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# Plans & billing

> What the plan costs, what it includes, and how credits work

# Plans & billing

## Free and Pro

Three things differ. Everything else is on both plans.

| Plan     | Price            | What jobs paid | Agents   | Credits       |
| -------- | ---------------- | -------------- | -------- | ------------- |
| **Free** | \$0              | —              | —        | 300 once      |
| **Pro**  | $20/mo · $200/yr | Included       | Included | 2,000 a month |

Both plans show a quote's margin before you send it, and both let you mark a job as done.

**What jobs paid** is the other half: recording the hours a finished job really took, so the app can tell you what it actually earned per hour against what you quoted — per job, per service, and per month.

**Agents** research a client, prep a meeting, or brief a site from the record. Both plans get the weekly digest.

Annual billing gives you two months free — pay for 10, get 12, about 17% off. Change your billing cycle any time under **Settings → Plan**.

## What you get

* **Companies and people** — every client, contact, and conversation, with import from CSV or Excel.
* **Pipeline** — track work from the first call to an accepted proposal. The loop ends there; there is no delivery or invoicing stage after it.
* **Proposals** — build a quote from your saved services, reuse text from your content library, and let the client read and accept it in the browser without printing or signing anything.
* **Quote margin** — see what a job earns you before you send the price. Your price book knows your travel, equipment per hour, overhead, and how long each kind of job takes, so every quote carries a margin. On both plans.
* **Proposal analytics** (Pro) — opens, readers, and whether the job makes money, on the proposal's Analytics view. Free can still compose and send.
* **What jobs paid** (Pro) — enter the hours a finished job took and see the real hourly rate beside the one you quoted. Marking a job done works on both plans; the hours and everything derived from them are the Pro part. Once a service has enough finished jobs, the price book tells you which of your services is quietly losing money and what price would fix it.
* **Compliance** — never miss a licence or insurance renewal. Expiring credentials and policies raise a warning and create a task; equipment registration expiry warns too.

Also included, though they are not headline features: send proposals from your own Gmail or Outlook, sync Google Calendar meetings onto a client's timeline, a task list, equipment records, scoped API keys, and the [MCP endpoint](/docs/guides/mcp).

## Starting out

Every new account starts on **Pro** for **14 days** with 2,000 trial credits. No card is required and there is nothing to cancel.

When the trial ends you choose Free or Pro. Choosing **Free** costs nothing and grants 300 credits once — they do not refill. Free runs the whole workflow: clients, pipeline, proposals, price book, equipment, and compliance records, and every quote you build still shows its margin.

A 30-day money-back guarantee applies to a paid plan.

## Credits

Almost everything in the app is unmetered. There are no caps on how many clients, proposals, or drones you add — a row in a database costs us nothing, so charging for it would be arbitrary.

Credits exist for the small number of actions that cost real money to run:

| What happens         | Credits  |
| -------------------- | -------- |
| Ask the assistant    | 5–40     |
| Draft a proposal     | 25       |
| Run an agent         | 40–150   |
| Weekly digest        | **Free** |
| Monthly money review | **Free** |
| Compliance check     | **Free** |
| Proposal review      | **Free** |

Asking the assistant and running an agent are ranges because a quick answer costs less than one where it has to read through a lot of your records. You are charged what it took.

The three free recipes are free because they never call a model — they are arithmetic over records you already have. See [Automations](/docs/features/automations).

Things worth knowing:

* **You are never charged when something fails.** Stopping an answer halfway costs nothing either.
* **Free credits are granted once** and do not refill.
* **Pro credits refill monthly.** Anything unused at the end of the month expires and a fresh allowance is granted. Credits do not carry over on any plan.
* **We warn you at 80% and again at 90%**, so running out is never a surprise. The warning shows in the app and arrives by email; turn the email off under **Settings → Notifications** if you only want the in-app one.
* **When credits run out, the AI actions pause.** The rest of the app keeps working exactly as before, and nothing you have stored is affected.
* Your balance is in the app footer, and **Settings → Plan** shows what each action costs and what you have used.

## Buying more credits

If you run out before your next refill, **Buy credits** on **Settings → Plan** lets you top up. Pick one of the suggested amounts or type your own:

| Credits | Price   |
| ------- | ------- |
| 300     | \$5.00  |
| 600     | \$10.00 |
| 900     | \$15.00 |

You can buy from 300 to 1,200 credits, in steps of 100. Prices hold in euros too — 300 credits is €5 as well as \$5.

Bought credits **never expire**. They sit beside your monthly allowance and are only spent once the monthly ones are gone, so a refill never wipes out something you paid for.

Nothing recharges automatically. You are never charged more than your plan price unless you buy credits yourself.

This is a one-off. If you find yourself buying often, Pro is better value: the most you can buy at once is 1,200 credits for $20, and $20 a month on Pro gives you 2,000 **every** month, plus job history.

## Invoices

Invoices and receipts live under **Settings → Billing & usage**. Payments are handled by Stripe — we never store your card details.