Pay for what you build.

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Credits are units Freebuff uses to measure and pay for usage across your workspace. Credits let you build apps, run deployed apps, and power AI features from one balance. The value of a credit and the rate at which they are consumed for a given action depend on your subscription plan and the feature used, and credits are not necessarily equal in value across different plans.

Paid plans have access to a credit balance. Credits from your balance can be used in Freebuff for building by sending messages to Freebuff, hosting with Cloud, and offering AI features to users as part of your app. In addition to your credit balance, Pro and Business subscriptions include grants for building and hosting with Cloud. For building, pricing varies by mode: Default Mode credits vary based on task complexity, while Plan Mode costs 1 credit per message. For example, "Make the button gray" costs about 0.50 credits, "Remove the footer" about 0.90, "Add authentication with sign up and login" about 1.20, and "Build me a landing page, use images" about 1.70. You can see the cost of each message in the message history by hovering over the three dots of a message.

Yes. If unused, monthly plan credits expire two (2) months after they're issued, and annual plan credits expire one (1) month after your annual period ends. Top-up credits last twelve (12) months from purchase. Included grants of daily build credits expire at the end of each day and don't roll over.

If you cancel your plan, you can keep using your remaining credits until the end of your current billing period. After that, your plan switches to Free and you only have access to grants included in the free plan. If your workspace has unused paid credits left, they will reactivate if you re-subscribe to any plan at any point before expiry.

No. Credits aren't refundable or redeemable for cash or any other value.

Starting to build on Freebuff is free. The free plan includes a daily grant of 5 build credits (up to 30 a month), plus monthly grants of 20 Cloud credits. The free plan also grants 4 credits usable by AI features built into user apps, to try the feature before subscribing. Paid subscribers get their plan's credits added to their balance monthly. This balance can be used flexibly to cover building, Cloud, and AI features in user apps. On top, subscriptions include daily grants of 5 build credits and a monthly grant of 20 Cloud credits.

Every Freebuff plan belongs to a workspace, and everyone you invite into that workspace shares its credits. To fund a group of people, upgrade one workspace to a plan with enough monthly credits for everyone, then invite the whole group. Everyone builds from the shared credit pool on one subscription and one invoice, and each member can work on as many of their own projects as they want.

No. Workspaces support unlimited members on all plans, and plans are priced by the credits they include, not by seats. Inviting more people doesn't change your subscription cost; what changes is how quickly the group uses the workspace's shared credits.

For most users with smaller or new apps, hosting (running an app on Freebuff) does not cost anything: In most cases, the cost to publish, view, and keep your app running will be minimal and fully covered by the included grant that comes with your subscription. Apps that reach significant visitor traffic and/or size may start incurring cost on top of the included grant, which is covered by your credit balance.

The higher price reflects the additional features Business adds on top of Pro for teams and larger organizations. Important: The cost for running their app and for AI features built into apps is the same for Business and Pro subscribers and not more expensive on the business plan.

You do. You own your code, which means the apps, websites, and other projects you build with Freebuff, customer data stored in Freebuff, as well as any AI output you generate in Freebuff. (This is subject to any third-party rights in the underlying AI models.)

Yes, we offer a student discount for students with a valid student email. You can read more and claim your discount on freebuff.dev/students. Make sure you are logged in with your university email address.

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