text Generation      |

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### Additional Notes

* **Tokenization logic** varies by model and is handled automatically using the model’s default tokenizer.
* **Speech models** are priced per **minute/hour of audio**, based on the type (TTS or STT).
* **Multimodal models** may count both text and vision tokens.

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### Evaluation Billing

The cost of running **Model Evaluations** and **Performance Evaluations** on the Krutrim platform is the **same as inference** — based on the number of tokens processed.

#### Token-Based Pricing

* You are billed per token used during evaluation.
* There are **no additional fees** for launching or running evaluation jobs.

#### Low Balance Handling

* If your account balance drops below a certain threshold, the platform will **automatically pause evaluation services** until funds are added.

### Fine-Tuning Billing

Krutrim offers transparent and flexible pricing for both **fine-tuning** and **deployment** of custom models. Below is a detailed breakdown of the billing model:

#### Fine-Tuning Pricing

Fine-tuning costs are calculated **per 1 million tokens**, and pricing varies based on the model used.

| Model               | Price (INR) | Unit          |
| ------------------- | ----------- | ------------- |
| Llama-3-8b-instruct | ₹33         | per 1M tokens |

> **Note:** This is **token-based pricing**, ensuring you pay only for the compute resources used during fine-tuning.

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#### Deployment Pricing

Once your model is fine-tuned, you can deploy it on an **NVIDIA H100 GPU**. Pricing is based on actual GPU usage.

| GPU Resource | Price (INR) | Unit         |
| ------------ | ----------- | ------------ |
| NVIDIA H100  | ₹213        | per GPU-hour |

> Deployment pricing **includes inference usage** — you are charged only for the **active duration** of your deployment.

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#### Cost Management Best Practices

* **Optimize Your Dataset**: High-quality, concise datasets reduce token usage and improve training efficiency.
* **Monitor Active Deployments**: Shut down unused deployments to avoid incurring extra GPU charges.
* **Use Checkpoints**: Save checkpoints during training to avoid repeating the entire process in case of interruptions.

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#### Low Balance Handling

If your account balance falls below a defined threshold:

* **Fine-tuning and deployment services will be automatically paused.**
* Resume once sufficient balance is added to the account.

### Where to See This in Console

To see real-time usage and billing:

1. Go to **Billing → Usage → AI Studio**
2. Select the relevant sub-tab:
   * **Model Catalogue**
   * **Fine Tuning**
   * **Deployment**
   * **Evaluation**
3. Use the **date filter** to narrow your view
4. Click **Export** to download usage data