Top up $1 and your account gains $20 in credit

Credit is deducted per token, and how much depends on the model — cheap models run for a long time, flagship models burn faster. The exact deduction of every call is in the console request log.

$1 of sign-up credit ≈ 6.67M input tokens on z-ai/glm-5.3-flash, the lowest-priced model in the catalog at $0.15 per 1M tokens in credit. Every $1 you top up becomes $20 in credit ≈ 133M input tokens on that same model.

Limited-time rate

The 1:20 top-up rate ends 2026-09-30. From 2026-10-01, every $1 adds $10 of credit instead.

Top-up to credit conversion at a limited-time 1 : 20 rate (reverts to 1:10 afterwards)
You payCredit received
$5$100
$10$200
$50$1,000
$100$2,000

Not a plan tier — there is no amount threshold; any top-up converts at the same rate.

Billing
Credit is deducted per token of usage. No calls, no charges.
Monthly fee
None. No subscription threshold or minimum spend either.
New users
$1 credit on sign-up, no card required.
Credit exhausted
The API returns 429. Top up at https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/app/billing — it recovers immediately, and keys stay valid.

What a dollar buys

Every model, priced in what you actually pay

The rates on the models page are in USD credit. Divide by the current 20:1 top-up rate and you get the cash column below — the dollars that leave your card per 1M input tokens. The third column is the same figure read the other way round: how many input tokens one dollar buys.

Cash price, tokens per dollar, and the multiple against each vendor's own published price, for all 11 models
Model IDYou pay / 1M input$1 buysvs vendor official
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash$0.0075133M20×$0.152a cheaper cache-hit tier also exists
deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash$0.01100M15×$0.151,2off-peak rate; a cheaper cache-hit tier also exists
qwen/qwen3.8-flash$0.01100M11.3×$0.1133cheapest of its six regional price tables
deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro$0.02540M26.4×$0.661,2off-peak rate; a cheaper cache-hit tier also exists
moonshotai/kimi-k2.6$0.047521.1MOfficial price unverified
z-ai/glm-5.2$0.0714.3M20×$1.402a cheaper cache-hit tier also exists
z-ai/glm-5.3$0.0714.3M20×$1.402a cheaper cache-hit tier also exists
moonshotai/kimi-k3$0.156.67M20×$3.002a cheaper cache-hit tier also exists

Vendor official prices verified 2026-08-26–2026-09-18. Sources are listed on the price comparison page.

  • 1off-peak rate
  • 2a cheaper cache-hit tier also exists
  • 3cheapest of its six regional price tables
  • The cash column is the credit rate divided by 20, the current limited-time top-up rate. When it reverts to 1:10, every figure in the last two columns halves.
  • "vs vendor official" compares against the model vendor's own published list price, taking their cheapest published tier — DeepSeek's off-peak rate, Alibaba's cheapest region and shortest input tier, and cache-miss pricing throughout. Aggregator prices are not used here; they are on the comparison page.
  • OpenAI uses Standard processing with up to 272K input tokens; GPT-5.6 Sol uses its current promotional rate.
  • Not every model has a comparable figure. For 1 of the 8 we have not verified a price on the vendor's own page. A blank cell means we found no source we could cite, not that the model is cheap.
  • Vendor APIs bill cached input far below their cache-miss rate, and we have no equivalent tier. On workloads that hit the cache constantly, the vendor can be cheaper than us — the comparison page has the numbers.

Up front

"$1 becomes $20" is limited-time credit, not a discount coupon

Current limited-time offer: you pay $1 and your account gains $20 in credit (reverts to 1:10 afterwards). Credit burns at each model's multiplier, which varies widely — so it is not "official pricing at 5% off". Treat the actual deductions in the request log as the real cost.

Invitations

Bring someone with you and you both get credit

Every account has an invitation link in the console. When someone signs up through it, you and they each receive $1 in credit, once. Sign-up credit still applies on top, so an invited account starts with $2 in credit — about 13.3M input tokens on z-ai/glm-5.3-flash — without adding a card.

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Sign in and your account opens automatically with a default key and $1 in credit. No card, no forms.