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Neuralwatt: Energy-based pricing for AI inference. Efficient prompts cost less

Neuralwatt launched the first AI inference API with energy-based pricing, charging per kilowatt-hour instead of per token to provide transparency into power consumption and cost. The platform offers real-time energy metrics per request, claims 40% greater energy efficiency, and supports OpenAI-compatible APIs for seamless integration.

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Neuralwatt: Energy-based pricing for AI inference. Efficient prompts cost less
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Neuralwatt Cloud

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Run Inference with Real Visibility

into Power, Cost, and Efficiency

The first AI inference API with energy-based pricing. Know exactly what your AI costs — in dollars and kilowatt-hours.

Use Neuralwatt Cloud as a hosted service, or bring Neuralwatt Deploy into your own data center.

Try it now #

Send a prompt and see energy-aware inference in action.

Inference Priced by Energy Consumed #

Token-based pricing hides the true cost of AI inference. We're changing that. Pay per kilowatt-hour and know exactly what resources your AI workloads consume.

Transparent

See energy consumption per request. No hidden costs, no opaque token multipliers.

Predictable

Energy costs are consistent. No surprises from model-specific pricing variations.

Efficient

Optimize your AI workloads. Compare energy efficiency across models and make informed decisions.

Why Neuralwatt? #

Three pillars that define every layer of our platform.

Energy Reporting

Every customer gets real-time energy metrics. Know exactly what your AI workloads consume.

  • Per-request energy metrics
  • Dashboard with usage trends
  • Model efficiency comparisons

Performance

State-of-the-art inference powered by vLLM with tensor parallelism, continuous batching, and advanced KV caching.

  • As low as 15ms time to first token

  • High throughput at scale

  • Multi-GPU tensor parallelism

Efficiency

More intelligence per kilowatt-hour. Optimized infrastructure for maximum compute efficiency.

  • 40% more energy efficient
  • Energy-aware scheduling
  • Optimized GPU utilization

Multi-Model API

Access multiple LLMs through a single API. Switch models seamlessly without managing separate connections.

OpenAI Compatible

Drop-in replacement for OpenAI APIs. Just change your base URL and you're ready to go.

The Neuralwatt Platform #

Three integrated capabilities for high-performance, energy-efficient AI — from the data center to the API.

Neuralwatt Cloud

YOU ARE HEREHosted Inference Service

The first AI inference service with energy-based pricing. OpenAI-compatible API with real-time energy transparency per request.

Neuralwatt Deploy

On-Premise Optimization

Bring Neuralwatt's energy optimization directly into your data center. Full control over your hardware, security, and power consumption.

Neuralwatt Optimize

Power Optimization Engine

Intelligent layer between AI workloads and GPUs that continuously tunes power consumption in real time with less than 0.1% performance overhead.

Access the latest open-source models from leading providers. All with OpenAI-compatible APIs.

GPT-OSS 120B

OpenAI

Request Access

Start with Energy-Transparent AI #

Get started with $5 in free credits. Pay per kWh or per token — your choice. Real-time energy reporting included with every account.

Enterprise & Dedicated Inference

Need dedicated GPU capacity, custom SLAs, or on-premises deployment? Our enterprise solutions offer guaranteed performance with full energy transparency.

  • Dedicated GPU infrastructure
  • SLA guarantees up to 99.9%
  • Volume pricing & custom models

Contact Enterprise Sales

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