No-subscription AI
AI you pay for like electricity, not like a gym.
Three AI subscriptions is $60 a month whether you show up or not. OpenGradient meters instead: 1,000 credits = $1, spent only when you send a message or render an image or clip. Every frontier model on one balance - GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok - plus the image and video studios.
Free messages to start · no card · no identity attached
Subscription math
Flat plans bill your best month, every month.
AI usage is bursty: a heavy week shipping a project, then quiet. Subscriptions price the ceiling and collect it monthly - and stacking ChatGPT plus Claude plus an image tool means paying three ceilings for one workload.
$20 x every model you want
Model loyalty is enforced by billing: trying the other lab's model means another subscription, so most people never compare - they just renew.
Cancel-culture, the annoying kind
Pausing means remembering to cancel, losing access mid-project, and re-subscribing later. The friction is the business model.
The questions people actually bring here
Here's how OpenGradient is different
Metered, transparent, complete
Pay for what you run
Each message is priced by the model you use - shown upfront. Heavy models cost more, light models cost less, idle days cost nothing.
Every model, one balance
GPT-5.5, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Hermes - plus image generation from $0.015 and the full video studio. One meter for all of it.
No renewal, no expiry games
Packs at $10, $20 and $50. Credits sit until you use them, and unused credits are refundable on request within 14 days of purchase.
Free messages to start · no card · no identity attached
The anonymity layer
Metered billing, anonymous usage.
Not a policy promise - a protocol. No single party, including us, ever holds both your identity and your question.
Read the full security architectureEncrypted on your device
Messages are encrypted locally before they leave your browser.
Anonymized by Oblivious HTTP
Network relays split who you are from what you're asking. No one sees both.
Unlocked only in a secure enclave
The model reads your prompt inside attested hardware that never learns who sent it.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini - one tab away.
When the task calls for a frontier model, switch mid-conversation. Same anonymity layer, same chat, no extra subscription.
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
Grok
ByteDance SeedQuestions, answered
Frequently asked
- What does a typical message cost?
- Cents or fractions of a cent, depending on the model and conversation length - the rate is shown per model before you send. A $10 pack goes a long way on open models and covers plenty of frontier use.
- Is this cheaper than ChatGPT Plus?
- For bursty or multi-model users, usually yes - you stop paying for idle capacity and duplicate subscriptions. For someone hammering one frontier model all day, a flat plan can win. The meter makes the comparison honest.
- Do credits expire?
- No expiry clock. Buy a pack, use it whenever; refunds on unused credits within 14 days of purchase.
Put a meter on it
Start free, no card. When you buy credits, you'll know exactly where every cent went - which is more than any subscription can say.