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
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
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
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
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.