Pricing
This topic describes the billing items, billing methods, and prices of available AI capabilities on iFLYTEK Open Platform.
Note
AI capabilities on iFLYTEK Open Platform uses the following billing rules:
If you adopt the pay-as-you-go billing method, you are charged on a daily basis based on the standard billing rules of iFLYTEK Open Platform. Your consumption on the current day is billed on the next day. Therefore, you must keep your account balance sufficient to avoid overdue payments that may affect service use.
The free trial allows you to use only specified AI capabilities with a limited duration. To improve the processing capability of a speech service, we recommend that you upgrade the service to Commercial Edition or purchase a resource plan for the service based on your business requirements.
Notice
If iFLYTEK finds any user repeatedly uses the free trial with multiple iFLYTEK Open Platform accounts, iFLYTEK Open Platform is entitled to take appropriate measures without notifying the user in advance. The user shall be responsible for the consequences that arise from the violation.
Billing items
The billing system bills you based on the service usage for processing speech or text data and the usage of additional features or resources of AI capabilities available on iFLYTEK Open Platform.
Processing of speech or text data
Service | Billing item | Description |
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Short Form ASR | Number of times the service is called | You can upgrade the service to Commercial Edition and use the service in either pay-as-you-go mode or subscribe-to-a-resource-package mode. |
Online Text to Speech | Number of times the service is called | You can upgrade the service to Commercial Edition and use the service in either pay-as-you-go mode or subscribe-to-a-resource-package mode. |
Machine Translation | Number of characters consumed | You can upgrade the service to Commercial Edition and use the service in either pay-as-you-go mode or subscribe-to-a-resource-package mode. |
Pronunciation Assessment | Number of times the service is called | You can upgrade the service to Commercial Edition and use the service in either pay-as-you-go mode or subscribe-to-a-resource-package mode. |
Additional features or resources
Feature or Resource | Description |
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Text to Speech speaker customization | Allows you to train a custom voice model using your own studio-quality audio recordings to create a unique voice. Currently only Chinese Mandarin is supported. |
Billing methods and prices
Pay-as-you-go
Pay as you go billing method is billed based on the standard price when you do not buy a resource package or your resource package is used up.
Service | Standard Unit Price |
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Short Form ASR | 1.40 USD/ thousand service calls |
Online Text to Speech | 1.40 USD/ thousand service calls |
Machine Translation | 0.000024 Dollar/character (total 24 Dollars/million characters) |
Pronunciation Assessment | 0.003 Dollar/service calls(total 30 Dollars/10 thousand service calls) |
Subscribe to a Resource Package
Tiered pricing is offered with different resource capacity. The greater the volume, the greater the discount rate. There are two resource package provided. One is based on service calls/ characters, the other is based on concurrent channels.
Based on service calls/characters
Service | Billing Item | Free Package | Package A | Package B | Package C |
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Short Form ASR | Number of service calls | 100 thousand | 1 million | 5 million | 10 million or above |
List Price | Free | $1,400 | $7,000 | $14,000 | |
Validity Period | 3 Months | 1 year | 1 year | 1 year | |
Discount Rate | N/A | N/A | 5% off | 10% off | |
Discounted Price | Free | $1,400.00 | $6,650.00 | $12,600.00 | |
Price/Thousand service calls | Free | $1.40 | $1.33 | $1.26 | |
Online Text to Speech | Number of service calls | 100 thousand | 1 million | 5 million | 10 million or above |
List Price | Free | $1,400 | $7,000 | $14,000 | |
Validity Period | 3 Months | 1 year | 1 year | 1 year | |
Discount Rate | N/A | N/A | 5% off | 10% off | |
Discounted Price | Free | $1,400.00 | $6,650.00 | $12,600.00 | |
Price/Thousand service calls | Free | $1.40 | $1.33 | $1.26 | |
Machine Translation | Characters | 1 million | 1 million | 20 million | 100 million or above |
Pricing | Free | $12 | $220 | $1,000 | |
Validity Period | 3 months | 1 year | 1 year | 1 year | |
Price/(million characters) | Free | $12 | $11 | $10 | |
Pronunciation Assessment | Service Calls | 100 thousand | 100 thousand | 200 thousand | 1 million or above |
Pricing | Free | $150 | $280 | $1,300 | |
Validity Period | 3 months | 1 year | 1 year | 1 year | |
Price/(10 thousand service calls) | Free | $15 | $14 | $13 |
Note
- Free trial
The following rules on the use of the free trial have been applied since March 1, 2020:
The trial is free of charge. The billing policy may be subject to changes.
We provide free 3 months quota of 100,000 service calls of the Short Form ASR, Online TTS, Pronunciation Assessment services and 3 months quota of 1,000,000 characters of Machine Translation service for individual accounts.
We provide free 3 months quota of 200,000 service calls of the Short Form ASR, Online TTS, Pronunciation Assessment services and 3 months quota of 1,000,000 characters of Machine Translation service for enterprise accounts. To verify your enterprise account and claim extra service calls, you can simply click “apply for more “button and make a request in the console or contact our sales.
During free trial you can only send a maximum of five concurrent requests. If you would like to increase your concurrent channels, please upgrade to the commercial edition.
Billing details of additional features and resources
Online Text to Speech speaker customization
The price of this service varies with the business scenarios, data volume, speaker types, and possession of intellectual property rights. Therefore, no unified quotation is offered.
If you need to use this service, contact us at openplatform@iflytek.com. The relevant responsible person will follow up and offer a quotation after a detailed discussion with you.