Plans and usage
Every tier runs exactly the same software. A plan buys capacity, never features.
What a plan buys#
One number: how much work W1 can do for you. Nothing else changes.
Free and Frontier run the same build, with the same models, the same surfaces, the same plugins, skills and rewind. There is no Pro-only feature, and there is not going to be one.
| Plan | Price | For |
|---|---|---|
| Free | R0 | The whole product, on real work, inside a weekly working budget. |
| Pro | R150/month | Everyday building. Much more usage, and room to burst. |
| Studio | R350/month | Building every day — roughly 1.7× Pro's usage. |
| Frontier | From R950/month | Full-time work — 3× Studio's usage, and up. |
The pricing page carries the current detail, the billing terms and the refund promise. Payment is by card, billed monthly in rand.
Start free and find out.
Put W1 on real work for a week before you decide. Most people find the free budget is enough, and the honest recommendation is to stay there until it visibly is not.
How usage is counted#
Usage is measured in the work W1 does for you on the model — roughly, the context that travels with each request plus what comes back. Two practical consequences:
- A long thread costs more per turn than a short one. Context accumulates, and it travels with every request in that thread.
- Reusing context is cheap; rediscovering it is not. A follow-up in a warm thread is a fraction of the cost of asking the same question in a fresh one, because the reading is already done.
W1 is engineered around this — it reuses stable context rather than rebuilding it every turn — but the largest lever is still how you work.
Getting more out of your budget#
- Keep threads on one subject
Finish a job in its thread, then start a new one for the next job. A thread that has drifted through four unrelated tasks carries all four with it, on every turn.
- Give it a starting point
"The bug is in
checkout.ts, it started after the tax change" costs one read. "Something is broken in the payments flow" costs a search of the whole project. - Let it delegate the wide searches
When the answer needs twenty files read, the read-only scout reads them in its own context and hands back a short digest. Ask for a broad investigation and W1 will use it — that is far cheaper than crawling the files in your thread.
- Say what "done" means
A check W1 can run is worth ten turns of you deciding whether the work is finished.
Hitting the ceiling#
W1 shows you where you are against the month's budget as you go, and warns you before it becomes a problem.
If usage cannot be measured because something on W1's side is broken, you keep working. That is a deliberate decision: you should not be locked out over a fault that is not yours.
A failed card payment is not a refusal to pay either — a failed charge keeps working through a grace window while the card is retried.
Changing or cancelling#
A plan change adjusts the subscription you already have rather than starting a second one, so you are never billed twice in a month. Cancelling stops the next charge and keeps your plan until the end of the month you paid for. No forms, no retention call.
If a price ever changes, active subscribers get 30 days' notice by email first.