Plans, credits, and the welcome credit
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idapt gives you two ways to pay for AI: your Credit balance (a prepaid dollar balance that settles every model), and a subscription that raises your limits and unlocks paid features. Every new account starts with a one-time $0.50 welcome credit inside its balance 📊
The free tier is permanent: every signed-in account gets it, and you keep it if you cancel a plan. Your data stays and your balance, with any remaining welcome credit, keeps working.
Every request bills one place: your Credit balance.
Your Credit balance: the prepaid dollar balance that settles every model and paid tool at the prices shown in the app. Every signed-in account can add credits, with or without a plan, and your first top-up (from $5) permanently unlocks the full model catalog.
The welcome credit: $0.50 of free credits added once at signup, no card required. It sits in the same balance and covers operations priced at most $1. It is one-time and does not refill.
A subscription:
Pro or Max, whether you work alone or with a team, billed monthly or annually, and Enterprise for contract billing. A plan raises your limits (chats at once, sub-agents per chat, cloud computers, seats, storage) and unlocks paid features like video and GPU computers. It never changes how usage is billed.
BYOK provider keys and Local AI (open models on your own computer) are completely free lanes on every account. See Credits and auto top-up and Run models locally.
New accounts get $0.50 of free credits at signup, no card required. The credit spends like any credits in your balance, with one restriction: it only covers operations priced at most $1. That is the $ (Affordable) chat models, images, audio, tools, and the smallest cloud-computer size.
Pricier models stay locked until your first top-up: one top-up unlocks every model permanently. See Choosing models and When a model is locked.
A subscription raises your limits and unlocks paid features: more chats at once, more sub-agents per chat, more cloud computers, more team seats, more storage, video and GPU access, and higher Action ceilings. It is a rights upgrade. Usage itself always bills the same way as every account: from your Credit balance, at the prices shown in the app.
Because there is no included-usage allowance to run out of, usage bills the same on every tier: from your balance, at the prices shown in the app. A funded balance is what keeps work flowing.
To subscribe, change plans, or cancel, see Manage your subscription.
idapt tells you exactly which limit you hit and what to do about it. It never silently charges you.
What you see | What to do |
|---|---|
Your free credit is used up | Add credits to keep going. The welcome credit is one-time, so there is nothing to wait for, and one top-up unlocks every model. |
A pricier model is locked | Add credits to unlock every model. Your first top-up makes it permanent. |
Not enough credits | Add credits, or turn on auto top-up so it refills on its own. |
A team limit was reached | A billing admin for the team can lift it. |
idapt never silently charges you. Every wall names the limit you hit and the fastest remedy, and nothing bills beyond the price you saw before you sent.
Every model wears a cost band in the picker, from a green $ for the cheapest up to $$$$ for frontier models. Before you send, you also see the estimated cost of the message next to the send button.
Every model shows its price up front, and usage is billed from your balance at the prices shown in the app. See Choosing models to compare bands and capabilities.
Naming a new chat is a model call, billed the same way. A title costs a fraction of a cent and appears in your usage history as Title. You can pick which model names your chats, or turn auto-titling off, in Settings.
Your plan sets how much you can store in your Drive:
Free: 1 GB
Pro: 500 GB
Max: 2 TB
Storage up to your cap is included with your plan and is never metered. When you reach the cap, free up space or upgrade for more room. See Drive: files and folders.
Cloud-computer compute bills your balance per second at the prices shown in the app. On the free tier the smallest size (standard.xs) runs on your welcome credit, capped at 60 minutes per session and 15 minutes of idle. See Cloud computers.
Your plan, Credit balance, invoices, and usage live on the billing pages, not in a settings menu:
Open Billing from the account menu, or go to /app/billing, to see your balance, buy credits, set up auto top-up, and find invoices.
Go to /app/activity to see your spend history and spending chart.
On a subscription, the account menu shows your Credit balance with a + to add credits without leaving your chat.
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