Billing and credits
Bowrain bills a workspace on one of four plans. A plan sets three things: the features the workspace can use, its numeric limits (projects and seats), and its monthly allowance of AI credits. Billing is managed by the workspace owner from Workspace Settings > Billing.
Plans
| Free | Pro | Team | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $25 / month | $20 / seat / month | Custom |
| Monthly AI credits | — (one-time 200K trial credits) | 2M | 8M | Custom (unlimited) |
| Projects | 1 | 10 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Seats | 1 | 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Git connectors | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom connectors | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| API access | — | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SSO / SAML | — | — | — | Yes |
| Bring your own AI key | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Free is free forever. Pro and Team are self-serve — a workspace owner subscribes to them from the app. Enterprise is arranged directly and adds SSO/SAML, dedicated support, custom agreements, and SLA terms.
Every plan can bring its own AI provider key, including Free.
AI credits
AI work in Bowrain is metered in credits. One credit equals one AI token, counting both the tokens sent to the model and the tokens it returns.
Paid plans come with a monthly credit allowance. The balance resets on the 1st of each month at 00:00 UTC to the plan's full allowance — 2M on Pro, 8M on Team. Enterprise credits are unlimited. Unused monthly credits do not roll over; they reset each month, which keeps costs predictable.
The Free plan has no recurring allowance. Instead, every new workspace receives a one-time grant of 200K trial credits when it is created. Trial credits never expire, but they also never renew — once they are spent, a free workspace restores AI access by upgrading to a paid plan, buying a top-up pack, or bringing its own AI key.
What consumes credits
Credits are spent by the AI operations Bowrain runs on your behalf:
- AI translation — translating content, whether run as a batch flow or requested inline in the translation editor.
- Brand scans — analyzing content to build or update a brand-voice profile.
Editing, reviewing, running non-AI checks, and reading content memory or terminology do not consume credits. Only the operations that call an AI model draw down the balance.
Bring your own AI key
On any plan, you can configure Bowrain to run against your own AI provider key. Work that runs on your own key uses no Bowrain credits at all — you pay your provider directly, and the workspace's credit balance is left untouched.
Top-up packs
If a workspace needs more credits, the owner can buy a credit pack: 200K credits for $5. Packs are one-time purchases, never charged automatically on your behalf. They do not expire, and they are drawn from last — after the monthly plan allowance and any remaining trial credits — so a pack you buy now stays available across monthly resets until it is spent.
When credits run out
When the spendable balance (monthly allowance, plus remaining trial credits, plus any purchased packs) reaches zero, AI operations pause. A paused request is rejected rather than run, and the workspace owner is emailed. Everything that does not call an AI model — editing, review, and browsing content — keeps working normally.
On a paid plan, AI access returns at the next monthly reset; at any time the owner can also buy a credit pack or upgrade the plan. Enterprise workspaces have unlimited credits and are never paused.
The owner of a paid workspace also receives an email warning when the monthly allowance reaches 80% usage, before it is exhausted.
Per-seat pricing on Team
The Team plan is priced per seat per month: the subscription quantity is the number of seats, so you pay only for the seats you use. Monthly credits are shared across all workspace members rather than allocated per seat.
At checkout the seat count defaults to the workspace's current member count and cannot be set below it. Self-serve checkout covers up to 50 seats; larger teams are handled as an Enterprise conversation.
Trials
Every new workspace starts on a 14-day Pro trial. No card is required to start it. During the trial the workspace has Pro limits and features, and its AI work draws on the one-time 200K trial credits every workspace receives at creation. The Pro monthly allowance starts with a paid subscription.
The trial is card-free and has no Stripe subscription behind it, so nothing charges you when it ends — the workspace simply moves to the Free plan, which is free forever, keeps whatever trial credits remain, and retains full access to the translation editor. To stay on Pro (or move to Team), subscribe before or after the trial ends.
Managing your subscription
Subscription management is owner-only and runs through Stripe.
- Subscribe — from Workspace Settings > Billing, the owner starts checkout for Pro or Team. Checkout opens a hosted Stripe page; on completion the workspace moves to the new plan.
- Change plan — upgrades take effect immediately; downgrades apply at the end of the current billing period.
- Billing portal — the owner can open the Stripe customer portal to update the payment method, change the plan, view invoices, or cancel. Past invoices are also listed in the billing settings.
- Buy credits — the owner can purchase a top-up pack at any time from the same billing settings.
If a payment fails
When a recurring payment fails, the subscription is marked past due and the owner is emailed to update the payment method. Update it from the billing portal to keep the workspace on its plan. If the subscription is ultimately canceled — by you, or by Stripe after repeated failed attempts — the workspace is downgraded to Free.
Next steps
- Workspaces — the unit a plan and its credits apply to.
- Members and roles — invite teammates and manage seats.
- Brand voice — brand scans and the corrections that feed them.