Plans, usage, and limits
The unit is a credit. Every plan is a monthly credit allowance, and nothing carries over.
The plans
| Plan | Price | Credits a month | Conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 700K | None |
| Student | $20 a month | 3.5M | Requires an academic email in a supported region. |
| Standard | $50 a month | 5M | None |
| Professional | $120 a month | 10M | None |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Requires a company email. |
What a credit is
A credit is the unit CADABRA meters work in. It is not a prompt, not a message and not a request: it is drawn down per completion, so the cost of a turn tracks how much work the turn actually took.
- A question in Ask Mode costs a fraction of an edit.
- An edit in Agent Mode costs more, and more again when it takes several attempts.
- A drawing set from Drawings Mode costs the most of anything in the product.
- A higher model level costs more per turn than a lower one on the same prompt.
Unused credits do not roll over.
Free is 700K a month, and every paid plan is a multiple of it: Student 5 times, Standard 7.1 times and Professional 14.3 times. Enterprise is set per organization.
Which levels your plan reaches
A reasoning level is how much thinking a turn gets before CADABRA acts. Higher levels hold more of the model in view and take longer, and they cost more credits. You pick a level, never a model, and the picker is a pill in the composer in the task pane.
| Plan | Levels | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Low | Low |
| Student | Low, Medium and High | Medium |
| Standard | Low, Medium and High | Medium |
| Professional | Low, Medium, High, Ultra and Max | Medium |
| Enterprise | Low, Medium, High, Ultra and Max | Ultra |
How the level behaves
- On Free the picker is hidden, because Low is the only level there.
- There is no automatic routing between levels. A turn runs at the level on the pill.
- If your plan drops below the level you had saved, the plan default is used and nothing warns you.
- There is no model picker anywhere in CADABRA. You choose a level, never a model. The Credits by model breakdown on the dashboard Overview page is a report of what ran, not a control.
Modes are the other axis, and they are gated separately: all modes has the entitlement table.
Where the number is
The dashboard Overview page is the meter. A ring shows the percentage of the allowance used, over three figures: Credits used, Requests and Resets in.
The range control above it switches between Billing period, 1d, 7d, 30d, This month and Last month, and every figure follows it. The ring alone stays on the billing period, which is the window the allowance is measured over. Under it, Allowance used per day is a per-day chart with an Export CSV button, and Credits by model breaks the same range down.
The quota is checked before a turn starts and again before each model call inside it, so a long Agent run can stop part-way through with the same message it would have refused with at the start. Reaching the limit covers what that leaves in the model.
When it resets
The allowance resets with your billing period, not on the first of the month. Resets in counts down to it, and shows the date underneath.
On a paid plan two emails are sent per period, at most once each: "You have used 80% of your CADABRA usage" and "You have used your CADABRA usage". Both carry the date the allowance comes back.
Reaching the limit
Past the allowance the service answers 429 and the turn does not run. The panel reads "You've reached your credit limit on the {plan} plan. Manage your plan in the dashboard to keep going. Resets {date}." The version written into chat history is worded per plan and offers extra usage where you have it. Error messages carries both.
A run that stops part-way stops where it is. Every feature created before the stop is in the model and nothing is rolled back, apart from a step that failed on its own and was reverted at the time. There is no half-built feature left behind.
Extra usage is bought for the current period from the dashboard Billing page, on Student, Standard, Professional and Enterprise. It is a one-off charge that does not change your subscription and does not roll over: extra usage.
Once you have credits again, send continue in the same chat and Agent resumes from the current model state rather than starting over.
From Free the only path is a plan change, and it works immediately: there is no top-up on Free, and upgrading raises the allowance for the period you are already in. See changing a plan.
A subscription that is not active
A paid plan whose subscription has lapsed is treated as Free: the allowance drops to 700K and every mode except Ask locks until billing is current. The plan card says so, and the Billing page shows the reason.