Terms and privacy
The beta
cheapllm.shop is in beta. Inference is free during this period, with no rate limit. After it, every account keeps a permanent free tier of at least 5,000 input tokens and 1,000 output tokens per hour, with no card, and usage beyond it is billed; the planned prices are $0.005 per million input tokens, $0.001 per million cached input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens; we'll announce it on the site and by email beforehand, and nothing is charged unless you add a payment method yourself. Service is provided as is, without uptime guarantees.
Fair use
There is no rate limit on your key, but please don't use the service for anything illegal, to generate malware or abuse material, to attack other systems, or to resell access without talking to us. We may suspend accounts that do.
What we store
- Your email address and a salted hash of your password.
- A fingerprint (SHA-256) of each API key, never the key itself.
- For each request: time, token counts, latency, status code and which key was used.
We do not store the content of your prompts or of the model's answers. Requests are processed on infrastructure we operate or rent, only for the time needed to produce the answer. When our main capacity is unavailable, requests can be served by a backup inference provider, which may keep prompts and answers under its own terms, including to improve its models. Don't send anything you would not want a third party to see while that happens.
Cookies and analytics
One cookie keeps you signed in. Your sound preference lives in your browser's local storage.
Umami counts page views without cookies. If you say yes to the notice at the bottom of the page, we also use PostHog (EU servers) to understand how the site is used: pages visited, clicks, scrolling, errors and session replays. Every form field, every API key and every playground conversation is masked or excluded from replays. Your account events (sign-up, keys created, first API call, failed API calls) are linked to your account only if you said yes. Until you say yes, and if you say no, PostHog only counts visits, without any cookie: pages viewed, time on page and errors, attributed to a code computed on PostHog's servers from your IP address and browser, with a key that changes every day, so a visit can't be tied to you or followed from one day to the next. No session replay, no click recording, and nothing linked to your account. You can change your mind at any time by clearing this site's storage, and we will ask again.
Leaving
Delete your account from the dashboard at any time. Your keys, sessions and usage history are removed immediately.
chat.cheapllm.shop
The chat uses your cheapllm.shop account. Signed in, your conversations are stored on our server so you can come back to them, and you can delete them from the chat; admins can't open them from the chat's admin panel. Without an account you chat as a guest: conversations are not saved and a guest limit applies. Requests from the chat count in your usage like API requests.