{"slug": "neuralwatt-energy-based-pricing-for-ai-inference-efficient-prompts-cost-less", "title": "Neuralwatt: Energy-based pricing for AI inference. Efficient prompts cost less", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "Neuralwatt Cloud\n\n#\nRun Inference with Real Visibility\n\ninto Power, Cost, and Efficiency\n\nThe first AI inference API with energy-based pricing. Know exactly what your AI costs —\nin dollars *and* kilowatt-hours.\n\nUse Neuralwatt Cloud as a hosted service, or bring Neuralwatt Deploy into your own data center.\n\n## Try it now\n\nSend a prompt and see energy-aware inference in action.\n\n## Inference Priced by Energy Consumed\n\nToken-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.\n\n### Transparent\n\nSee energy consumption per request. No hidden costs, no opaque token multipliers.\n\n### Predictable\n\nEnergy costs are consistent. No surprises from model-specific pricing variations.\n\n### Efficient\n\nOptimize your AI workloads. Compare energy efficiency across models and make informed decisions.\n\n## Why Neuralwatt?\n\nThree pillars that define every layer of our platform.\n\n### Energy Reporting\n\nEvery customer gets real-time energy metrics. Know exactly what your AI workloads consume.\n\n- Per-request energy metrics\n- Dashboard with usage trends\n- Model efficiency comparisons\n\n### Performance\n\nState-of-the-art inference powered by vLLM with tensor parallelism, continuous batching, and advanced KV caching.\n\n- As low as 15ms time to first token\n- High throughput at scale\n- Multi-GPU tensor parallelism\n\n### Efficiency\n\nMore intelligence per kilowatt-hour. Optimized infrastructure for maximum compute efficiency.\n\n- 40% more energy efficient\n- Energy-aware scheduling\n- Optimized GPU utilization\n\n### Multi-Model API\n\nAccess multiple LLMs through a single API. Switch models seamlessly without managing separate connections.\n\n### OpenAI Compatible\n\nDrop-in replacement for OpenAI APIs. Just change your base URL and you're ready to go.\n\n## The Neuralwatt Platform\n\nThree integrated capabilities for high-performance, energy-efficient AI — from the data center to the API.\n\n### Neuralwatt Cloud\n\nYOU ARE HEREHosted Inference Service\n\nThe first AI inference service with energy-based pricing. OpenAI-compatible API with real-time energy transparency per request.\n\n### Neuralwatt Deploy\n\nOn-Premise Optimization\n\nBring Neuralwatt's energy optimization directly into your data center. Full control over your hardware, security, and power consumption.\n\n### Neuralwatt Optimize\n\nPower Optimization Engine\n\nIntelligent layer between AI workloads and GPUs that continuously tunes power consumption in real time with less than 0.1% performance overhead.\n\n## Featured Models\n\nAccess the latest open-source models from leading providers. All with OpenAI-compatible APIs.\n\n### GPT-OSS 120B\n\nOpenAI\n\n[Request Access](/models)\n\n## Start with Energy-Transparent AI\n\nGet started with $5 in free credits. Pay per kWh or per token — your choice. Real-time energy reporting included with every account.\n\n### Enterprise & Dedicated Inference\n\nNeed dedicated GPU capacity, custom SLAs, or on-premises deployment? Our enterprise solutions offer guaranteed performance with full energy transparency.\n\n- Dedicated GPU infrastructure\n- SLA guarantees up to 99.9%\n- Volume pricing & custom models\n\n[Contact Enterprise Sales](/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c1a8afa7ae81afa4b4b3a0adb6a0b5b5efa2aeac)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neuralwatt-energy-based-pricing-for-ai-inference-efficient-prompts-cost-less", "canonical_source": "https://portal.neuralwatt.com/", "published_at": "2026-06-21 16:09:18+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-21 16:34:43.041325+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "generative-ai", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Neuralwatt", "Neuralwatt Cloud", "Neuralwatt Deploy", "Neuralwatt Optimize", "vLLM", "OpenAI", "GPT-OSS 120B"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neuralwatt-energy-based-pricing-for-ai-inference-efficient-prompts-cost-less", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neuralwatt-energy-based-pricing-for-ai-inference-efficient-prompts-cost-less.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neuralwatt-energy-based-pricing-for-ai-inference-efficient-prompts-cost-less.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/neuralwatt-energy-based-pricing-for-ai-inference-efficient-prompts-cost-less.jsonld"}}