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  "id": "physical-intelligence",
  "name": "Physical Intelligence Pi API",
  "type": "robotics-training-and-inference-api",
  "lastVerifiedAt": "2026-10-14T00:34:54.927602Z",
  "announcementDate": "2026-10-13",
  "availability": {
    "status": "gated-beta",
    "onboarding": "small batches via application",
    "publicSelfServe": false,
    "accessUrl": "https://www.pi.website/waitlist",
    "authorizedAccountAvailable": false
  },
  "pricing": {
    "status": "not-publicly-disclosed",
    "currency": null,
    "billingUnit": null,
    "trainingRate": null,
    "inferenceRate": null,
    "minimumCommitment": null,
    "freeTier": null,
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.pi.website/blog/api-beta",
    "boundary": "No public rate card or free-tier entitlement on the official announcement or application page. Null means undisclosed, not zero. Ask Pi for commercial terms."
  },
  "capabilities": [
    "upload robot demonstration data",
    "managed fine-tuning",
    "fine-tuned model inference via hosted gateway"
  ],
  "modelIdentity": {
    "latestHostedModelId": null,
    "boundary": "The announcement does not name the latest hosted model or expose a public API model identifier. Openpi pi0, pi0-FAST and pi0.5 artifacts are separate, not proof of beta endpoint identity or hosted price."
  },
  "deployment": {
    "cloudInferenceConfirmed": true,
    "localInference": "Application asks about local/cloud/both preferences; local beta availability and terms are not established",
    "networkBoundary": "Official examples note network connectivity challenges; no public latency SLA or universal hardware guarantee."
  },
  "canonicalModelDecision": {
    "newTextModelRows": 0,
    "numericModelPricesChanged": false,
    "reason": "Robot-action service with undisclosed SKU and billing unit cannot be represented as a token-priced text model; maintained separate canonical/API robotics records."
  },
  "labsBlocker": "Batch-onboarded beta; AI Pricing Guru has no approved Pi API account, credentials, pinned hosted model ID or published billing unit/rate. The text suite cannot evaluate robot actions. A valid test needs an authorized robot or simulator, fixed task and policy versions, demonstrations, repeated trials, action/latency/failure traces, success grading and a complete training/inference cost ledger.",
  "sources": {
    "announcement": "https://www.pi.website/blog/api-beta",
    "access": "https://www.pi.website/waitlist",
    "openpi": "https://github.com/Physical-Intelligence/openpi"
  },
  "maintenance": {
    "owner": "aipricing-data",
    "cadenceDays": 1,
    "registryId": "physical-intelligence-api-pricing-2026-10-14",
    "publishTargets": [
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      "/api/robotics/physical-intelligence.json",
      "/physical-intelligence-pricing/",
      "/news/physical-intelligence-api-beta-pricing-impact-october-2026/"
    ]
  },
  "provider": "Physical Intelligence",
  "product": "Pi API beta",
  "betaModelVersion": null,
  "modelAvailability": {
    "beta": "Latest robotics models; exact serving version not named in announcement",
    "openpi": [
      "π0",
      "π0-FAST",
      "π0.5"
    ]
  },
  "comparison": [
    {
      "item": "Model access",
      "beta": "Latest models via managed API; version unspecified",
      "selfManaged": "Published openpi checkpoints; not confirmed equivalent"
    },
    {
      "item": "Training price",
      "beta": "No public rate disclosed",
      "selfManaged": "Your GPU and engineering costs"
    },
    {
      "item": "Inference price",
      "beta": "No public rate or billing unit disclosed",
      "selfManaged": "Your serving hardware and operations"
    },
    {
      "item": "Free tier",
      "beta": "Not announced",
      "selfManaged": "No hosted-service entitlement"
    },
    {
      "item": "Deployment",
      "beta": "Hosted inference demonstrated; local availability unconfirmed",
      "selfManaged": "You operate the policy server"
    }
  ]
}