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Pay-as-you-go billing and free quotas are two common pricing models for cloud APIs; free quotas are usually measured in requests, tokens, or duration, after which billing switches to pay-as-you-go; multimodal models, being compute-intensive, often have no free quota or an extremely low one.
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