// Section 12.5 · Concepts
Pricing and Capacity, Stated Honestly
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Pricing is metered from the same credit ledger as ParalleliX AI
(Part VIII.7); 1 credit = 1 $PRLX. The network runs open-source models
(currently 7B-class, for example qwen2.5:7b). The Compute API is a
cheap parallel executor for bulk independent sub-tasks, not a frontier
model, and it is not represented as matching frontier quality.
Capacity is real and finite: it is the set of nodes online at request
time. Large batches queue against that capacity; GET /v1/models and
GET /v1/usage report what is actually available rather than promising
unbounded scale. Metering is custodial, performed by the coordinator,
the same trust model as ParalleliX AI v1.