Models and Pricing

Discover model availability, modalities, pricing, and supported parameters

EmpirioLabs AI exposes a canonical model catalog through the API. The same catalog powers the Models page and Pricing page on the website.

List models

$ curl "https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/models?available=true" \
>   -H "Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY"

The response includes each model’s id, display name, provider, modalities, capabilities, supported parameters (with types, defaults, min/max), context window, and pricing.

Retrieve one model

$ curl "https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/models/seed-2-0-pro" \
>   -H "Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY"

The detail response includes the full supported_parameters array, capabilities object, default_params, and pricing breakdown.

Model categories

These are the canonical categories used in the live catalog (the category field on GET /v1/models/<id>). Vision and reasoning are model capabilities, not separate categories — a Text Generation model can also be a vision model and a reasoning model.

Category	Examples	Typical pricing unit
Text Generation	Qwen3-Max, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Seed 2.0 Pro, Mistral Medium 3.1, Nova Pro, MiMo V2.5 Pro, Manus	Per input + output token
Image Generation	Qwen Image 2.0, Seedream 5.0 Lite, Hunyuan Image 3, Nova Canvas, Wan 2.7 Image	Per image
Video Generation	Kling O3, Wan 2.7, Seedance 2.0 Pro, Hunyuan Video 1.5, Pixverse V5.6, SVI 2.0 Pro	Per second of generated video
Audio Generation	GLM-TTS, SoulX-Podcast, Gemini 2.5 / 3.1 TTS, Stable Audio 2.5	Per character or per second of audio
Transcription	Deepgram Nova 3, OpenAI Whisper	Per second / minute of input audio
Research & Search	Exa Search, Tavily, Linkup, Perplexity Sonar, GPTZero	Per request, per call, or per token (model-dependent)

Pricing units

Models are not all token-priced. The catalog may use any of these billing units:

token — charged per input token and per output token (most text/chat models)
request — flat rate per API call
image — charged per generated image
video-second — charged per second of generated video
audio-second — charged per second of generated or transcribed audio
tool-call — charged per tool invocation
custom — model-specific billing (see the model’s pricing array)

Always call GET /v1/models or GET /v1/models/{modelId} for current pricing metadata before estimating cost.

Discount labels

Discount labels such as Save up to 10% reflect the maximum discount shown for that model against comparable standard API rates from the original provider, when standard rates are available. These discounts are applied automatically — no coupon or special plan required.