> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.costgraph.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# fal.ai

> Bring fal.ai model endpoint cost into CostGraph, pulled by us or pushed by you

fal.ai hosts generative media models behind API endpoints and bills each endpoint
in its own unit, such as images, seconds of video, or GPU time.

CostGraph reads fal.ai as **FOCUS 1.2** records at a grain of one record per model
endpoint per billing unit per API key per day.

## Choose how the data reaches us

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="CostGraph pulls it" icon="cloud-arrow-down">
    You supply read-only credentials and we call fal.ai once a day. Nothing to run.
  </Card>

  <Card title="You push it" icon="cloud-arrow-up">
    You send us FOCUS records over the API. Credentials never leave your infrastructure.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Before you begin

* In the fal dashboard, open **Keys** and create an API key with the **Billing**
  permission preset.

## Let CostGraph pull

1. Open **Settings > Integrations** and pick **fal.ai**.
2. Name the connection and pick the tenant these charges belong to.
3. Enter the values you copied. The form lists what fal.ai needs and marks the
   optional ones.
4. Select **Connect**.

CostGraph verifies the credentials with a short fetch before saving, so a wrong
value or a missing permission fails while you are still on the form.

<Note>
  Credentials are encrypted at rest and used only to read billing data. Revoke them in
  fal.ai at any time and the connection stops; nothing else is affected.
</Note>

## Push it yourself

Send the charges to CostGraph as FOCUS records instead. [Push FOCUS data](/costgraph/integrations/focus-push) covers the connection id,
the `focus:write` key, and the request shape.

## Run the exporter

Rather than build that request yourself, run our exporter. It reads fal.ai on a
schedule and pushes the records for you, wherever you want to run it: a container, a
Kubernetes `CronJob`, or a binary on a machine you already have.

```bash theme={null}
focus-exporter --provider fal --sink costgraph
```

Your fal.ai credential stays where you put it, and only the finished FOCUS records
reach CostGraph. [Run the exporter](/costgraph/integrations/exporter) covers the three
ways to run it and the variables it reads.

## What CostGraph does with it

Records land as raw billing rows, are normalised into line items, and roll up into
daily cost. From there fal.ai spend appears in Cost Overview and in anomaly detection
alongside every other provider. fal.ai reports usage before it invoices, so the cost is an estimate until fal.ai invoices it. Spend is split per model endpoint and per API key, with
any discount applied shown on the line, so you can see which model and which key drive
the bill.


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