Plotra DocsPlans 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, with no time limit and no card. Pro is more room, more collaborators and hosted AI: $10 a month covers the whole workspace, so a writing group of five pays $2 each.
Start on FreeEvery feature is on the Free plan. No card needed.
A team that needs more than Pro can arrange an Enterprise plan. Its limits, terms and price are worked out with the team: write to sudhan@plotra.ink.
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 | 50 MB | 50 GB |
| One uploaded file | 10 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.
When Pro is worth it
Free is enough to write a book on. A workspace moves to Pro when one of these is true:
- You have more than a few people. Free holds 3 members and 5 guests per project. Pro holds 25 members and 200 guests, which covers a writing group, a full round of beta readers or a table of players, at the same $10.
- You are running out of room. Maps, reference images and version snapshots fill 50 MB quickly. Pro has 50 GB, a thousand times more, and takes files up to 100 MB.
- You have more than 10 projects. A series, its spin-offs and a campaign or two get there. Pro has no project limit.
- You want the AI agent without setting anything up. On Pro nobody in the workspace needs an API key or a local model.
The price is per workspace, so it doesn't rise as people join. Paying yearly is $96, which is $8 a month. A first payment is refunded in full if you ask within 14 days, and going back to Free deletes nothing, so trying Pro costs you nothing if it isn't for you.
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.
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 in the README.
Project settings
Shape a project to your medium: its type, modules, status workflow, its own words, labels and kinds, and the ribbon you see it through.
Limits on the hosted version
No limit locks a feature, deletes your work or blocks export. What the limits are on each plan, why they exist, and what happens when you reach one.