Credits and plans
Each workspace has one plan, with usage that resets every week. See who pays for what, and how to set limits.
What the plan covers
A plan sets how much AI work its workspace can do each week, and everyone who can edit there draws on that weekly usage: Benchy's replies, and the images, videos and 3D models Benchy makes. The plan belongs to the workspace, not to whoever pays for it.
Weekly usage resets every seven days and doesn't carry over. You see it as a share of the week and its reset time, with a nudge past 80%. Credits, which the owner buys, are spent only after the week's usage runs out, and never expire.
Plans
| Plan | Per month | Weekly usage | Storage | Editors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Enough to try Benchy | 10 GiB | You |
| Benchy Pro | $20 | The standard amount | 100 GiB | 2 |
| Pro Plus | $100 | 5× Pro | 250 GiB | 2 |
| Benchy Max | $200 | 20× Pro | 500 GiB | 2 |
| Benchy Scale | $500 | 34.8× Pro | 1 TiB | 5 |
Prices are in US dollars; a year costs ten months' price. Pro Plus, Benchy Max and Benchy Scale are the three stops of one price pill on the pricing page, and in Billing. Paid plans renew at the price shown until you cancel; a subscription that started on earlier terms keeps them. Taxes may apply. Website limits per plan are in Websites: plans and limits.
A new account also gets 100 Credits. Only your home workspace comes with Free usage: another Free workspace runs on Credits until you put it on a plan, and the Free workspaces you own share one storage allowance. On a smaller plan your files stay, and new uploads pause while you are over its storage.
The owner changes the plan on the Billing page and buys Credits on the Credits tab of Settings, both in the account menu. Each workspace is billed on its own, and Credits stay in their workspace, except that deleting a workspace moves them to another you own.
Editors
Editors are the only people a plan counts. The table shows how many editors each plan includes, you among them. On a paid plan each extra editor is $15 USD a month; a Free workspace has to move to a paid plan before anyone else can edit in it.
- A person counts once, however many projects they edit.
- A member who can edit counts, and so does a guest who can edit a project, canvas or doc.
- Members who can view, and guests in a chat, are free.
Credits
Credits keep the agent and image, video and 3D generation going after the week's usage is used up. Three packs, no plan needed: 500 Credits for $10, 2,000 for $40 and 5,000 for $100 (USD). Before a generation runs, Benchy shows its cost, and nothing starts until you approve.
Classrooms
A Verified Classroom is free: pupils join with a class code and a nickname, with no pupil accounts or seat fees. It has Free's weekly usage and 50 GiB of storage. Classroom Plus is $40 USD a month or $400 a year, with 2.2× Benchy Pro's weekly usage and 100 GiB. Both hold 40 pupils and 2 staff. A person at Benchy reviews every classroom before its code works. See Benchy for education.
Who pays for what
- A chat is paid by its workspace, for every answer, whoever asks; the charge names who asked. A new chat starts in the workspace you have open when you can edit there, otherwise in your home workspace. Members who can view and guests ask up to 30 times an hour and never see the balance; see Chats.
- Generations are paid by the workspace of the canvas or chat they come from, when you can edit there.
- Your own agents, such as Claude Code or Codex, spend the workspace's usage only on Benchy's paid tools there, through a key or app that can edit there. One connected as a guest pays from your home workspace.
Limits
Three limits are checked before work starts:
- A person's limit. The owner can set a monthly Credit limit for any member or guest. Asking Benchy in someone else's chat is rate-limited too; see Chats.
- A connection's limit. Every API key and connected app has its own monthly limit. See Connect your agent.
- The workspace's balance. When the week's usage and Credits run out, paid features pause until the usage resets or the owner buys more.
See where Credits went
The Credits tab of Settings shows the open workspace's last 30 days. The owner sees everyone, by person or by source — Studio, an API key or a connected app — and can download a CSV. Everyone else sees their own.
What Credits don't pay for
- Your own agent's model: Claude Code uses your Claude plan, and Codex your ChatGPT plan.
- Work Benchy Desktop does on your Mac, such as slicing.
- World purchases, a separate payment on which World charges no commission. Benchy never buys or refunds on World for you. See Selling on World.
- Storage, which comes with the plan.