How do credits work?
One credit covers any metered action. Bigger monthly commits lower the effective price per credit, and teams that run out can add a one-time credit bundle.
Fig. 2 five-tier model / API-backed values
FIG. 2
Monthly credit tiers
Choose the monthly credit commit that matches your memory workload. The paid rows make the decreasing effective price per credit explicit: $0.0150 for Pro down to $0.0125 for Enterprise in the launch model.
| Plan | Monthly commit | Included credits | Effective $/credit | Credits per $1 | Out of credits | Support | Start |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free Solo developer One personal signup grant to reach the first grounded answer without a card. | $0 | 50 one-time credits | - | - | Buy a bundle | Community | Get started free |
| Pro Power user A monthly commit for individual builders with recurring agent-memory work. | $30 /mo | 2,000 credits/mo | $0.0150 | 66.7 | Buy a bundle | Start Pro | |
| Team Most popular Small team The default commit for small teams sharing a higher monthly memory budget. | $50 /mo | 3,500 credits/mo | $0.0143 | 70.0 | Buy a bundle | Start Team | |
| Business Operating team A larger monthly commit for heavier source sync, recall, and inspection use. | $150 /mo | 11,000 credits/mo | $0.0136 | 73.3 | Buy a bundle | Priority | Start Business |
| Enterprise Platform team Custom procurement, audit needs, and a higher monthly credit floor. | $300+ /mo | 24,000 credits/mo | $0.0125 | 80.0 | Invoiced or bundle | Dedicated plus SLA | Talk to us |
Pro $0.0150 Baseline
Team $0.0143 About 5% cheaper than Pro
Business $0.0136 About 9% cheaper than Pro
Enterprise $0.0125 About 17% cheaper than Pro
Fig. 3 one-time packs / prepaid overflow
FIG. 3
Buy a credit bundle
Bundles cover bursts without changing the monthly plan. Monthly commits still win on effective credit cost, so teams that keep using memory heavily should upgrade the commit instead of living on packs.
Starter Pack $5
A small one-time top-up for testing a new source or workflow.
- Credits
- 100 credits
- Effective $/credit
- $0.0500
Growth Pack $20
A one-time buffer for a batch import or heavier inspection run.
- Credits
- 500 credits
- Effective $/credit
- $0.0400
Pro Pack $60
A larger one-time pack when a monthly commit needs more headroom.
- Credits
- 2,000 credits
- Effective $/credit
- $0.0300
Fig. 4 inspection is the wedge
FIG. 4
Never gated, ever
We don't gate inspection, ever. Credits meter usage, not the right to understand what the memory layer recalled, skipped, reranked, or erased.
WE DON'T GATE INSPECTION, EVER
Inspect, rerank, right-to-erasure, and no-training commitments are
included across Free, Pro, Team, Business, and Enterprise.
Inspect
Source lineage and recall evidence stay available on every tier.
Free
Included
Pro
Included
Team
Included
Business
Included
Enterprise
Included
Rerank
Retrieval quality controls are not reserved for the largest plan.
Free
Included
Pro
Included
Team
Included
Business
Included
Enterprise
Included
Right-to-erasure
Deletion is treated as a product control, not a support exception.
Free
Included
Pro
Included
Team
Included
Business
Included
Enterprise
Included
No training
Customer data is not used to train models across all tiers.
Free
Included
Pro
Included
Team
Included
Business
Included
Enterprise
Included
Fig. 5 pricing mechanics / memory substrate
FIG. 5
Build vs buy
Pricing is one part of the memory substrate. The operating decision is whether your team wants to maintain metering, inspection, deletion, and repricing flows or buy the layer and focus on the agent product.
Credits
Build
You still have to price every action, protect against surprise usage, and explain overages.
Buy
Answer Engine uses prepaid credits with a clean bundle path when a plan runs out.
Inspection
Build
A homegrown memory store usually ships recall first and postpones the evidence trail.
Buy
Inspection, reranking, erasure, and no-training commitments are part of the wedge.
Repricing
Build
Pricing changes require code, docs, checkout, and page updates to stay aligned.
Buy
The pricing page reads billing plans from the API so EPIC 6 repricing flows through.
Fig. 6 crawlable answers / plain HTML
FIG. 6
Pricing FAQ
The core answer is simple: credits meter work, larger commits reduce unit cost, and inspection stays available on every plan.
Why does the price per credit go down?
The model rewards commitment. Pro establishes the list value, then Team, Business, and Enterprise buy larger monthly credit budgets at progressively lower effective rates.
What happens if we run out of credits?
For launch, Answer Engine is prepaid. When a workspace runs out, the product should route users to buy a bundle or move to a larger monthly commit instead of creating surprise metered overages.
Is Free really free?
Free is a one-time 50-credit signup grant for the first grounded answer. It is not a recurring monthly allowance, so the path converts cleanly to Pro when the grant is spent.
Do you gate inspection on higher plans?
No. Answer Engine does not gate inspection, reranking, right-to-erasure, or no-training commitments by tier. Credits meter usage, not the ability to inspect the memory layer.
FIG. 7 - START
Start free, then commit when memory becomes daily infrastructure.
Free gets the first grounded answer. Paid plans make repeated memory work cheaper per credit as the monthly commit increases.
Free: 50-credit signup grant
Pro: $0.0150 per credit baseline
Team: Most popular marker tab
Enterprise: talk to us / custom procurement