Pricing

sidanclaw runs on credits. One credit is roughly one Pro chat message; the tier menu lets you spend fewer credits per message for routine work, or more for premium reasoning. Billing is monthly and scoped to a workspace, not a user.

Plan ladder

Five plans. Free starts every account; the paid plans differ only in monthly credit allocation. There is no per-seat fee. Inviting teammates to a workspace never changes the bill.

Free$0 / month
125 credits / month

One owned workspace cap. Standard / Pro / Max tier picker is unlocked.

Pro$20 / month
1,000 credits / month

Default plan for solo founders and small teams. Includes the 30-day Pro trial on every new workspace.

Max 5x$100 / month
5,000 credits / month

Heavy-use teams. 5x the Pro allocation at 5x the price; the math lives in overage breakeven.

Max 10x$200 / month
10,000 credits / month

Whole-business workflows + dense agentic work. 10x the Pro allocation.

EnterpriseCustom
Custom credit allocation

SSO, audit log, security floors, custom data residency, Outpost (self-hosted brain), SLA.

The tier menu

Each message costs credits based on the tier you pick in the chat header. Standard is the cheap workhorse, Pro is the default, Max is the premium tier. Background work (extraction, embeddings, classifiers) always runs on Standard and is bundled into the message price (you are never charged separately for it).

TierCredits / messageCurrent modelUse
Standard1 creditGemini Flash 3Routine queries, status checks, quick lookups. Same model as Pro, capped at a tighter tool budget. Cheaper for quick work.
Pro2 creditsGemini Flash 3Default tier. Balanced reasoning for most work.
Max10 creditsGemini Flash 3.5Premium tier for hard reasoning and deep agentic work where the model must call many tools in one turn (doubled turn budget).
Research20 creditsGemini Pro 3.1Deep web research: runs the strongest reasoning model on a long multi-step budget to synthesise across many sources. Opt in per turn; Max-plan only, with a free-tier taster quota.

Overage & policies

Overage rate
$30 / 1,000 credits
When you run out of credits before the cycle ends, the default policy is a hard limit (new messages return 429 or force-downgrade to Standard). Admins can opt into paid overage at $30/1,000 credits with a monthly cap. A separate daily LLM-cost safety cap may also force Standard for the rest of the day if a single 24-hour window blows past 3x the workspace's monthly plan price.

Free trial

Every new workspace gets a 30-day Pro trial (1,000 credits/month, full tier menu). No credit card required to start. After the trial, the workspace drops to permanent Free (125 credits/month) unless you convert. The first 25 accounts at launch receive a 90-day variant of the same trial instead.

Per-workspace billing

Each workspace is its own billing entity. One account can own multiple workspaces, each with its own plan, credit pool, and members. Inviting teammates to a workspace does not change the bill; there is no per-seat fee. Heavy multi-context users (consultants serving multiple clients, founders running two unrelated companies) create extra workspaces, each billed independently.