Credits and plans
Saving to Sensefold is free. Credits pay for the AI processing that turns a capture into something searchable: extraction, summary, tags, OCR, transcripts. Nothing you save is ever rejected for lack of credits.
What spends credits
Section titled “What spends credits”Automatic enrichment of a capture — a link, page, thread, or AI chat saved
from the extension, the apps, or an agent’s save_link; an image; a PDF
(priced per page); a video. Re-running the summary and tags on an item spends
credits again.
What never spends credits
Section titled “What never spends credits”- Saving anything, on any surface.
- Writing and editing notes. Notes are indexed for search but never
enriched, so they cost nothing — whether you write them or an agent saves
them with
save_note. - Search, in the apps and over MCP.
- Every MCP read (
search_hub,list_items,get_item,get_quota,search,fetch) and the note and tag writes (update_note,update_tags). - The extension’s summary preview before you save.
- Copy as Markdown and the whole-library export.
| Starter | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $16/month or $160/year | $36/month or $396/year |
| Credits | 7,000 per month | 20,000 per month |
| Storage | 2 GB | 20 GB |
Monthly credits reset at the start of each billing period and do not roll over. Purchased credits (see below) are spent only after the monthly allowance is used up.
14-day free trial. New subscriptions start with a 14-day trial and 800 trial credits. A card is required; you are charged when the trial ends and can cancel anytime before that. One trial per account.
Credit pack. 5,000 credits for $16, one-time. Pack credits never expire and anyone can buy one — no subscription needed. Without a plan, storage is capped at 200 MB.
Current prices are always on the pricing page.
What happens at zero credits
Section titled “What happens at zero credits”Nothing is blocked and nothing already processed is lost. Your library stays searchable and your agents keep working on everything already indexed.
New saves land as pending captures:
- Links are kept as the URL alone — no text, summary, or tags are fetched yet, so the source can change or disappear before you process it.
- Files keep their original content; OCR and summaries wait.
- Notes are stored in full. Notes saved while you were at zero are indexed when you next process pending items (that step costs nothing).
Once you have credits again — a credit pack or the next monthly grant — the web app lists what is pending, shows the total cost, and processes it in bulk with Process now. PDFs are priced per page, so the preview shows a lower bound until the page count is known.
Checking your balance
Section titled “Checking your balance”Your balance and reset date are in the web app under Settings. Agents can
call get_quota, which returns credits.monthly, credits.purchased,
credits.total, credits.monthlyCap, and resetsAt — useful when an agent
needs to explain why an item it saved has no summary yet.