Plans & pricing

The Team edition is paid. Public is free. This page covers the paid plans — what you get, what it costs, how seats work.

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Plans

Numbers above are current as of this writing — always confirm on the pricing page before purchase.

How the trial works

When you create a team (owner flow), Ideafy automatically starts a 14-day trial — no credit card, no checkout. The team is fully functional during the trial, capped at 5 members.

When the trial expires:

1. The subscription moves into a 5-day grace period. Pool writes are blocked, but reads still work, and the team banner shows "Your trial has expired — upgrade to continue"
2. After grace, the subscription is expired. The team's pool writes stay blocked until someone with billing permission checks out on Stripe

Local work continues regardless — only the team/pool features are gated. You never lose your cards.

How seats work

A seat is one team member. If your team has 4 people, you need at least 4 seats. The number of seats is set at Stripe checkout and enforced at join time:

• Seats ≥ current member count (checkout prevents going below the current count)
• Join attempts past the seat count fail with a clear "team is full" error
• Removing a member frees a seat for the next join, without touching billing

You can resize seats at any time from the Stripe customer portal (Settings → Billing → Manage subscription). Stripe prorates the change. Downsize carefully: if you drop seats below the current member count, the UI won't let you — remove members first.

What the paid plans unlock

Both Monthly and Annual unlock the same feature set. Nothing is additionally gated behind Annual — the discount is the only difference.

• Pool (push / pull / claim / unclaim / reassign)
• My Queue
• Notifications (in-app bell + Resend for invites)
• Team invites with seat enforcement
• Remote device / job listener (opt-in on Team)
• Stripe-backed billing with a customer portal for self-service changes

What's not gated:

• Local board, kanban columns, card modal — these work even with an expired subscription
• MCP server, skills, hooks — local agent integration is never blocked
• Git worktrees, dev servers — local orchestration is never blocked
• Conversation history — always local

Switching plans

Upgrade (trial → paid): Settings → Billing → Upgrade. You land on Stripe checkout, pick a plan and seat count, and the subscription becomes active on successful payment. Your trial converts seamlessly.

Monthly ↔ Annual: Customer portal → Manage subscription → change plan. Stripe prorates.

Cancel: Customer portal → cancel subscription. The subscription moves into canceled state. You keep full access until the end of the current billing period, then enter a grace period for another 5 days, then the subscription expires.

What happens when a card expires (payment fails)

Stripe retries the card per its standard dunning flow. Ideafy receives invoice.payment_failed webhooks and moves the subscription into past_due. Pool writes are blocked. The team banner tells you to update the payment method.

Once a new payment succeeds, invoice.payment_succeeded fires and the subscription moves back to active. Pool writes unblock within seconds.

Where to go from here

• Stripe checkout & portal — the step-by-step of buying and managing
• Subscription states — the full state machine and what each state blocks

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