Provisional fares. Beta pricing. Your fare is fixed when you submit a batch. View pricing details

Y-PAD

Qwen3-VL 8B

Image to JSON or text, from your prompt. Sold per image up to 1 MP input, pro rata above that, up to 4 MP, answers up to 2,048 tokens.

List fare, per image
$0.0020
Launch fare, from 20 images
$0.0010
Minimum, per submission
$0.0075
1,000 images, one batch
$2.00
$1.00 at the launch fare

The minimum stops mattering at 4 images. Below that, a submission pays $0.0075 whatever its size.

Cold start: expect 10 to 30 s, occasionally minutes. This is a queue, and later items in a batch ride on the same start.

Using it.

  • Send a prompt with every image. With output json the answer comes as {parsed, data} or, if it could not be parsed, {parsed: false, text}.
  • Answers stop at 2,048 tokens and are billed either way.
Table 1 Limits
Model IDqwen3-vl-8b
Input typesimage/pngimage/jpegimage/webp
Largest file25 MB
Largest item4 MP
Default max_units4
Smallest max_units1
LicenceApache-2.0
Table 2 Parameters
NameTypeAllowedDefault
prompt string Text, up to 800 characters required
output string json, text json
Dry run, which writes nothing
curl -s https://www.y-pad.com/v1/batches \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $YPAD_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "qwen3-vl-8b",
    "items": [{"file": "FILE_ID", "params": {"prompt":"Return the merchant, date and total as JSON.","output":"json"}}],
    "dry_run": true
  }'

The first-run guide covers the upload before this and the rest of the batch after it.

Who charges less.

Table 3 Qwen3-VL 8B, our launch fare first, then lowest first, per 1,000 images
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

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