Plans and billing: what each plan includes and how payment works
The three plans and their real allowances, what counts toward the meter, how checkout and cancellation work, and what happens when you hit the cap.
Updated June 11, 2026
The three plans
Every plan is a flat monthly price with a clear character allowance for the premium engines. No credits, no per-character pricing, no surprise line items. The numbers below are read from the same plan registry the app enforces, so they cannot drift from what the meter actually does.
* House math: about 1,000 characters is a minute of audio. About, not exactly.
* Creator includes 1 owned cloned voice; Studio includes 5.
Every plan can use every engine
There is no engine locked behind a higher tier. All five voice engines, and every voice within them, are available on every plan, including Free. Cloned voices are the same: any plan can speak with a clone, the only plan difference is how many clones you may own at once.
Plans differ on volume, not access. A higher plan does not unlock better models; it gives you more premium-engine characters per month before the meter pauses you. We price this way on purpose: the whole idea is every great engine in one studio at one fair price, not a paywall in front of the good voices. What you pick changes which meter a generation draws from (premium allowance, or none at all for Kokoro), never whether you are allowed to pick it.
If you ever see an engine you cannot select, that is a bug, not a plan limit. Tell us and we will fix it.
Kokoro is unlimited on every plan
The open-weight Kokoro engine never touches your meter, on any plan, including Free. That is not a trial perk; it is enforced in the generation route itself: Kokoro requests skip the budget check entirely.
The practical workflow this enables: draft and iterate on Kokoro for free, as much as you like, then switch to a premium engine for the take you ship. Engine choice never changes your bill; it only changes which meter, if any, a generation draws from.
What counts toward the allowance
The allowance is measured in characters because that is what a voice engine consumes. What draws from it:
- Text to Speech on a premium engine: the script's character count, including generations with your cloned voices.
- Speech to Text: the character count of the transcript that comes back.
- Dubbing: the character count of the translated script.
- Sound & Music: the character count of your prompt (a few hundred characters at most).
Regenerating costs the same characters as the first take, never more. Within your allowance, iteration is free in the way that matters.
Upgrading: checkout runs on Stripe
Payments are handled by Stripe. Pressing Upgrade on the billing page sends you to a Stripe Checkout page; your card details go to Stripe, not to us. After payment, Stripe confirms the subscription and your plan updates in the app within a few seconds of confirmation.
If a checkout is cancelled midway, nothing is charged and nothing changes; the billing page says exactly that when you land back on it.
Billing periods: monthly, 6-month, and yearly
Both paid plans can be billed monthly, every 6 months, or yearly. The number to compare is always the per-month price; the billed total is printed right beside it, because on a longer term the per-month figure is an average, not the charge your card sees. The longer terms carry a discount: 6-month billing is 10% off, and yearly works out to 2 months free.
Cancelling works the same on every period: cancel any time from the billing portal and the renewal stops, with the plan running to the end of the period already paid for. There are no partial refunds mid-term on the 6-month and yearly terms; the discount is the trade for the commitment. The terms say the same thing in the same words.
* 6-month billing is 10% off; yearly is 2 months free next to paying monthly. The allowance is identical on every period: the term changes the bill, never the meter.
Managing and cancelling
Subscribers get a Manage billing button on the billing page that opens the Stripe billing portal. Invoices, payment method changes, and cancellation all live there; cancelling returns you to the Free plan, and downgrading is the same motion.
There is no retention maze and no email-us-to-cancel. The portal is self-serve.
At the cap, and the reset day
When a premium generation would push past your month's allowance, it does not run, and the studio says so plainly with an upgrade panel instead of an error line. Everything else keeps working: your library, your history, your downloads, and unlimited Kokoro drafting. Finished audio is never held hostage to a meter.
The meter resets on the 1st of each month (UTC). No rollover, no expiry drama: a fresh month is a fresh allowance. The usage page shows the live meter and a per-engine breakdown, and Usage and limits covers the per-upload and per-script caps that exist alongside the plan allowance.