Pricing
Pensyve Cloud uses pure pay-as-you-go pricing. No subscriptions, no tiers, no per-seat fees. You pay for operations, and every account gets a free monthly allowance.
Operation Tiers
| Tier | Price | Free/Month | What Counts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $0.002/op | 1,000 | remember, recall, forget, consolidate — all text-based operations |
| Multimodal | $0.005/op | 50 | Image memory (Florence-2) and code memory (UniXcoder) — embedding + storage + retrieval |
| Extraction | $0.01/op | 25 | LLM-powered fact, entity, and relation extraction from text |
Why Three Tiers?
Not all operations cost the same to run:
- Standard operations use GTE-Small embeddings (384d) and SQLite/Postgres queries — lightweight and fast.
- Multimodal operations run specialized ONNX models (Florence-2 at ~230 MB, UniXcoder at ~125 MB) — 5–10× more compute per operation.
- Extraction operations invoke LLM inference for each call — the highest compute cost in the system.
You only pay for what you use. An agent doing pure text recall never pays multimodal or extraction prices.
Examples
| Use Case | Monthly Usage | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Personal agent | 800 standard ops | $0.00 (under free tier) |
| Development team | 5,000 standard + 200 multimodal | $8.00 + $0.75 = $8.75 |
| Production agent | 50,000 standard + 2,000 multimodal + 500 extraction | $98 + $9.75 + $4.75 = $112.50 |
| Enterprise pipeline | 500,000 standard + 10,000 multimodal + 5,000 extraction | $998 + $49.75 + $49.75 = $1,097.50 |
Free Tier
Every account gets monthly free operations:
- 1,000 standard — enough for most personal and development use
- 50 multimodal — enough to try image and code memory
- 25 extraction — enough to experiment with LLM extraction
Free operations reset on the 1st of each month. No credit card required to get started.
Billing
Billing is handled by Stripe. You'll be asked to add a payment method when you exceed the free tier. Usage is metered in real time — check the Billing page for current usage and estimated costs.
Invoices are generated monthly. All prices are in USD.
Open Source
The Pensyve engine is Apache 2.0 licensed. You can always run it yourself for free — the cloud is for teams that want managed infrastructure, multi-tenant isolation, and zero operational overhead.