Plans and billing
The Free and Pro plans on the hosted version, what an AI credit is, and how to upgrade, cancel or go back to Free.
The hosted version of Plotra has two plans, Free and Pro. A plan belongs to a workspace, not to a person: everyone in a Pro workspace gets its limits, and nobody pays per seat.
No feature is locked behind Pro. Every view and module is on Free. Pro is higher limits, more collaborators and hosted AI.
If you run Plotra yourself there are no plans at all. See Self-hosting below.
The plans
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $10 a month, or $96 a year ($8 a month, 20% less), per workspace |
| Projects per workspace | 10 | Unlimited |
| Storage per workspace | 1 GB | 50 GB |
| One uploaded file | 25 MB | 100 MB |
| Workspace members | 3, counting the owner | 25 |
| Guests per shared project | 5 | 200 |
| Views, modules and features | All of them | All of them |
| AI agent on your own key or a local model | Yes | Yes, and it uses no credits |
| Hosted AI | No | 1,500 credits a month |
| Export | Always | Always |
- Storage counts uploaded files and version snapshots.
- A member belongs to the workspace and can open every project in it. The owner counts as one.
- A guest is someone a single project is shared with, as a viewer, commenter or editor, who is not a member of the workspace. A beta reader or an outside editor is a guest. See Working together.
What happens when you reach a limit is in Limits on the hosted version.
Hosted AI and credits
On Free, the AI agent runs on your own API key or on a model on your own computer. That works on Pro too.
Pro adds hosted AI: the agent runs on a model Plotra provides, so nobody in the workspace needs a key. It is paid for with credits.
- A Pro workspace gets 1,500 credits each billing period, shared by everyone in it.
- 1 credit is 1,000 input tokens, the text the model reads.
- Output tokens count five times: 1,000 tokens the model writes cost 5 credits.
- Credits reset when the billing period renews. Unused credits don't roll over.
- A run on your own key or a local model uses no credits.
For example, a run that reads 20,000 tokens of your notes and writes 2,000 tokens costs 20 + 10 = 30 credits.
On a hosted run, the notes the agent reads are sent to the model provider Plotra uses, not to a provider you chose. The privacy page on the Plotra site says more.
Upgrading
Open Workspace settings → Plan & billing and choose monthly or yearly. You are taken to a checkout page run by Creem. When the payment goes through, the workspace is on Pro.
Payments are handled by Creem (creem.io), which is the merchant of record. Creem charges your card, adds sales tax or VAT where it applies, and sends the invoice. Plotra never sees your card: it stores only a customer id, a subscription id and the state of the subscription.
Cancelling
Cancel at any time from Workspace settings → Plan & billing. The subscription stops renewing, and the workspace stays on Pro until the end of the period you already paid for. Then it goes back to Free.
Going back to Free
A workspace that goes back to Free keeps all its data: every project, note, file and version.
- Nothing is deleted, and nothing becomes read-only.
- You can't add beyond the Free limits. A workspace with 14 projects keeps all 14 and can write in them, but can't create a 15th until it has fewer than 10.
- Hosted AI stops. The agent still works on your own key.
- Export always works.
Self-hosting
A Plotra you run yourself is free, under the AGPL-3.0, with no plans. Its limits are environment variables you set, and no billing code runs unless you set CREEM_API_KEY. See Self-hosting.
Sponsoring
Plotra also takes sponsorship through GitHub Sponsors. Sponsoring is a gift: it doesn't change a workspace's plan or limits. What the hosted version costs to run is on the Sponsor page of the Plotra site.