There are two costs associated with running MindStudio apps:

Subscription Pricing

Access to the MindStudio platform is billed on a monthly or yearly plan. MindStudio offers 3 subscription plans to choose from (Starter, Individual, and Teams). Check out our full pricing breakdown here.

Usage Pricing

In addition to your subscription cost, you will be billed monthly for usage. Each AI will have varying costs depending on usage. Factors like LLM token cost, data source vectorization & storage, function calls, and API calls will affect this cost.

Yes, we offer a Starter tier at $0/month that provides a $5 usage credit, allowing you to explore and try out our starter AI models and services without any initial cost.

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Yes, you can change your workspace pricing plan at any time directly from your workspace settings. If you upgrade your plan, changes will take effect immediately, and you’ll be charged the prorated difference. If you downgrade, changes will be effective from the next billing cycle.

Usage credits are prepaid amounts that are consumed based on your use of MindStudio’s services and features. They are deducted based on the specific tasks performed, like data vectorization, API calls, or using advanced AI features. Each service deducts a different amount of credits.

If you run out of credits, any AIs that rely on usage metering will be temporarily suspended until additional credits are purchased or your monthly credits are replenished. You will receive an email notification if you’re approaching your limit.

For the Starter and Individual plans, usage credits will be prepaid. For workspaces on the Teams plan, there will be a $100 usage limit and your bill will be received at the end of each billing cycle, detailing the usage and charges for that period. The bill will be sent to the billing email associated with your MindStudio workspace. You can also access your billing history and download invoices from your account dashboard.

Each interaction with our AI model involves two main parts that determine the cost: the “prompt” and the “response.” Prompt tokens include everything you send to the AI: your main question or command, any additional instructions, and all the data the AI uses to generate a response, like examples or results of database queries. Response tokens are what the AI sends back to you, whether it’s a direct reply to your question or data it’s saving for later use. A token represents roughly three-quarters of a word. So, for about every 1000 tokens, you’re dealing with 750 words. Example Calculation: Imagine you send the AI a request that includes a basic prompt (500 tokens), a reference article (2000 tokens), and a content outline (500 tokens). Then, the AI produces an article that’s 1000 words long. Input cost: You’ll add up the tokens for the prompt, the article, and the outline. That’s 500 + 2000 + 500, totaling 3000 tokens. Output cost: The article is 1000 words, roughly equivalent to 1250 tokens. Assuming you’re using GPT-3.5, our default model, this interaction will cost: Input cost ≈ $0.0039 Output cost ≈ $0.0033 Total cost ≈ $0.0072

In the debugger, each “Generate Text” block displays the number of tokens in input and output. You can test out the various inputs and outputs of different LLMs by using the Profiler in the MindStudio editor.