LU Cloud and Backyard AI
Message allowances, model access and context ceilings answer different questions. Compare the workflow you need, not raw credit counts. This is not a performance benchmark or a price-per-token ranking.
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| Question | Backyard AI | LU Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Payment and model access | Monthly subscriptions are USD 12 for Standard and USD 35 for Pro. Standard includes its listed Standard models; Pro includes Standard plus Pro models. These are tier-specific selections, not access to every open-weight model.: Backyard AI subscriptions | Credit packs start at EUR 15 for 450,000 credits without a subscription. Review the model capabilities and calculator for your workload; credit units from different services are not interchangeable.: LU packs and calculator |
| Message allowance | The comparison table lists 300 messages per week for Free and unlimited messages for Standard and Pro. These are app messaging allowances, not evidence of an unlimited developer API or a guaranteed response speed.: Backyard AI messaging limits | Flash app sessions have a 500,000 combined input/output token allowance per account per day. Reservations that cannot fit follow the visible credit path. API keys use credits, including for Flash models; the Flash allowance on an active paid plan does not apply to API keys.: LU allowance and API billing |
| Context and request capacity | The plan cards list a maximum context of 16,384 tokens for Standard and 100,000 for Pro. The comparison table qualifies Pro as up to 100k. These plan ceilings do not establish identical context support across all included models.: Backyard AI context limits | The Flash app-session path on an active paid plan admits one request at a time per account. Paid request limits and model capabilities are published separately. Full native context for every model is not promised.: LU request limits and model capabilities |
Check model fit before choosing a plan
A message-count allowance does not describe message length, concurrency or application compatibility. Check the current model list and the requirements of your intended workflow before subscribing or buying credits.
Read LU's cloud capabilities and restrictions before buying. Hosted requests leave your machine, and image and video generation have content restrictions. Local inference depends on your hardware and backend.