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Billing

Purple Cat is free during alpha. There is no billing system, no payment details are collected, and nothing can charge you.

🟡 This page is a placeholder. It exists so the Help wiki has a home for billing when there is billing. Everything below "What is true today" is unwritten pending a decision on plans and pricing.

What is true today

  • The hosted service is free while it is in alpha.
  • No payment method is collected, and none can be entered.
  • If paid plans are introduced, pricing will be published and you will get notice before anything is charged. Nothing will start charging an existing account silently.

→ Terms of Service ‹link once published› §13

What costs you money today

One thing, and it is not billed by us: your own AI provider API key, if you choose to supply one. Requests made with your key are billed by that provider — OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, or xAI — to your account with them. Purple Cat takes no cut and cannot see your balance.

Watch it the same way you would any API key: it can spend money, and it lives in your browser until you remove it.

→ AI Features

Self-hosting

Running your own instance has no Purple Cat fee at all. You pay your own hosting costs, and the licence permits non-commercial self-hosting.

To be written

When plans exist, this page needs:

  • [ ] What the plans are and what each includes
  • [ ] Where the limits are (storage, campaigns, members, AI usage)
  • [ ] How to subscribe, change plan, and cancel
  • [ ] What happens to your data if you downgrade or cancel — the single question people most want answered before they pay
  • [ ] Invoices and receipts
  • [ ] Refund policy
  • [ ] Tax and VAT handling
  • [ ] Whether GMs pay for their table, or every member pays