Lounge Memberships
Monthly membership plans for Lounge, the LLM Gateway chat app
Lounge memberships (formerly Chat Plans) are optional monthly subscriptions for Lounge, the LLM Gateway chat app. Instead of paying per request from your pay-as-you-go balance, a membership 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 Lounge sidebar to compare tiers and subscribe.
- Your active membership appears in the Lounge sidebar with a badge, alongside how many credits remain for the cycle.
- Upgrading takes effect immediately: you're charged the new tier's full price, your billing cycle restarts, and your credits reset to the new tier's full monthly allowance. Unspent credits from the old cycle don't carry over.
- Downgrading also takes effect immediately: you move to the lower tier's allowance right away, and the unused portion of what you already paid for the higher tier is credited against your next invoice.
- Cancelling takes effect at the end of the period you've already paid for — you keep access until then.
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