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Chat Plans
Monthly subscription plans for the LLM Gateway chat playground
Chat Plans are optional monthly subscriptions for the chat playground. Instead of paying per request from your pay-as-you-go balance, a Chat Plan gives you a pool of monthly credits worth more than you pay — so heavy chat usage costs less.
Plans
There are three tiers, billed monthly:
| Plan | Price | Monthly value | Models |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $9/mo | ~2× the value | Most chat models — Claude Haiku & Sonnet, GPT-5-mini, Gemini Flash, and more |
| Plus | $19/mo | ~2.5× the value | Everything in Starter plus frontier models |
| Pro | $49/mo | ~3× the value | All models, highest monthly allowance |
The credit multiplier is tapered: the larger the plan, the more usage value each dollar buys at provider rates.
Frontier models — flagship models such as Claude Opus, GPT-5, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and Grok 4 are included on Plus and Pro. The Starter plan covers the broad catalog of everyday chat models but does not include these frontier models.
How credits work
- Monthly reset — Your plan credits refresh at the start of each billing cycle. Unused credits do not roll over to the next month.
- Plan credits drain first — Requests made from the chat app draw down your plan's monthly credits before anything else.
- Pay-as-you-go fallback — Once your monthly credits are used up, the chat app falls back to your regular pay-as-you-go balance, which never expires. You can keep chatting without interruption.
Managing your plan
- Open the Pricing page from the chat playground sidebar to compare tiers and subscribe.
- Your active plan appears in the playground sidebar with a badge, alongside how many credits remain for the cycle.
- You can upgrade, downgrade, or cancel at any time. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you've already paid for — you keep access until then.
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