More value for your credits: Updated Make’s AI Provider token pricing model
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as of august 25, 2026, calculates credits for 's ai provider's small, medium, and large models using separate rates for input and output tokens this change doesn't affect apps where you use your own api key what's changing previously, calculated credits for the small, medium, and large models based on total tokens (input and output combined) now, input and output tokens have separate rates the same approach used for all other models in 's ai provider under the new model, input tokens are significantly cheaper and output tokens are moderately more expensive model tier previously total tokens per credit now input tokens per credit now output tokens per credit small 5,000 18,080 2,260 medium 3,500 18,080 2,260 large 1,500 3,616 452 what this means for you most ai automation steps use more input tokens than output tokens for example, a data extraction step that uses 2,000 input tokens and 100 output tokens cost about 0 6 credits on the medium tier under the previous rates under the new rates, the same step costs about 0 16 credits, a 73% reduction for most use cases, such as extracting data, summarizing, classifying, and running agent workflows, you'll see a decrease in credit usage steps that generate long output from a short prompt, such as drafting a blog post from a one line instruction, may use more credits what you need to do no action required you can keep using 's ai provider, or bring your own api key