Plans for indie hackers, AI-native startups, and enterprises. Pay only for what you use — no minimum spend.
| Feature | Free | Pay-as-you-go | Regulated EU |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing & usage | |||
| Monthly cost | $0 | $0 + usage | Custom contract |
| Pricing model | Free | Token cost + 5.5% | Negotiated rate card |
| Monthly requests | 1,000 | Unlimited | Unlimited + committed throughput |
| Spend caps & alerts | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Models & routing | |||
| Model catalog | Open-weight only | 100+ across every major provider | Full catalog + private endpoints |
| Smart retries & fallback chains | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt & semantic caching | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) | — | ✓ | KMS-wrapped + HSM |
| Compliance & governance | |||
| Residency profiles | Global only | EU, FR, DE, UK | Custom (HDS, SecNumCloud, BSI C5) |
| Zero Data Retention | — | Where supported | Enforced + attestation |
| Risk classification (Art. 5 / Annex III) | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Signed audit vault (WORM) | — | 30-day retention | 10-year retention + Merkle anchoring |
| Signed deployer policy engine | — | — | ✓ |
| Human oversight queues (Art. 14) | — | — | ✓ |
| Auto-generated FRIA (Art. 27) | — | — | ✓ |
| Article 73 incident reporting | — | — | ✓ |
| Regulator access keys | — | — | ✓ |
| Security & identity | |||
| SOC 2 Type II | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO (SAML / OIDC) | — | — | ✓ |
| SCIM 2.0 provisioning | — | — | ✓ |
| Support | |||
| Community (Discord, GitHub) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email support | — | ✓ | ✓ (priority) |
| Compliance success manager | — | — | ✓ |
| Uptime SLA | — | 99.9% | 99.95% |
Wondering about exact token costs? On Pay-as-you-go we pass through the base costs of every underlying model completely transparently, plus a flat 5.5% routing fee. No hidden markups.
View all supported models and token pricingInput and output tokens are billed per model at the posted provider rates. The token counts and per-model prices are surfaced on every response in the compliance_metadata envelope so your invoicing always matches what your application observed.
No. We pass through the published provider rate card unchanged. The price you see in the model catalog is exactly what you pay for tokens — the same as on the provider's own website.
No. When the smart retries or fallback chain kicks in, you're billed only for the successful model run. Failed attempts and re-validations are absorbed by the platform.
Regulated EU is the tier built for organizations operating high-risk AI systems under the EU AI Act, GDPR, DORA, MiFID II, MDR, or HDS. It adds the signed deployer policy engine, the WORM audit vault with regulator access keys, auto-generated FRIA and Article 73 incident drafts, human oversight queues, and a named compliance success manager.
No minimums and no lock-in. You pay only for what you use. Spend caps, alerts, and webhooks are included by default so you stay in control.
Never. Meridian Blue does not train on your data. Upstream provider retention is enforced via the Zero Data Retention layer where supported — and on Regulated EU, ZDR is contractually attested per provider.
Yes. Create separate API keys per environment with their own scopes, spend caps, residency profiles, and risk-tiered rate limits. Test keys (mb_test_sk_) only route to free preview models so you can wire up CI safely.
Smart retries handle transient failures inside the gateway. If they exhaust, the fallback chain promotes to the next eligible candidate — re-classified and re-validated against your residency and ZDR requirements before being used. You're billed only for the successful run.
Pay-as-you-go accepts credit and debit cards and SEPA direct debit. Regulated EU supports invoicing, purchase orders, and annual contracts in EUR.