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fal.ai

Image, video and audio model APIs billed per output on prepaid credits that expire after 365 days; free promotional credits expire in 90.

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Counts, not a score. 4 of 8 things we look for are published by fal.ai, and 4 we have not checked yet. A ratio would need a denominator from outside this site. A count does not.

What it costs you

What it really costs to startAll in, not the first-year promotional price.Prepaid credits bought in advance and drawn down as you use the platform; you pay only for successful outputs and are never charged for server errors or queue time, so there is no fixed fee to beginHow billing works for fal Model APIs · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

What it costs to keep alivePer year, once the introductory pricing is over.Per output, varying by model: video models such as Wan 2.5 at $0.05 per second of output, image models per image or per megapixel, and your own deployments on GPUs from $1.89/hr for an H100Pricing · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

The gate before the first cent

The gate before it pays anythingThe traffic, sales or balance you must reach before a single cent moves.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

How long before the first paymentThe gap you have to fund out of your own pocket.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

Is it yours or theirs

Who owns what you buildYours, or a room you are allowed to sit in until the rules change?Customer owns and retains all right, title and interest in the Customer Input, subject to a license letting fal process it to provide the Services; fal keeps ownership of the Services, models and technologyTerms of Service · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

Can you take it with youThe domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

Can it be soldIs there a resale market, and what does it pay?We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

What takes it all awayThe single rule, ban or dependency that ends it overnight.Credits expire 365 days from purchase, promotional credits in 90 days, and are non-refundable and non-transferable; fal may deactivate an account that does not log in or use the Services for more than one year, and may suspend access over Customer Input it deems likely to violate the law or the TermsTerm, Termination, and Suspension · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

Put fal.ai next to something else

No article here covers fal.ai alongside another platform yet, so there is nothing to suggest. Pick your own pairing and the same questions get asked of each.

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How to read this page

The ten things above are not our idea of what matters. They are what the checklists in twenty hand-written articles on this site already asked, counted up: country and eligibility came first in nineteen of them, waiting time and what you are paid in came next. The payout minimum, the number most people search for, barely appeared. It is one row here, not the headline.

A row marked not publishedmeans we opened the company's own pages looking for it and it was not there. That is a finding, and it is dated. A row marked not checked yet means we have not done the work. Those two are kept apart on purpose: an empty box because we were slow should never look like an empty box because they were quiet.

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