Pricing

Pay-as-you-go credits. $1 in free credits on signup. No subscription, no expiry, no minimum. Self-serve top-ups go up to $100 per Stripe session — for larger invoices, email support@fredcode.net.

Full retail, all the time. We don't pass through DeepSeek's promotional or off-peak discounts. Your bill is the same regardless of when you call — predictable, auditable, and immune to mid-month rate changes.

Flash

deepseek-v4-flash · Default. Fast, cheap, good enough for almost anything.

Token type	Per 1M tokens	DeepSeek upstream
Input (uncached)	$0.35	$0.14
Input (cached)	$0.0070	$0.0028
Output	$0.70	$0.28

Pro

deepseek-v4-pro · Heavier reasoning. ~12× the output cost — switch with /pro in the CLI.

Token type	Per 1M tokens	DeepSeek upstream
Input (uncached)	$4.35	$1.74
Input (cached)	$0.04	$0.01
Output	$8.70	$3.48

Fred charges a 2.5× margin over DeepSeek's published rates. Even with the margin, Fred remains ~10× cheaper per session than Anthropic Sonnet or OpenAI direct on equivalent token loads — see the estimator below.

Estimate your monthly cost

Drag the sliders. Numbers come from the same lib/pricing.ts the proxy bills against — no fudge factor.

Input tokens / turn50K

Output tokens / turn10K

Turns per day20

Cached input40%

Fred / month

$10.58

Claude Sonnet 4 / month

$147.60

GPT-4o / month

$120.00

Computed as turn-cost × turns/day × 30 days, using each provider's published per-token rate. Cache discount applied to input only.

Web research

Tavily-backed web_search and web_fetch tools. Off by default — flip on at /settings. Bills against the same credits balance.

Action	You pay	Tavily upstream
`web_search` · basic	$0.020	$0.008
`web_search` · advanced	$0.040	$0.016
`web_fetch` · basic · per 5 URLs	$0.020	$0.008
`web_fetch` · advanced · per 5 URLs	$0.040	$0.016

URL counts ceil to the next 5: fetching 6 URLs bills as 2 batches. Same 2.5× margin as token usage. See the docs for the toggle, permission flow, and limits.