Pricing
CalmLens has no monthly fee. You pay for the moderation, storage and delivery your projects use, at the unit prices below, in GBP.
Free uploads
Every account starts with 100 free uploads, with no card. They are shared by the projects the account owns and don't reset. Once they are used, uploads return 403 upload/limit-exceeded until the project owner sets up Portal › Subscription.
Unit prices
With billing set up there is no upload limit. Each meter includes a free allowance every billing month, and usage beyond it is charged at the meter's price.
| Usage | Price | Included free each month |
|---|---|---|
| Image moderation | £2.00 per 1,000 images | No free allowance |
| Text moderation | £1.50 per 1,000,000 tokens | No free allowance |
| OCR (text in images) | £1.50 per 1,000 images | First 1,000 images |
| Person detectionBeta | £1.00 per 1,000 images | First 1,000 images |
| Face detectionBeta | £1.00 per 1,000 images | First 1,000 images |
| Retained storage | £0.025 per GB-month | First 10 GB-months |
| AI asset searches | £0.025 per 1,000 searches | No free allowance |
| AI media search indexing | £1.20 per 1,000 indexing units | No free allowance |
| CDN reads | £1.00 per 1,000,000 reads | First 1,000,000 reads |
| Image transforms | £0.50 per 1,000 transforms | First 1,000 transforms |
| Website ingestion | £0.30 per 1,000 websites | No free allowance |
Each text check is billed for at least 250 tokens, so short comments cost £0.375 per 1,000 checks. Longer text is billed by its actual tokens.
What each request is billed for
Usage belongs to the project owner's account, whoever sends the request.
| You do | Billed as |
|---|---|
| Upload an image | One image moderation. Each processing feature you turn on adds one unit of its own meter: OCR, person detection or face detection. |
| Upload text | Text moderation for the tokens checked, with the minimum per check above. Text that OCR reads from an image is moderated and billed the same way. |
| Upload a document | Its extracted text and images become child assets, billed as text and image moderation. |
| Upload audio or video | Text moderation for the input tokens of each 30-second chunk, with a 250-token minimum per chunk. Profiles with qualifier rules are billed for image moderation and OCR per sampled frame and text moderation for the transcript instead. See Audio and video. |
| Submit a website | One website ingestion. The page's text and images are moderated as child assets and billed as text and image moderation. See Website moderation. |
Keep content (keepContentAfterProcessing: true) | Retained storage for as long as CalmLens holds it, measured hourly. Content deleted after processing isn't stored. |
| Serve an asset from the CDN | One CDN read per delivery. |
| Resize or convert an image | One image transform. See Lenses and transforms. |
Search assets in semantic or hybrid mode | One AI asset search per completed semantic query, including queries with no matches. Keyword search is free. See Asset search. |
| Turn on audio and video search | AI media search indexing for each retained audio or video revision. See Asset search. |
Check your usage and estimated costs for the current billing month on Portal › Usage.
Prepaid credit
Credit pays for usage before your card is charged. Buy at least £10 on Portal › Subscription, and larger purchases add bonus credit:
| Credit bought | Bonus credit |
|---|---|
| £50 or more | 2% |
| £100 or more | 5% |
| £500 or more | 8% |
Credit you pay for never expires. Bonus credit is used first and expires 12 months after it is added. Auto top-up buys credit with your saved card when the balance falls below an amount you choose.
Spend limits
Set a spend limit for each billing period on Portal › Subscription. The project owner is emailed at 50%, 80%, and 100% of the limit.
You can choose to pause new uploads at the limit. Paused uploads return 402 upload/spend-limit-reached until the next billing period or until you raise the limit, and the usage.spend-limit-reached event tells your connectors when uploads are paused. Keep the content unpublished and retry it in the next billing period or after raising the limit.