Charm Hyper
- Free allowance
- No free plan: 'We've retired the monthly free Hypercredit allowance.' Entry is Shred Diet at USD 10 a month for 180 Hypercredits a week (about USD 9.00 of inference), or prepaid Hypercredits from USD 5.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaShred Diet 180 Hypercredits a week (about USD 9.00 of inference), refreshed Sunday 00:00 UTC with no roll-over; Classic 250, Energy 400, Nitro 690, Animal 1,200; rolling five-hour window: 100 Hypercredits on Shred Diet, 150, 250, 400...
- Evidence
- documented42 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | no free plan: 'We've retired the monthly free Hypercredit allowance.' Entry is Shred Diet at USD 10 a month for 180 Hypercredits a week (about USD 9.00 of inference), or prepaid Hypercredits from USD 5. Personal ladder: Shred Diet USD 10 (180 a week), Shred Classic USD 20 (250), Shred Energy USD 50 (400), Shred Nitro USD 100 (690), Shred Animal USD 200 (1,200) unit none; metered on none; allowances are in Hypercredits, each worth USD 0.05 of inference at the models' listed per-token prices, so they are spent per token and not per request; Business plans for teams cost USD 30 to USD 220 per user a month for the same allowances as the five Shred tiers |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | volume-quota for sustained use the weekly Hypercredit allowance runs out first; the five-hour window and the 2-request concurrency of Shred Diet bind bursts |
| Identity | card sign-up is 'Sign up with Google, GitHub, or email' (the app offers Google and GitHub buttons and an email and password form, loads a Cloudflare Turnstile check, and sends an email verification link); the account holder must be 18 or older. The free allowance is retired, so use needs a Shred plan or prepaid Hypercredits from USD 5, paid through Stripe, which collects payment card details and a billing address. The app also has a waitlist screen ('Your account is pending approval'); whether new accounts are waitlisted now, and which payment methods checkout accepts: unverified: behind a sign-up |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Retention | Shred (Personal) plans are not zero-data-retention: prompts and responses are retained and used to train the vendor's models, and are not deleted on account closure. Prepaid Hypercredits and Business plans are zero-data-retention: content is not stored by default and is held up to 30 days if temporarily retained; request metadata (timestamps, model identifiers, token counts, billing records) is kept |
| Interface | rest, cli an HTTP API at https://hyper.charm.land/v1 with the OpenAI chat-completions (/v1/chat/completions), OpenAI responses (/v1/responses) and Anthropic messages (/v1/messages) protocols; Bearer key beginning sk-hyper-, with x-api-key also accepted on /v1/messages; GET /v1/models needs no key and GET /v1/credits returns the Hypercredit balance endpoint: https://hyper.charm.land/v1 |
| Tooling | any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible client; the vendor documents Crush (first-class, device-code sign-in or HYPER_API_KEY), Claude Code (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL), Codex (responses wire API in config.toml), OpenCode (Connect Provider), Pi (npm:@charmland/pi-hyper-provider), Zed and the Go library Fantasy |
| Composes with | one key serves every OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible agent; subscription Hypercredits are spent first and prepaid Hypercredits, which are zero-data-retention and carry no concurrency limit, take over, so a Shred plan plus a prepaid top-up covers bursts past the weekly allowance |
| Reliability | the plan structure has been replaced: subscribers on the original Shred plan move to Pay As You Go at the end of the billing cycle and the monthly free allowance is retired; a rate limit answers 429 and an empty balance 402; the sign-up app can hold a new account on a waitlist |
| Notes | Hosted service from Charm, the maker of Crush. Hyper serves open-weight models itself (23 model ids on the public list, with context windows up to 1,048,576 tokens and USD prices per million tokens, for example deepseek-v4.1-flash at 0.33 input, 1.31 output and 0.03 cached input, kimi-k3 at 3.2664 input and 16.332 output), plus the routing model Prism. Entry plan Shred Diet is USD 10 a month, under USD 20. Pay As You Go has no subscription and no rate limits; Enterprise (dedicated instances, SAML SSO, bring-your-own keys) is contact-sales. Outside the United States a Shred plan is sold only after a separate training-consent checkbox at checkout; prepaid Hypercredits and Business plans need none. |
| Evidence note | documented plans, allowances, retention, protocols and sign-up options are quoted from first-party pages and the live sign-in app, and the model list is a probe of the public endpoint, all read on 2026-11-02. The checkout payment methods, waitlisting of new accounts and the per-model request rate are unverified: behind a sign-up. |
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Evidence 42
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.md | Shred Diet is USD 10 a month for 180 Hypercredits a week (about USD 9.00 of inference), 100 per five hours and 2 concurrent requests |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.md | Shred Classic is USD 20 a month for 250 Hypercredits a week, 150 per five hours and 3 concurrent requests |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.md | Shred Energy is USD 50 a month for 400 Hypercredits a week, 250 per five hours and 4 concurrent requests |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.md | Shred Nitro is USD 100 a month for 690 Hypercredits a week, 400 per five hours and 8 concurrent requests |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.md | Shred Animal is USD 200 a month for 1,200 Hypercredits a week, 700 per five hours and 12 concurrent requests |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.md | the team ladder starts at USD 30 per user a month with the same allowances as Shred Diet |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.md | the team ladder ends at USD 220 per user a month with the same allowances as Shred Animal |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.html | Pay As You Go sells prepaid Hypercredits from USD 5 with no rate limits |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.html | every plan reaches the whole model roster |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.html | the weekly allowance refreshes Sunday 00:00 UTC and a five-hour rolling window applies |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/plans-billing.md | Shred (Personal) plans are not zero-data-retention |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/faq | Hyper has no free plan |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/faq | prepaid credits are a separate balance from the subscription allowance |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/faq | prepaid Hypercredits never expire, are zero-data-retention and carry no concurrency limit |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/faq | the weekly allowance does not carry over |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/faq | Shred plans retain prompts and responses |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/faq | subscribers on the original Shred plan are moved to Pay As You Go when the cycle ends |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/ | the API speaks the OpenAI and Anthropic protocols at https://hyper.charm.land/v1 |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/ | sign-up takes a Google or GitHub login or an email address |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/api/authentication.md | the model list needs no key |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/models.md | Hypercredits are computed from token cost at USD 0.05 each |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/api/openai-chat-completions.md | a rate limit answers HTTP 429 |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/api/openai-chat-completions.md | an empty balance answers HTTP 402 |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/api/openai-responses.md | /v1/responses speaks the OpenAI Responses protocol |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/api/anthropic-messages.md | /v1/messages speaks the Anthropic Messages protocol |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/coding-agents/claude-code.md | Claude Code is pointed at Hyper with ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/coding-agents/codex.md | Codex reaches Hyper over the responses wire API |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/coding-agents/opencode.md | OpenCode lists Charm Hyper as a provider and takes the API key |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/coding-agents/pi.md | Pi reaches Hyper through a provider extension |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/docs/coding-agents/crush.html | Charm's own agent signs in to Hyper or reads HYPER_API_KEY |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/legal/terms-of-service | registration needs an account holder aged 18 or older |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/legal/terms-of-service | fees are paid through a third-party payment processor |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/legal/terms-of-service | request metadata is retained under zero data retention |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/legal/privacy-policy | the account holds a name, an email address, a username and a password |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/legal/privacy-policy | paying collects card details and a billing address, processed by Stripe |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/legal/privacy-policy | zero-data-retention content is not stored by default and held up to 30 days at most |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/legal/privacy-policy | non-ZDR plan content is kept for training and survives account closure |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/legal/privacy-policy | outside the United States a Shred plan needs a separate consent checkbox at checkout |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/app/assets/index-C7JiyLcS.js | the sign-in app offers GitHub sign-in (and Google sign-in beside it) |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/app/assets/index-C7JiyLcS.js | the app has a waitlist state for new accounts |
| 2026-11-02 | hyper.charm.land/app/assets/index-C7JiyLcS.js | the sign-in calls carry a Cloudflare Turnstile token |
| 2026-11-02 | probe: https://hyper.charm.land/v1/models | the public Hyper model list answered 200 with 23 model ids, among them kimi-k3, glm-5.3, deepseek-v4.1-flash, qwen3.8-max and gpt-oss-120b, each with per-million-token USD prices and a context window |
Unknown values 2
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer