For open-weights models
Pay list price.
Get most of it back.
Load factor pricing discounts open-weights models by up to 90%. It does not change what you are charged when a request runs — every request bills at full list price. Once the hour closes, n4n works out the discount that applied and credits it back to your project.
Read this before your first invoice
You will see the full-price charge first and the saving second. That is the design, not a billing error — the discount arrives within the hour as credit, and it is spent before your cash balance is touched.
up to 90% off · open-weights only · settled hourly
What the factor is
A curve we steer, clamped by your plan.
n4n serves open-weights models through upstream providers. Each of those models carries a discount factor that an n4n operator sets and moves — informed by provider supply signals, not by a meter on hardware we own. Your plan sets a floor, and what you actually receive is whichever of the two is smaller.
- Model factor, set by an n4n operator
- What you receive — min(factor, your plan floor)
- 01Charged at list priceEvery request bills in full when it is served. The discount is not applied at request time.
- 02The hour closesA settlement job reads that hour's open-weights spend and applies min(factor, your plan floor).
- 03Credited backThe discount lands as open-model credit, valid 90 days, spent before your cash balance.
Illustrative shape only — not live data, and not a fleet readout. n4n serves open-weights models through upstream providers; the factor is set per model by an operator and informed by provider supply signals. Peak shown 90% off, clamped to 75% on Pro.
How it works
Charged in full, settled hourly.
01
Your request bills at list
Nothing in the request path changes. The model's listed price is what lands on the meter, immediately, exactly as it does on a closed model.
02
The hour closes and settles
A settlement job totals that hour's open-weights spend for each project and applies the smaller of the model's factor and your plan's floor.
03
The discount comes back as credit
It is issued as open-model credit, valid 90 days, and drains ahead of your cash balance on the next open-weights request.
There is no single rate
How deep the discount goes is your plan.
Every plan sets a floor on the discount it can reach. A model sitting at 82% off pays out at 60% on Plus and 75% on Pro; only Max can take the whole 90% ceiling. A project with no subscription earns no rebate at all.
Starter
$10/mo40%
discount floor
Plus
$50/mo60%
discount floor
Pro
$100/mo75%
discount floor
Max
$200/mo90%
discount floor
+ higher rate limits
Floors are fixed per plan. The model factor moves; the floor does not.
See what each plan includes →One hour, end to end
What the money actually does.
1 · charged
$40.00
Open-weights spend paid from your cash balance in one hour, at list price.
2 · factor
82%
The factor the operator had set on that model for the hour.
3 · clamped
75%
Your Pro floor is 75%, so that is what applies — the smaller of the two.
4 · credited back
$30.00
Issued as open-model credit within the hour. Net cost for the hour: $10.00.
Illustrative figures. The mechanism and the floors are exact.
Where it applies
Four rules, stated plainly.
Open-weights models only
Claude, GPT and Gemini bill at roughly what the upstream charges us, so there is no margin there to discount. They carry no factor, and a request to one earns no rebate.
Only on what you paid in cash
Usage covered by your plan's monthly credit is not rebated — the plan credit is already the discount at that tier. Load factor is what makes the overage cheap.
Credit, not cash back
The rebate is open-model credit valid for 90 days. It spends on open-weights inference and drains before your cash balance, but it is not withdrawable.
Per project, per hour
Subscriptions are bought per project, so two projects in one org on different plans earn different floors on the same model in the same hour.
Pick a floor and start sending.
Subscribe a project in the console and every open-weights request it makes starts earning the discount from the next hour.