Edenai Transitions to Pay-As-You-Go Model, Discontinuing All Subscription Plans and Discounts
What happened
Between the Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025 captures of Edenai's pricing page, Pulse recorded 6 changes: Starter plan (FREE) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model; Premium plan ($499/month annual, $599/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model; Complete pricing model restructure from subscription tiers to pay-as-you-go model. All subscription plans (Starter, Personal, Professional, Premium) removed in favor of pure pay-per-use pricing at vendor rates; Professional plan ($166/month annual, $199/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model; Personal plan ($41/month annual, $49/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model; Annual billing discount (Save 17%) removed as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model. Pulse files it as a pricing change (plan removed, package change, discount removed) with a downward direction. Pulse's latest capture (Jun 11, 2026) lists AI API Gateway at $5.5 per API call.
Edenai's previous recorded change was "Edenai Transforms Pricing Structure to Simplified Pay-as-You-Go and Optional Packs for Enhanced User Experience" (Q1 2024). Before that Pulse recorded "Edenai Restructures Pricing Model, Introduces Upfront Credit Allocations and Significant API Rate Limit Reductions Across Plans" (Dec 2023). Edenai has been tracked since 2023-11-14.
In the same window OpenAI and Anthropic also changed their AI & Machine Learning pricing pages. Those moves are listed further down, and the Pulse Agent can compare them side by side.
- Starter · PlanPlan removed
Starter plan (FREE) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model
- Premium · PlanPlan removed
Premium plan ($499/month annual, $599/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model
- Complete · PackagingChangedsubscription tierspay-as-you-go model
- Professional · PlanPlan removed
Professional plan ($166/month annual, $199/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model
- Personal · PlanPlan removed
Personal plan ($41/month annual, $49/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model
- — · DiscountRemovedDiscountNo discount
| Plan | Field | Before | After | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Plan | Starter plan (FREE) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model | Plan removed | |
| Premium | Plan | Premium plan ($499/month annual, $599/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model | Plan removed | |
| Complete | Packaging | subscription tiers | pay-as-you-go model | Changed |
| Professional | Plan | Professional plan ($166/month annual, $199/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model | Plan removed | |
| Personal | Plan | Personal plan ($41/month annual, $49/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model | Plan removed | |
| — | Discount | Discount | No discount | Removed |
Values as written on Edenai's public pricing page in the two captures Pulse compared; where the page states no number, the cells give the wording before and after.
Evidence
The two captures Pulse comparedFull-page captures of Edenai's pricing page (edenai.co) from Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the change is marked on the page, where "subscription tiers" becomes "pay-as-you-go model".
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Edenai, pricing history
Full history- Week 3, 2026packagingEdenai rebrands both plans with new product-focused names
- Q2 2025improvedEdenai Removes Key Features from Custom AI API Plan While Enhancing Universal AI API with New Functionalities
- Q1 2025packagingEdenai Transforms Pricing Structure: Consolidates Enterprise Solutions into Premium Tier and Introduces Formal Three-Tier Model
- Q4 2024packagingEdenai Transitions to Pay-As-You-Go Model, Discontinuing All Subscription Plans and Discounts · this change
- Q1 2024packagingEdenai Transforms Pricing Structure to Simplified Pay-as-You-Go and Optional Packs for Enhanced User Experience
- Dec 2023improvedEdenai Restructures Pricing Model, Introduces Upfront Credit Allocations and Significant API Rate Limit Reductions Across Plans
Across AI & Machine Learning in the same window
All AI & Machine Learning changes- OpenAIJan 12OpenAI Announces Dramatic 87% Price Drop for Flagship Reasoning Model Outputs During Transition to o3
- AnthropicJan 10Anthropic API Introduces Tiered Pricing and Prompt Caching for Sonnet 4.5, Restructuring Costs Based on Token Length
- OpenAIJan 12OpenAI API Implements 40% Price Increase for GPT-5.2 Output and Input Tokens, Renames GPT-5 to GPT-5.2
- OpenAIJan 12OpenAI Introduces New GPT-4 Turbo Model at Existing Pricing While Ending Free Trial for Code Interpreter
- OpenAIJan 12OpenAI Discontinues Fine-Tuning and Legacy Models, Introduces GPT-4.5 and New o3-mini Pricing for Enhanced Accessibility
Questions about this change
Did Edenai raise prices in January 2025?
No list-price increase was recorded between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025. The change Pulse detected was a pricing change: plan removed, package change, discount removed.
What changed on Edenai's pricing page between Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025?
Starter plan (FREE) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model; Premium plan ($499/month annual, $599/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model; Complete packaging: subscription tiers → pay-as-you-go model, changed; Professional plan ($166/month annual, $199/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model; Personal plan ($41/month annual, $49/month monthly) discontinued as part of restructure to pay-as-you-go model; discount: Discount → No discount, removed. Pulse compared the captures it took on Oct 1, 2024 and Jan 1, 2025; the before/after table above lists each item as written on the page.
How often does Edenai change its pricing?
Pulse recorded 0 other pricing-page changes for Edenai in the 90 days before this one; the previous change was "Edenai Transforms Pricing Structure to Simplified Pay-as-You-Go and Optional Packs for Enhanced User Experience" in Q1 2024; Edenai has been tracked since 2023-11-14.