Cerebras Inference API pricing

How Cerebras Inference API charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.

How it charges

Checked 2026-10-07 on www.cerebras.ai ↗ · USD, list prices
In short

Pay per token on very fast inference: $0.35 / $0.75 per million input/output tokens on gpt-oss-120B.

Free plan
Yes
Side project
$2.50/mo gpt-oss-120B
Growing
$25/mo gpt-oss-120B
Scaling
$500/mo gpt-oss-120B
What the model leaves out

A rate-limited free trial (about 1M tokens a day) and a one-time $5 credit are available. Qwen 3.8 27B is the other shared model, at $0.99 / $1.49.

Before you commit
  • Only two models are on shared pay-as-you-go inference; others need dedicated capacity through sales.
  • Cached input tokens get no discount.
  • Context is 131K tokens on paid plans (65K on the free trial).
PlanMonthly feeInput tokens per monthOutput tokens per month
gpt-oss-120BNone$0.35 per million tokens$0.75 per million tokens

What you'd pay

Cost as you grow

$0$100$500$1,000$2,0001510501005001k5k
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