Pricing

Free, and it stays free.

Free is the product, not a sample of it: every feature, about 210 guided replies and 30 minutes of voice every month, for as long as you keep the account. No card, and no date on which it stops.

Every feature is on every plan, including this one. What a paid plan buys is a larger monthly AI allowance — compute, not permission.

Paid plans are not open on this deployment. No payment processor is connected, so nothing here can be bought today and no card can be entered anywhere on the site. Free is the whole product in the meantime, and the plans below are published so you can see where this is going rather than so you can buy one.

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Try OnBetterTerms before you subscribe.

Your first 7 days include 25 guided responses, shared with whoever you invite rather than counted per person, so there is room to work through something properly at the start.

Your first week

$0 for 7 days

Experience the core OnBetterTerms workflow.

  • Private guidance
  • One shared space
  • Invite one other person
  • Independent Perspectives
  • Structured conversation workflow
  • Privacy controls
  • Check-ins and debrief
  • 25 guided responses, shared with whoever you invite
  • 5 minutes voice transcription
  • No credit card required
When the week ends

The trial runs for 7 days or 25 guided responses, whichever comes first. Then the account becomes Free on its own: the same features, plus about 210 replies and 30 minutes of voice every month from then on. Nothing that was advertised is taken away, no card is asked for, there is no gap in between, and nothing you wrote is deleted.

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No card is asked for at any point, and nothing is ever charged automatically.

Paid plans are not open on this deployment. No payment processor is connected, so nothing here can be bought today and no card can be entered anywhere on the site. Free is the whole product in the meantime, and the plans below are published so you can see where this is going rather than so you can buy one.

FreeOne account

$0

a month, forever

The whole product. You pay only for AI beyond the credit included each month.

  • Guided AI replies a monthabout 210
  • Voice, transcribed30 minutes
  • Every product featureIncluded
How the allowance is counted
  • Included AI usage$2.00
  • A typical reply costs0.97¢

Real money, not points: each model request costs what the provider charges us plus our margin, and comes off that balance.

When a month's included AI is used up, the parts that call a model pause until the allowance refills on the 1st of the month. Everything else keeps working — writing, check-ins, your history, your spaces, sharing, export, deletion, and every safety feature. Nothing is ever charged on top, and nothing accrues to be charged later.

PlusOne account

$12.99

a month

The same product, with enough monthly AI for somebody using it most days.

  • Guided AI replies a monthabout 2050
  • Voice, transcribed2 hours
  • Every product featureIncluded
How the allowance is counted
  • Included AI usage$20.00
  • A typical reply costs0.97¢

Real money, not points: each model request costs what the provider charges us plus our margin, and comes off that balance.

When a month's included AI is used up, the parts that call a model pause until the allowance refills on the 1st of the month. Everything else keeps working — writing, check-ins, your history, your spaces, sharing, export, deletion, and every safety feature. Nothing is ever charged on top, and nothing accrues to be charged later.

Coming soon

Not open for sign-up yet — the free plan is the whole product in the meantime.

Stored as an address and a plan name. Used once, to tell you it has opened. Not added to a mailing list.

TogetherCovers 2 people

$19.99

a month

One subscription for two people in a shared space, instead of two subscriptions.

  • Guided AI replies a monthabout 2050 each
  • Voice, transcribed2 hours each
  • Between everyone it coversabout 4100 replies, 4 hours
  • Every product featureIncluded
How the allowance is counted
  • Included AI usage$20.00 each
  • Combined across the plan$40.00
  • A typical reply costs0.97¢

Real money, not points: each model request costs what the provider charges us plus our margin, and comes off that balance.

When a month's included AI is used up, the parts that call a model pause until the allowance refills on the 1st of the month. Everything else keeps working — writing, check-ins, your history, your spaces, sharing, export, deletion, and every safety feature. Nothing is ever charged on top, and nothing accrues to be charged later.

Coming soon

Not open for sign-up yet — the free plan is the whole product in the meantime.

Stored as an address and a plan name. Used once, to tell you it has opened. Not added to a mailing list.

How often will I use this?

This sizes the AI allowance, and that is all it does. Every product feature is on every plan, so nothing here is a question about what you can use.

Pick one and this says which allowance fits. Nothing is sent anywhere: the figures came down with the page, already worked out against the same catalog the server bills from, and pressing one of these changes nothing but this panel.

Reply counts are approximate, and always will be. What a model request costs depends on how much context goes into it and how long the answer comes back — a short question is cheaper than the estimate, a long joint session with a lot of history is dearer. The figures above are built from a typical exchange and then rounded off to the nearest five or ten, because a figure like “about 44” claims a precision this arithmetic does not have.

What actually differs

How much AI, and how many people it covers. That is the entire difference between these plans.

Plan comparison. Every product feature is included on every plan; what differs is the monthly AI and voice allowance and how many people it covers.
 FreePlusTogether
Every product featureIncludedIncludedIncluded
Guided AI replies a monthabout 210about 2050about 2050 each
Voice, transcribed30 minutes2 hours2 hours each
Who it coversOne accountOne account2 people in one space
Replies between everyone it coversabout 210about 2050about 4100
Included AI usage, as money$2.00$20.00$20.00 each
Combined, as money$2.00$20.00$40.00
Price$0 / month$12.99 / month$19.99 / month

You’re paying for compute, not permission.

There is no row in that table where a plan says “no”. Nothing is withheld from the free account, because the two moments this product exists for — an argument happening right now, and somebody who cannot face typing it — are the two worst possible things to put behind a paywall.

Together is one subscription for 2 people in a shared space. The allowance is per person rather than a pot they share: about 2050 replies and 2 hours of voice each, about 4100 replies between them. Nobody is spending out of the other person's, and nobody can see how much the other person has left. Every other plan covers one account.

What a reply costs

A typical exchange with your guide — your recent context in, a focused reply out — costs about 0.97¢ of the included usage. A long joint session costs more; a short question costs less.

Nothing is ever charged automatically beyond the plan price. When a month's included AI is used up, the parts that call a model pause until the allowance refills on the 1st of the month. Everything else keeps working — writing, check-ins, your history, your spaces, sharing, export, deletion, and every safety feature. Nothing is ever charged on top, and nothing accrues to be charged later.

The allowance is per calendar month, so it refills on the 1st of the month for everybody at once rather than on the anniversary of the day you signed up. A free account has no renewal date, and it refills just the same.

The rest of the accounting

That figure is the model’s price plus our margin. We are not going to pretend inference is free, and we are not going to hide what it costs behind a word like “allowance” — which is why the included usage is published as a sum of money as well as a number of replies, on every card above.

Safety checks are never counted. Not against the free allowance, not against a paid one. You should never have a financial reason to avoid one.

Reply estimates move when the model does. If guidance is routed to a cheaper model, the number of replies your plan covers goes up and this page says so, because it is computed from the same rows the server bills against rather than written down somewhere.

Included on every plan

  • Your own private guide
  • Private journalling, by text or voice
  • Shared spaces, and inviting someone
  • Independent Perspectives
  • Joint sessions and de-escalation
  • All three privacy levels
  • Memory you can read, correct and switch off
  • Importing your history from another assistant
  • Check-ins and pattern insights
  • Debriefs and outcomes
  • Shared goals and agreements
  • Export and deletion, whenever you want
  • Every safety feature

Usage details

What happens when the trial ends?

The trial runs for 7 days or 25 guided responses, whichever comes first. Then the account becomes Free on its own: the same features, plus about 210 replies and 30 minutes of voice every month from then on. Nothing that was advertised is taken away, no card is asked for, there is no gap in between, and nothing you wrote is deleted.

Free is not a reduced version of what you tried. It is the same product with a monthly allowance instead of a one-off one, and more spaces and more voice than the trial had.

Can I buy a bigger allowance today?

Paid plans are not open on this deployment. No payment processor is connected, so nothing here can be bought today and no card can be entered anywhere on the site. Free is the whole product in the meantime, and the plans below are published so you can see where this is going rather than so you can buy one.

Are features different between plans?

No. Plans change the amount of included AI usage, not which product features you can reach. There is no capability on this site that a free account cannot use.

What does “included AI usage” mean?

A balance in real money, not points, and not a currency you bought. Each model request costs what the provider charges us for it plus our margin, and that amount comes off your monthly balance.

So Free’s $2.00 means that much model usage at the prices on this page, which works out at about 210 typical replies — and is why the estimates move when the model does.

Does unused AI usage roll over?

No. The balance is per calendar month and refills on the 1st of the month rather than on the day you signed up; whatever is left is not carried forward. Nothing is lost that you paid for separately — the included usage is part of the plan price rather than a purchase of its own.

Can I spend more than the plan price?

No. There is no overage, no top-up and no way for a month to cost more than the plan does: when the balance reaches zero, model-backed features pause until it resets rather than continuing and billing you. A surprise invoice for a month of hard conversations is not a thing this product will ever send you.

Can included usage be moved between people?

No. On a plan, each person’s balance is their own and is spent by their own use — there is no transfer, no gifting, and no way to see how much of theirs somebody else has left. On a shared plan that is the whole point: two allowances rather than one pool, so nobody is rationing against the other person and nobody can tell how much the other person has been using it. The free trial is the one exception and is deliberately the other way round — one pool of guided responses between the two of you, because what it is demonstrating is the shared workflow.

What happens if I cancel?

Cancelling stops the next renewal. Access continues to the end of the period you have already paid for, and then the account returns to the free plan — it is not closed and nothing you wrote is deleted. On a shared plan the same is true for both people: the plan covers them until the period ends, and both keep their accounts afterwards.

Why does AI usage cost money?

Because every reply is a request to a model provider that bills us for it, by the amount of text going in and coming back, and every voice note is a transcription that bills us by the second. Those are real invoices that scale with how much you use the product. A product that pretends otherwise either collapses or starts making its money somewhere you would like less.

Why is the reply count approximate?

Because a conversation is not a fixed size. What is metered is the text that actually goes to the model and comes back — your recent context, the message, the reply. The estimate is built from a typical exchange and rounded off to the nearest five or ten, so treat it as the order of magnitude rather than as a floor.

What happens when my allowance runs out?

When a month's included AI is used up, the parts that call a model pause until the allowance refills on the 1st of the month. Everything else keeps working — writing, check-ins, your history, your spaces, sharing, export, deletion, and every safety feature. Nothing is ever charged on top, and nothing accrues to be charged later.

The app says so with the date rather than failing, and the billing screen shows how much is left before you get there.

Can I see my usage?

Yes — on the billing page in the app, as an amount and as roughly how many more replies it covers, with the date it resets. It updates as you use it, not once a month.

Does the shared plan pool the allowance?

Together is one subscription for 2 people in a shared space. The allowance is per person rather than a pot they share: about 2050 replies and 2 hours of voice each, about 4100 replies between them. Nobody is spending out of the other person's, and nobody can see how much the other person has left. Every other plan covers one account.

It buys seats rather than a shared balance. Pooling would mean one of you could spend the other’s allowance, and that each of you could see how much the other had used — which in a product two people share is the wrong trade in both directions.

What if there are more than two of us in a space?

Everyone can still be in it, and everyone keeps every feature — that does not change. What a shared plan buys is a larger AI allowance for the number of people it says it covers, oldest members of the space first; anybody beyond that stays on the free allowance until they choose a plan of their own. We will not sell you a shared plan for a space it is too small for, and the app says so rather than taking the money.

Do I have to pay to invite someone?

No. Inviting someone, sharing a space, Independent Perspectives, joint sessions, de-escalation and shared goals all work on the free plan for both people. The paid plan buys a larger allowance, never access to the other person.

Questions about any of this: the FAQ, or support@onbetterterms.com.