Upscale images, remove backgrounds and transcribe audio through one API. Send your files in a batch and put GPU power to work at predictable rates, with one minimum and one cold start shared across the batch.
1,000 Real-ESRGAN images: $1.00 here, $2.00 on Replicate (checked 2 Nov 2026).
| Service | Unit | List fare | Launch fare | Minimum, per submission |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real-ESRGAN x4plus Image upscaling, 4x | image per image up to 1 MP input, pro rata above that, up to 2 MP | $0.0010 | $0.0010 from 20 images | $0.0075 |
| Whisper large-v3 Speech to text | audio minute per minute of audio, by the second, 30 second minimum per file, up to 240 minutes | $0.00044 | $0.0004 from 30 audio minutes | $0.0075 |
| BiRefNet general Background removal | image per image up to 1 MP input, pro rata above that, up to 4 MP | $0.0005 | $0.0005 from 20 images | $0.0075 |
| Qwen3-TTS 1.7B Text to speech, preset voices | 1,000 characters per 1,000 characters of text, 500 character minimum per file, up to 20,000 | $0.0150 | $0.0150 from 1,000 characters | $0.0075 |
| Qwen3-VL 8B Image to JSON or text, from your prompt | image per image up to 1 MP input, pro rata above that, up to 4 MP, answers up to 2,048 tokens | $0.0020 | $0.0010 from 20 images | $0.0075 |
| Qwen-Image-Edit 2511 Image editing from a prompt, with safety checks | image per edited image, output up to 1 MP, input up to 25 MP | $0.0120 | $0.0120 from 20 images | $0.0075 |
| GLM-OCR PDF or image to Markdown | page per page: a PDF by its page count, an image as one page, up to 100 pages per file | $0.0010 | $0.0005 from 20 pages | $0.0075 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Text generation: classify, extract, translate, summarise | 1,000 tokens per 1,000 weighted tokens: output tokens plus input tokens at 0.25, the published price ratio, 100 token minimum per file. Runs on Google Cloud Vertex AI, not our GPUs: the prompt file leaves our storage | $0.0015 | $0.0009 from 20,000 tokens | $0.0075 |
A submission pays the fare for its units or the $0.0075 minimum, whichever is more. On Whisper large-v3, a file under 30 seconds bills as 30 seconds. On Qwen3-TTS 1.7B, a file under 500 characters bills as 500 characters. On DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, a file under 100 tokens bills as 100 tokens. The launch fare needs a launch seat and at least the size shown in units that succeed. Failed and cancelled items don't count towards it.
Cheaper if you can wait. Queue a batch, let the GPUs do the work, and collect your results.
From product catalogues to audio archives, turn a folder of files into finished work. Preview your batch before you submit, track its progress, and download the results through the same API.
Up to 100 files a call, straight to storage. Upload links last 1 hour.
See what the batch would hold and which files are missing. Nothing is written.
Up to 2,000 items. We hold the most it could cost, at the list fare.
Items run in turn, shared across accounts. Expect 10 to 30 s of cold start, occasionally minutes.
You pay for units that succeeded. Failed and cancelled items cost nothing, and the rest of the hold comes back.
Outputs stay for 7 days. Ask for links a page at a time.
Share one $0.0075 minimum across your whole submission. With Real-ESRGAN, just 8 images clear the minimum, so larger batches pay the published per-unit fare.
| The job | One batch, list fare | One batch, launch fare | One submission per job |
|---|---|---|---|
| One image, upscaled | $0.0075 | below 20 images | $0.0075 |
| 20 images, upscaled | $0.02 | $0.02 | $0.15 |
| 1,000 images, upscaled | $1.00 | $1.00 | $7.50 |
| 1,000 images, background removed | $0.50 | $0.50 | $7.50 |
| 1,000 one-minute clips, transcribed | $0.44 | $0.40 | $7.50 |
| 1,000 ten-second clips, transcribed | $0.22 | $0.20 | $7.50 |
Batching saves the most on small jobs. An audio file of 18 audio minutes or more clears the minimum on its own, so it pays the same list fare alone or in a batch. A file under 30 seconds bills as 30 seconds.
Launch fare Single account
Your first $25 of usage at the launch fare.
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The launch fare is a lower rate on money you've already paid for, so the pack adds $25 of prepaid usage balance and no more. If the seats run out before your payment lands, you keep the whole pack at list fares.
Plan your next batch with published prices side by side, checked on 2 Nov 2026 and linked to their sources.
One flat price per unit, a cost preview before you commit, and billing for successful results.
| Who | Published price | Per 1,000 | Against our fares | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y-PAD, launch fare | $0.0010 per image$0.0075 minimum per submission | $1.00 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Y-PAD, list fare | $0.0010 per image$0.0075 minimum per submission | $1.00 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Runware | $0.0013 at 4x, varies with inputpublished example, billed by compute | about $1.30 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | runware.ai |
| Replicate | $0.002 per imagepublished flat price | $2.00 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | replicate.com |
| Who | Published price | Per 1,000 | Against our fares | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y-PAD, launch fare | $0.0004 per audio minute$0.0075 minimum per submission, 30 second minimum per file | $0.40 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Y-PAD, list fare | $0.00044 per audio minute$0.0075 minimum per submission, 30 second minimum per file | $0.44 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| DeepInfra | $0.00045 per minutepublished price | $0.45 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | deepinfra.com |
| Together | $0.0015 per minutepublished price | $1.50 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | together.ai |
| Groq | $0.111 per hour, 10 s minimumpublished price, converted | $1.85 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | console.groq.com |
| Who | Published price | Per 1,000 | Against our fares | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y-PAD, launch fare | $0.0005 per image$0.0075 minimum per submission | $0.50 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Y-PAD, list fare | $0.0005 per image$0.0075 minimum per submission | $0.50 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Runware | $0.0006 per imagepublished price | $0.60 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | runware.ai |
| Replicate | about $0.0017 per runtypical cost shown on the model page, billed by time | about $1.70 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | replicate.com |
| Who | Published price | Per 1,000 | Against our fares | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y-PAD, launch fare | $0.0150 per 1,000 characters$0.0075 minimum per submission, 500 character minimum per file | $15.00 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Y-PAD, list fare | $0.0150 per 1,000 characters$0.0075 minimum per submission, 500 character minimum per file | $15.00 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Replicate | $0.02 per 1,000 characterspublished price | $20.00 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | replicate.com |
| fal | $0.09 per 1,000 characterspublished price | $90.00 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | fal.ai |
| Who | Published price | Per 1,000 | Against our fares | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y-PAD, launch fare | $0.0010 per image$0.0075 minimum per submission | $1.00 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| OpenRouter | $0.117 and $0.455 per million tokens in and outmodelled at 1,300 tokens in and 300 out for a 1 MP image | $0.30 | Less than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | openrouter.ai |
| Y-PAD, list fare | $0.0020 per image$0.0075 minimum per submission | $2.00 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Who | Published price | Per 1,000 | Against our fares | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y-PAD, launch fare | $0.0120 per image$0.0075 minimum per submission | $12.00 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Y-PAD, list fare | $0.0120 per image$0.0075 minimum per submission | $12.00 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| WaveSpeed | from $0.02 per runpublished starting price | $20.00 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | wavespeed.ai |
| Replicate | about $0.03 per imagepublished, around 33 images for $1 | $30.00 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | replicate.com |
| fal | $0.03 per megapixelpublished price, at 1 MP | $30.00 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | fal.ai |
| Who | Published price | Per 1,000 | Against our fares | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y-PAD, launch fare | $0.0005 per page$0.0075 minimum per submission | $0.50 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Y-PAD, list fare | $0.0010 per page$0.0075 minimum per submission | $1.00 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| Mistral | $4 per 1,000 pages, $2 through its batch APIpublished batch price per page | $2.00 | More than both our fares | 2 Nov 2026 | mistral.ai |
| Who | Published price | Per 1,000 | Against our fares | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y-PAD, launch fare | $0.0009 per 1,000 tokens$0.0075 minimum per submission, 100 token minimum per file | $0.90 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
| DeepSeek | $0.30 per 1M input, $1.20 per 1M output, peakpublished price, weighted the same way | $1.20 | Less than our list fare, more than launch | 2 Nov 2026 | api-docs.deepseek.com |
| Y-PAD, list fare | $0.0015 per 1,000 tokens$0.0075 minimum per submission, 100 token minimum per file | $1.50 | Ours | 2 Nov 2026 | Fares |
Explore upscaled images, clean cutouts and audio transcripts, all produced by the models available through the API.
Both shown zoomed to the centre, so the extra detail is visible. Locomotive in a railroad yard, near Chicago, Ill. Jack Delano, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-fsac-1a34687. Public domain. Library of Congress rights advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Source.
Monarch butterfly on butterfly milkweed. Courtney Celley, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. Public Domain Mark 1.0, work of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Source.
chapter i the beginning of things things. They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussauds. They were just ordinary suburban children, and they lived with their father and mother in an ordinary, red-brick-fronted villa, with coloured glass in the front door, a tiled passage that was called a hall, a bathroom room with hot and cold water electric bells french windows and a good deal of white paint and
The Railway Children, chapter 1, the first 52 seconds. Read by Kara Shallenberg for LibriVox. Text by E. Nesbit. Public domain. Public Domain Mark 1.0. LibriVox states its recordings are public domain in the USA. Source.
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