> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.shipstar.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Plans & Credits

> What each plan includes and how generation credits work

## Plans

|                              | Free  | Solo              | Team                             |
| ---------------------------- | ----- | ----------------- | -------------------------------- |
| **Price**                    | \$0   | $25/mo or $240/yr | $29/user/mo or $290/user/yr      |
| **Projects**                 | 1     | Up to 3           | Unlimited                        |
| **Credits per month**        | 1,000 | 50,000            | 50,000 per seat, pooled          |
| **Seats**                    | 1     | 1                 | 2 minimum, add or remove anytime |
| **Team invitations**         | —     | —                 | ✓                                |
| **Team-wide content review** | —     | —                 | ✓                                |
| **Free trial**               | —     | 14 days           | 14 days                          |

Solo and Team trials require a payment method but charge nothing until the trial
ends. The Free plan needs no card and doesn't expire. Free-plan changelogs include
a small "Powered by Shipstar" badge.

<Card title="See pricing" icon="tag" href="https://shipstar.ai/pricing">
  Full pricing details and checkout
</Card>

## How credits work

Credits are consumed by **content generation only**. API requests — reading
content, managing mailing lists, publishing, everything else — are free and
unmetered (rate limits still apply).

Each generation charges a fixed cost based on the content type, at the moment
the generation is queued:

| Content type          | Credits |
| --------------------- | ------- |
| Blog Post             | 100     |
| Feature Page          | 100     |
| KB Articles           | 100     |
| Intercom Articles     | 100     |
| Public Changelog      | 100     |
| Release Notes Email   | 100     |
| Weekly Product Update | 50      |
| Content Ideas         | 50      |
| Daily Product Update  | 25      |
| LinkedIn Post         | 25      |
| Twitter Thread        | 25      |

On the Free plan's 1,000 credits, that's roughly 10 long-form pieces or 40
social posts a month.

### Billing periods and resets

Credits reset monthly on your billing anchor day — the day of the month you
signed up (capped at the 28th). Unused credits don't roll over.

### Where usage is metered

Credits belong to the **team that owns the project**, not to individual users:

* On Free and Solo, that's your own team's allowance.
* On Team, all members draw from one pooled allowance (50,000 × seats). Any
  member can use any share of the pool.

### When credits run out

* **API and dashboard generation** requests return `402 Payment Required` —
  see [error handling](/guides/error-handling) for the response shape.
* **Scheduled generation** (calendar events) skips occurrences while the team
  is out of credits and resumes automatically after the next reset.
* Everything else keeps working: published content stays live, and you can
  still review, edit, approve, and publish existing drafts.

### Checking your usage

The dashboard sidebar shows a live credit meter, and **Account → Plan** shows
credits used, remaining, and the next reset date. Programmatically:

```bash theme={null}
curl https://api.shipstar.ai/api/internal/subscription/usage \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_JWT"
```

## The Team plan

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Inviting team members">
    Any team member can invite others by email from the **Team** page — the
    invitee doesn't need an existing account and can use any email address
    (personal domains included). Invitations expire after 7 days and can be
    resent. Pending invitations count against your seats until accepted or
    revoked.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Seats and proration">
    The Team plan has a 2-seat minimum. The team owner can add or remove seats
    at any time from the Team page; billing is prorated automatically through
    Stripe. You can't reduce seats below current members plus pending
    invitations.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Owner vs. member permissions">
    Every member can generate content, review and approve drafts, and invite
    others. Only the team owner can revoke invitations, remove members, manage
    seats, and change billing.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Content review across the team">
    When content is ready for review, every team member is notified by email
    (each person can opt out in their notification preferences), and any member
    can approve or edit it before it publishes.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What happens if the Team subscription ends">
    Members keep their team membership but fall back to their own plan's
    allowance, and invitations are paused. Re-subscribing restores everything —
    no one is removed from the team.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>