Inferray vs kie.ai
kie.ai and Inferray overlap on chat and image models and differ on almost everything else: kie.ai is built around media generation, Inferray around the OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs and coding agents.
Competitor details were checked against their official pages on November 4, 2026. Prices and limits change; follow the links to confirm.
The short version
| kie.ai | Inferray | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Video, image, music and chat models | Text and image models, coding agents |
| Pricing | Pay-as-you-go credits (1 credit ≈ $0.005), billed per image, per second, per video or per million tokens | List price per token or per image, no gateway fee |
| Subscriptions | None | Optional Token Plans: $60 of usage for $20 |
| Credit expiry | Never | Never |
| Failed requests | "Failed tasks are never charged" | Not billed without a result; tokens processed before a part-way failure are |
| Image API | Asynchronous: create a task, then poll or receive a callback | The OpenAI images endpoint: one request, one response |
| Text API | Chat models, plus Claude Code and Codex setup | OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible |
kie.ai details are from its pricing page, home page and documentation, as of November 4, 2026.
Where kie.ai is the better fit
- Video, music and speech. kie.ai sells all three. We don't, and won't pretend to.
- A wide media catalog across many labs' video and image models.
Where Inferray is the better fit
- Keep your SDK. Images come from
/v1/images/generations, the same call the OpenAI SDK already makes. Text models answer on Chat Completions, Responses and the Anthropic Messages API, so existing code and coding agents work unchanged. - List price you can check. Every model is billed at its lab's published list price, with no gateway fee on top.
- Monthly plans for coding agents. Token Plans buy 3× their price in usage, with no 5-hour or weekly windows.
The image models, at list price:
| Model | Input / 1M | Cached / 1M | Output / 1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3 Pro Image | from $0.134 / image | 66K | ||
| Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 | from $0.034 / image | 131K | ||
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Image | from $0.045 / image | 131K | ||
And the text models most people move over:
| Model | Input / 1M | Cached / 1M | Output / 1M | Context |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 5.5 | $4 | $0.2 | $20 | 1M |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | $2 | $0.1 | $10 | 1.1M |
| Gemini 4 Argon | $4 | $0.2 | $20 | 1.0M |
| Kimi K3 | $3 | $0.3 | $15 | 1.0M |
Prices on this page come from the model catalog and were current on November 12, 2026.