io.net Intelligence
- Free allowance
- A free daily inference allowance exists and is documented, but its size is not published.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateThe Standard plan's free daily allowance is not sized on the pages read. It is a credit pool shared across models, each model consuming credits at its own rate, and chat and API calls draw on the same daily limit. The per-model limit...
- Evidence
- documented11 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | A free daily inference allowance exists and is documented, but its size is not published. Quoted: 'Standard (default): Explore and learn with free, light daily access. Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pricing is applied for usage beyond the daily limit.' Quoted: 'The IO Intelligence API offers different free daily limits per account, depending on the AI model.' unit none; metered on wall-clock; recurring-allowance |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | email account creation by Google, Apple ID, GitHub or an email one-time password, and the free daily allowance needs no payment details: a guide states 'The io.intelligence API includes free daily limits per model, so you can start without entering payment details'. Adding credit takes a card or Solana, and the 5% top-up fee applies 'only to credit top-ups made with a credit or debit card', so debit is accepted. Prepaid acceptance and any authorisation amount are not stated |
| Egress | not stated |
| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | This is the only free lane io.net actually operates, and it is inference not GPU rental. It composes with a coding agent that needs a daily token allowance rather than a machine. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | io.net needs two records, not one, and conflating them is the error a roundup makes. IO Cloud is a paid GPU marketplace with a USD 10 minimum. io.net Intelligence is a separate product with a genuinely free daily token allowance. |
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Evidence 11
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | io.net/docs/guides/payment/io-intelligence-payments | quoted: the Standard plan is the default and gives 'free, light daily access'; paid plans are Professional at USD 15 per month and Developer at USD 150 per month; daily limit covers both chat and API |
| 2026-10-22 | io.net/docs/guides/intelligence/io-intelligence-apis | quoted: 'The IO Intelligence API offers different free daily limits per account, depending on the AI model. See the table in our API Reference for model-specific limits' |
| 2026-10-22 | support.io.net/en/support/solutions/articles/156000296695-io | quoted: 'Tokens reset automatically every day. The usage display (e.g., 1.4K/1M) shows how many tokens you've used out of the total available', which shows a 1M-token daily figure as the worked example |
| 2026-10-22 | io.net/p/how-to-deploy-llama-3-on-io-net-step-by-step-guide | quoted: 'The io.intelligence API includes free daily limits per model, so you can start without entering payment details' |
| 2026-10-22 | io.net/docs/guides/payment/io-credits | quoted: minimum purchase USD 10; purchased credits expire 12 months after purchase; promotional credits exist but with terms stated only when issued |
| 2026-10-22 | io.net/docs/guides/clouds/start-using-io-cloud | account creation by Google, Apple ID, GitHub or email one-time password; payments are card or Solana only, with no free tier mentioned anywhere in the account or payment path |
| 2026-10-22 | io.net/docs/guides/payment/io-cloud-payments | quoted: 'A 5% fee applies only to credit top-ups made with a credit or debit card' |
| 2026-11-03 | io.net/docs/guides/payment/io-intelligence-payments | the Standard plan is the default and gives free, light daily access, with pay-as-you-go beyond the daily limit |
| 2026-11-03 | io.net/docs/guides/payment/io-intelligence-payments | the allowance is a credit pool shared across models, each model consuming at its own rate |
| 2026-11-03 | io.net/p/how-to-deploy-llama-3-on-io-net-step-by-step-guide | the free daily limits need no payment details |
| 2026-11-03 | io.net/docs/guides/clouds/start-using-io-cloud | account creation by social login or an email one-time password |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field