Fireworks AI gives new accounts a $1 one-time signup credit rather than an ongoing free tier. The free plan includes access to serverless inference with $1 in free credits.
About
Fireworks AI is a cloud platform for running, tuning, and deploying generative AI models. It provides serverless inference, on-demand GPU deployments, and fine-tuning workflows for open models, with model access exposed through an API and developer tooling.
The pricing page lists $1 in free credits for serverless inference, along with per-token pricing for text and vision models, per-second pricing for speech-to-text, per-step and per-image pricing for image generation, and per-GPU-hour pricing for on-demand deployments. It is aimed at developers building code assistants, chatbots, RAG systems, multimodal apps, and other model-backed applications.
- Serverless inference with postpaid billing
- $1 free credits at signup
- Per-token text and vision pricing
- Speech-to-text billed per audio minute
- Image generation billed per step or image
- On-demand GPU deployments by hour
- Fine-tuning and reinforcement tuning support
- Open model library with API access
Free Tier Value
This free tier includes a one-time $1 credit for serverless inference, so it has real value but only as a small starter allowance rather than a recurring monthly entitlement. Because the credit is capped and does not repeat each month, it is not meaningful to convert it into a monthly value; the practical value is just the one dollar of usage it unlocks, with no indication that a credit card is unnecessary.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- Access to serverless inference with $1 in free credits.
- Use of text and vision models within the free credits.
- Use of speech-to-text models within the free credits.
- Use of image generation models within the free credits.
- Use of embeddings models within the free credits.
See Fireworks AI pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Serverless Inference
- Per-token serverless inference
- Zero setup
- No cold starts
- High rate limits
- Postpaid billing
Training
- Fine-tuned model serving
- Same price as base models
- Managed training options
- Reinforcement fine tuning available
On Demand Deployments
- Dedicated GPU deployments
- Faster speeds
- Higher rate limits
- Lower costs at scale
- Multi-region support
Dedicated Training API
- Dedicated training jobs
- Per-GPU-hour billing
- Uses on-demand deployment pricing
Serverless Training API
- context
- 64k to 192k depending on model
- Shared always-on trainer pool
- No provisioning
- No idle cost
- LoRA training on launch models
Embeddings
- input tokens
- 1M
- Embedding inference
- Tiered by base model size
Pricing extracted from Fireworks AI's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Fireworks AI free forever?
No. Fireworks AI gives new accounts a one-time signup credit of about $1.00, spent at normal usage rates, then the account moves to pay-as-you-go.
What is Fireworks AI's free tier worth?
Fireworks AI's free tier is worth about $1.00 in signup credit. That maps to an FTV score of 16/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
