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What each plan includes, the free way to run it, and what happens when a plan ends.

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The plan with the AI included#

For $59 a month or $599 a year, Archie comes with $25 of Claude usage each month, so you need no AI account of your own.

Where it is: Offered when you choose a plan in Archie, beside the plan where you connect your own AI account.
How to use it: Choose a plan in Archie.
Pick the one with the AI included.
Limits: Your agent will not read your email or your texts on this plan. Both work once you connect an AI account of your own.
The $25 refills each paid month and nothing rolls over. When it is used, your agent pauses until next month or until you connect your own AI account.
What you write passes through our server on the way to Anthropic. The server records what each request cost, never what it said, and keeps no copy.
Free credits you have left end when the plan starts.
Guide: What your agent costs to run

When a computer has used its free credits, you can still try Archie for 14 days by connecting an AI account of your own.

Where it is: Archie offers it when the free credits cannot be claimed on your computer.
How to use it: Connect an AI account of your own when Archie offers the 14 days.
Archie checks that the key works, then starts the trial.
Limits: You pay your AI company for what your agent uses during the 14 days.
Archie still checks your plan, checks for updates and reads the add-on store during the trial. Your conversations do not pass through us.
It is offered only after the free credits are used up on that computer.

During a free trial, a strip at the bottom of the window says what Archie costs afterward, and the Account page's Your plan row says the same.

Where it is: The strip at the bottom of the Archie window during a trial, with Get a plan. On the Account page, under Sign-in, the Your plan row, with See plans.
How to use it: Press Get a plan on the strip, or See plans on the Your plan row, to open the plan chooser.
Limits: The strip and the row never name the plan with the AI included. The chooser behind Get a plan and See plans does.
Archie for Teams has no free tier. It is $99 a month or $999 a year, on an AI account of your own.
The number of answers left on the free credits is an estimate, since one long document costs as much as many short questions.
The free credits may be switched off, so the credits line may not appear.

Ask your agent what Archie costs or the cheapest way to keep going, and Archie answers from its own price list without asking the AI.

Where it is: In your agent's chat.
How to use it: Type a short question, such as "What does Archie cost?"
From your phone: Ask from Archie Mobile or a chat app, and the answer arrives like any reply.
Limits: The question has to be about Archie, the AI, or your plan. "What do we charge for a unit?" goes to your agent as usual.
Only your own typed question. A teammate's question goes to the agent.
Asked how much is left, it says the count and the day, never a price.
At about three answers left on the free credits, one line under a reply says so, once until the balance goes up.

Buy a plan without the AI in it, and Archie asks for your AI account next, so your first agent starts as soon as it is made.

Where it is: The Add your AI account screen, right after you buy a plan and before Archie opens. Later, it is Settings at the bottom of the left sidebar, then Saved keys.
How to use it: Pick your AI company, or press Show me how for the steps to get a key.
Paste the key and press Save and open Archie.
Or press Not now, and Archie asks again the next time it opens.
Limits: It saves an AI account you already have. Show me how walks you through getting one from the AI company.
Your agents cannot answer anybody until an AI account is saved.
Archie for Teams never includes the AI.
Archie Mobile has no checkout, so this happens on the computer only.
Guide: Picking your AI account

Paste a key from an AI company and Archie opens for free, with every skill and routine, up to 20 jobs a day. A plan takes the limit off.

Where it is: Paste the key when Archie first asks for one, or on your agent's Setup tab, under AI account.
How to use it: Make a key at an AI company such as Anthropic or OpenAI.
Paste it into Archie when it asks, or on your agent's Setup tab, under AI account.
From your phone: Archie Mobile is not included; it needs a plan or a free trial that is still running.
Limits: 20 jobs a day. A job is a reply to you, a routine running, or an email it reacts to, and the count starts again at midnight.
Routines and the mail and text watches stop at 15, so the last 5 jobs of the day are yours.
Free covers one agent, checked when you add one. A plan runs up to ten.
Archie only. Archie for Teams has nothing free.

A plan lives on your Otian account, so signing in on another computer gets the same plan.

Limits: Only the plan follows you. Your agents are files on the computer, and a backup file is how they move.
Add-ons are added again on a new computer.
The free starter credits are counted per computer and do not follow the account.

A plan you stop runs to the end of the period you paid for. Nothing on your computer is deleted, and what opens next depends on your edition and key.

Where it is: On the Account page, under Your plan, press Manage plan.
How to use it: Save a backup first, on the Account page, under Backups.
On the Account page, under Your plan, press Manage plan to stop it.
Limits: On Archie with an AI key saved, Archie keeps opening at 20 jobs a day. Without a saved key, it asks for one.
Archie for Teams has nothing free, so it asks for a plan.
Every agent you made stays and keeps working. Adding one past the free allowance of one agent is refused.
Save a backup before you stop. The screen that asks for a plan also has Save a backup of your agents.