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

# Estimate

> Token cost estimate. Duration-billed (per second × cameras); actual runs bill the
real capped clip durations, so treat this as the price of the stated assumptions.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /v1/augmentations/estimate
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Kite Platform API
  description: >-
    Public API for Kite. Authenticate with `Authorization: Bearer kite_...`, and
    send `Kite-Version: 2026-09-27` to pin the dated contract your code was
    written against (without it you get 2026-09-27). Every response carries the
    version that served it.
  version: '2026-09-27'
servers:
  - url: https://api.kiteml.com
    description: Kite Platform API
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Augmentations
    description: Generate new episodes from a LeRobot dataset.
  - name: Training runs
    description: Fine-tune a policy on a dataset, one run per policy.
  - name: Twins
    description: Rebuild a robot episode as an interactable MuJoCo scene (private beta).
  - name: Catalog
    description: Policies, hardware tiers, and dataset inspection.
  - name: Operations
    description: Poll any run by its id.
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Endpoints that receive events, and the event log.
  - name: API keys
    description: The key making the request.
  - name: Usage
    description: Token usage and credit balance.
paths:
  /v1/augmentations/estimate:
    post:
      tags:
        - Augmentations
      summary: Estimate
      description: >-
        Token cost estimate. Duration-billed (per second × cameras); actual runs
        bill the

        real capped clip durations, so treat this as the price of the stated
        assumptions.
      operationId: estimate_v1_augmentations_estimate_post
      parameters:
        - $ref: '#/components/parameters/KiteVersion'
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/AugmentationEstimate'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: What the run would cost
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AugmentationEstimateResult'
        '400':
          description: >-
            Invalid request (`parameter_invalid`, `unsupported_version`, ...);
            `param` names the field
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API key (`unauthenticated`)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
        '403':
          description: >-
            The key lacks a scope this route needs (`missing_scope`), or the
            feature is not enabled for the account
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
        '429':
          description: >-
            Rate or concurrency limited (`rate_limit_exceeded`,
            `concurrency_limit_exceeded`, `capacity_exceeded`); honor
            `Retry-After`
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorResponse'
components:
  parameters:
    KiteVersion:
      name: Kite-Version
      in: header
      required: false
      description: >-
        The dated contract your code was written against. Without it you get
        2026-09-27; every response says which version served it.
      schema:
        type: string
        enum:
          - '2026-09-27'
        default: '2026-09-27'
  schemas:
    AugmentationEstimate:
      properties:
        episode_count:
          type: integer
          maximum: 500
          minimum: 1
          title: Episode Count
        seconds_per_episode:
          type: number
          maximum: 60
          exclusiveMinimum: 0
          title: Seconds Per Episode
          default: 30
        cameras_per_episode:
          type: integer
          maximum: 8
          minimum: 1
          title: Cameras Per Episode
          default: 1
      type: object
      required:
        - episode_count
      title: AugmentationEstimate
    AugmentationEstimateResult:
      properties:
        object:
          type: string
          enum:
            - augmentation_estimate
          const: augmentation_estimate
          title: Object
          default: augmentation_estimate
        tokens:
          type: integer
          title: Tokens
          description: '`tokens_per_episode` × `episode_count`'
        tokens_per_episode:
          type: integer
          title: Tokens Per Episode
          description: Billed per second of clip, per camera
        assumptions:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/AugmentationEstimate'
          description: The request, with its defaults filled in
      type: object
      required:
        - tokens
        - tokens_per_episode
        - assumptions
      title: AugmentationEstimateResult
      examples:
        - assumptions:
            cameras_per_episode: 1
            episode_count: 3
            seconds_per_episode: 30
          object: augmentation_estimate
          tokens: 32670
          tokens_per_episode: 10890
    ApiErrorResponse:
      properties:
        error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiErrorBody'
      type: object
      required:
        - error
      title: ApiErrorResponse
      description: Every /v1 error has this shape.
    ApiErrorBody:
      properties:
        type:
          type: string
          title: Type
          description: >-
            invalid_request_error, authentication_error, permission_error,
            not_found_error, conflict_error, rate_limit_error, or api_error
        code:
          type: string
          title: Code
          description: 'Machine-readable: branch on this, not on the message'
        message:
          type: string
          title: Message
        param:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Param
          description: The request field the error is about, when there is one
        request_id:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Request Id
          description: Also in the X-Request-Id header; quote it to support
        details:
          anyOf:
            - type: object
            - type: 'null'
          title: Details
          description: >-
            Extra data for some codes (e.g. the cameras a dataset does have, for
            camera_not_found)
      type: object
      required:
        - type
        - code
        - message
      title: ApiErrorBody
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        A Kite API key (`kite_...`), from **Platform API → Keys** in the
        dashboard.

````