Pay for what runs.
Everyone gets everything: the desktop and iPhone apps, unlimited canvases, teams. Your own Claude plan runs the model; Ponzu charges only while a canvas's sandbox is awake.
Ponzu is free while billing is being set up. These are the prices when it starts, and we'll tell you before it does.
100free creditsa month, per person, pooled in a team
$0.10a credit
5creditsan awake hour ($0.50)
How it works
- A canvas is awake while Ponzu works on it, and sleeps 5 minutes after the last activity. Asleep costs nothing.
- Opening a canvas to look never wakes it.
- Each workspace has a monthly cap, $100 to start, and is never charged past it. At the cap, no new turn starts in the workspace until an admin raises the cap or the month resets. A turn that's running finishes.
- Claude runs on your plan: a Claude Pro or Max subscription, or an Anthropic API key. Ponzu adds nothing for tokens.
What a month costs
| Example | Awake time | Credits | You pay |
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| Trying it | 12 h | 60 | $0 |
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| Light | 30 h | 150 | $5 |
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| Typical | 60 h | 300 | $20 |
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| Heavy | 200 h | 1,000 | $90 |
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| A team of five | 400 h | 2,000 | $150 |
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The team row assumes 5 people, so 500 credits are free. It also needs a cap above the $100 a workspace starts with, which an admin sets in Settings.
Teams
A team is a GitHub organization with Ponzu installed: one card, one cap and pooled free credits. A canvas bills to the workspace that owns its repo, so canvases on your personal repos bill to you. Admins see usage by person.
Enterprise
Need SSO, your own region or an invoice? Write to us.
Questions
- What counts as awake?
- From the moment a canvas wakes until it goes back to sleep, measured to the second. A partial credit is never charged.
- Do credits roll over?
- No. The free credits reset each month, on the day of the month the workspace was made.
- Is the iPhone app extra?
- No. Billing lives in the desktop app.
- What happens at the cap?
- No new turn starts in the workspace until an admin raises the cap or the month resets. A turn that's running finishes.
- Who counts for free credits?
- Everyone who has signed in to Ponzu and was in the workspace that month.