Pricing / Models / usage-based

Usage Based Pricing Model

A pricing model describes how commercial value is charged. It stays separate from route type, purchase track, direct plan rows, and pricing owner boundaries.

4 formal tools · 7 plan rows

Model definition

The model label is a compact commercial fact. It should not imply quality, affordability, ranking, or buyer fit.

Definition

Cost scales with measured consumption such as tokens, requests, minutes, jobs, compute, or storage.

Use when

The official pricing source defines meters or usage units as the primary charging basis.

Do not use when

Usage limits exist only as plan caps inside a subscription or enterprise plan.

Route patterns

These route links show where this commercial model appears in the current records, plus canonical route patterns when current data is still empty.

Route types in current records

Observed access paths

Api Usage Enterprise Sales Self Hosted Model Api

Canonical route patterns

Expected route contexts

Api Usage Model Api Marketplace

Tools using this model

Tool rows expose model, route, plan, and freshness fields without turning them into recommendations.

tool	primary route	route types	free access	plans	pricing checked
GPT Image gpt-image	Model Api	Model Api	Not verified	2	2026-05-07
Hugging Face Inference Endpoints hugging-face-inference-endpoints	Api Usage	Enterprise SalesApi Usage	Not verified	1	2026-05-06
Nano Banana nano-banana	Model Api	Model Api	Not verified	1	2026-05-07
Unstructured unstructured	Api Usage	Self HostedEnterprise SalesApi UsageApi Usage	Free plan	3	2026-05-06

Evidence requirements

Publication-ready pricing facts need official evidence and freshness. Direct plan rows are only stored when the current entity owns the plan matrix.

Required evidence

Official meter definition

Required evidence

Route source URL

Required evidence

Pricing checked date

Registry boundary

This model page is an archive and schema surface. Exact route facts remain on tool detail pages and route taxonomy pages.

Tools

Current formal records whose compact pricing model is Usage Based.

Checked records

Tool records with a pricing freshness date.

Route types

Distinct access or purchase route types currently linked to this model.

Plan rows

Direct pricing plan rows owned by tools using this model.