Pricing
Cloud provider pricing for Alien AI resources.
Alien routes inference to the AI service in your customer's cloud. The customer pays the cloud provider for the tokens, and Alien charges a small management fee. See Pricing for Alien's current rates.
Global-endpoint rates. Last verified: August 2026.
Token Pricing
Inference is billed per token, priced per model. Output costs several times more than input on every provider.
| Model | Provider | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | AWS, GCP, Azure | $3.00 per million | $15.00 per million |
| GPT-OSS 120B | AWS | $0.15 per million | $0.60 per million |
Claude costs the same wherever it is served — Anthropic sets the rate and the clouds resell it. The figures above are the global-endpoint rate; pinning a model to one region adds roughly 10% on every cloud. Model choice still moves the bill far more than cloud or region does: the two rows above are the same workload more than 20× apart.
Infrastructure Pricing
| Platform | Standing charge |
|---|---|
| AWS | None. Bedrock is an account-level API with nothing provisioned. |
| GCP | None. Enabling the Vertex AI API is free. |
| Azure | None. The AI Foundry account and its deployments bill per token, not per hour. |
An AI resource that nothing calls costs nothing, on all three clouds.
Example: 5M Input + 1M Output Tokens/month
A support assistant handling about 5,000 conversations a month, at roughly 1,000 input and 200 output tokens each.
| Model | Input | Output | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | $15.00 | $15.00 | $30.00 |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.75 | $0.60 | $1.35 |
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Local and Kubernetes
No cloud charges. Both use a bring-your-own-key binding, so you pay your provider directly at their published rates.
Free Tiers
- AWS: no free tier for Bedrock on-demand inference.
- GCP: new-account credits apply to Vertex AI; there is no always-free inference allowance.
- Azure: new-account credits apply to Foundry; there is no always-free inference allowance.