Free AI CAD, and where it stops.

Four different arrangements get sold as free, and the difference decides whether you can use the output commercially.

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Four things called free.

Free forever with limits. A permanent plan with a usage ceiling. You can plan around it. Free credits. A monthly allowance that resets; useful, but the ceiling arrives mid-task. Free trial. Full capability for a fixed period, then nothing. Open source. Genuinely free software you host and maintain yourself, where your cost is time rather than money.

Only the first supports ongoing work.

What CADABRA’s free plan includes.

No card required. It is a permanent plan, not a trial.

Baseline monthly usage

Every paid plan is a multiple of this baseline.

Ask Mode

Questions about your open model: geometry, features, materials, mass properties.

Live web search

Material data, process information, and component pricing without leaving SOLIDWORKS.

Read-only model understanding

It can explain the model, not change it.

Where free stops, and what that costs.

Free is read-only. Agent Mode, which performs the actual edits, starts on Student at $20/month with a valid academic address, and Standard at $50/month for commercial use. Drawings Mode with your own standards is part of Enterprise.

What no free tier covers, anywhere.

Your title blocks, your drawing standards, and your naming conventions, because configuring them is per-customer work. Support with a response time. And, on some tools, isolation of your geometry: check whether a free tier trains on what you upload before you put a real part into one. Ours does by default, and one setting turns it off on any plan, at no charge.

Questions about the free plan.

Is there a free version?
Yes. The Free plan needs no card and carries 700K credits a month, Ask Mode against the open document, live web search, and Imagine Mode for rendered concepts. It does not change your model: building a concept, and every other edit, needs a paid plan.
Who qualifies for student pricing?
Students with an academic address their institution issued, in a supported region. The plan is $20/month, carries 3.5M credits a month plus Plan, Agent and Debug Mode, and is licensed for non-commercial coursework. It is not offered in the EU, EEA, United Kingdom, or Switzerland; students there should use the Free plan or Standard. Not recognized? Email team@cadabrai.com and we will check it.
How much does CADABRA cost?
CADABRA has a free plan with no card required. Standard is $50/month for 5M credits a month and commercial use by one engineer. Professional is $120/month for 10M credits a month, DFM review, cost estimates and the Ultra and Max reasoning levels. Enterprise is custom priced and is the only plan with Drawings Mode, custom standards, SSO, zero-retention handling and a dedicated engineer. Every paid plan can be billed yearly at 10 times the monthly price. Students pay $20/month on the education plan at cadabrai.com/education.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes. Paid plans renew until you cancel, and you can cancel from the dashboard at any time on both monthly and yearly billing. Checkout and billing run through Stripe.
Do you train on my CAD files?
By default on Free, Student, Standard and Professional, yes: the EULA and privacy policy state that CAD geometry, prompts, and metadata may be used to operate, maintain, and improve CADABRA and its AI models. You can stop it at any time with the data setting in your dashboard, which takes effect from the moment you turn it on rather than retroactively. On Enterprise, zero-retention handling is configured as part of the agreement.
Do I need my own SOLIDWORKS license?
Yes. CADABRA is an add-in, not a CAD system. You keep your existing SOLIDWORKS license, files, libraries, and PDM, and CADABRA works inside them.

Start on the free plan.

No card. Install the add-in and ask your model a question.

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