Auto-Entrepreneur in Algeria: Taxes, CASNOS and the Cost of Your AI Tools

The auto-entrepreneur status has a fixed yearly cost, whatever you earn. See the figures, set them against what your AI tools cost in dinars, and pay both from the same card.

Intermediate3 min readUpdated October 5, 2026

In this article

Know the fixed costs of the auto-entrepreneur status.
Work out your yearly bill from your own turnover.
Set your AI tools' cost beside it, in dinars.

The auto-entrepreneur card lets a freelancer work in the open: declare income, invoice Algerian companies, open an account. It also comes with costs you pay every year, even in a quiet one.

This article puts those figures next to the cost of the AI tools you work with, so you can plan the year in dinars.

Know the fixed costs

Two payments come back every year: your tax and your social contribution.

The IFU is the single flat-rate tax of the auto-entrepreneur. Its role is to replace several taxes with one percentage of your turnover.

For an auto-entrepreneur, the IFU is 0.5% of yearly turnover, under the 2024 Finance Law. The CASNOS contribution, the self-employed social security, is a flat 24,000 DA a year. Both figures were checked on 5 October 2026.

If I earn very little one year, do I still pay?

Yes. The IFU has a floor of 10,000 DA a year, due even when turnover is zero. With the CASNOS contribution, your fixed cost is at least 34,000 DA a year.

The status has a ceiling: 5,000,000 DA of turnover a year. Plan your growth with that line in mind.

Set your tools beside it

Your AI tools are a cost too, and a variable one. You pay them by the message, so you control them month by month.

Let's see right away how the two compare.

One month of fixed costs and AI use

34,000 DA a year makes about 2,833 DA a month. 1,000 messages a month on GPT-6 Luna cost about 110 DA; on Claude Sonnet 5, about 2,180 DA. Prices from the model pages, read on 5 October 2026.

The AI cost is the part you choose. A lighter model for drafts and a stronger one for the final pass keeps it low.

Pay a foreign subscription through a reseller, with no receipt to keep.

Pay your tools in dinars from your own Edahabia or CIB card, and keep each deposit with your records.

The Edahabia card you used to register can fund your OpenDunes balance directly. One card, one currency, one trail.

Your turn

Context: your turnover this year is 1,200,000 DA, and you send about 900 messages a month on GPT-6 Luna.

Task: in a spreadsheet, work out your IFU, your fixed costs for the year, and your AI cost for the year.

Show the answer

0.5% of 1,200,000 DA is 6,000 DA, below the 10,000 DA floor, so your IFU is 10,000 DA. With CASNOS, your fixed costs are 34,000 DA. Your AI cost: 900 × 0.11 DA, about 99 DA a month, about 1,188 DA a year.

In short

The auto-entrepreneur's IFU is 0.5% of turnover, with a floor of 10,000 DA a year.
The CASNOS flat contribution is 24,000 DA a year.
The status stops at 5,000,000 DA of turnover a year.
Your AI tools are the variable cost: about 0.11 DA a message on GPT-6 Luna, paid in dinars.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I declare my AI tools as an expense?

Under the IFU, you pay a percentage of turnover, not of profit, so expenses do not lower the tax. Keep your deposit records anyway: they show what your work costs.

Do I have to use CASNOS's flat contribution?

The flat 24,000 DA a year is the option made for auto-entrepreneurs. Another scheme exists at a percentage of income; ask CASNOS which fits you.

Is this tax advice?

No. It sets out the published figures as of 5 October 2026. For your own declaration, ask the tax office or an accountant.

You now know what the status costs and where your tools sit beside it. In the next article, we write ad copy in Darija with a model, for the shops many freelancers work for. See you there!

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