Pricing — the rate card
One runtime.
Three licenses.
Developer is free: the full read-only surface, provenance on every result, free login, one device, no card. Paid tiers license machines, seats, and commercial rights — they never buy better answers.
$0 · $25 · $99 — one ladder
IThe rate card
The tariff, in full.
Everything a tier gates is printed above the rule. Everything below it, no tier touches.
Billed through Stripe. The number on the card is the number on the invoice.
Developer needs none — install and go.
Tiers gate machines, seats, and rights.
Never the compute.
same runtime · same surface · same hashes — on every tier
IIThe server license
The fourth license runs on your metal.
Production deployments license by Compute Unit — one unit is 4 vCPU, and the quantity is simply how many the deployment may run at once. Pin it to a node, or float it across a pool through a relay you run.
- Unit of account
- 1 Compute Unit = 4 vCPU. You buy a ceiling, not a meter — SQAI never counts your queries.
- Pinned or floating
- License one node, or arbitrate a floating pool through a relay inside your network. Your infrastructure, your call.
- Air-gap ready
- Offline activation ceremony — a license for machines that never see a network.
- Verified locally
- RS256-signed, checked on your hardware. Nothing phones home; usage is never monitored.
- Never a hard stop
- A lapsed license settles at the Developer tier. The runtime keeps answering while you renew.
IIIThe free tier
Free is the product, not a trial of it.
- Start
- createSQAI() runs the query plane immediately for local files. Run the free sqai login once before local compute provisions.
- Surface
- The full read-only surface: 4,574 capabilities across all 445 compute modules. Not a sample.
- Provenance
- Every result carries its replay hashes — on the free tier too.
- Locality
- Your rows never leave the process. The only fetch is the one-time signed runtime bundle — runtime code coming in, not data going out.
- Speed
- The first compute provisions in about 110 seconds. After that, 0.83–0.93 ms warm.
- The limit
- One device, non-commercial use. That is the entire restriction.
When the work turns commercial, or needs more machines, the ladder starts at $25.
IVSign-in
A code, not a credential.
sqai login is free and required before local compute provisions and follows the RFC 8628 device flow: the CLI prints a short code, you type it at accounts.thyn.ai, and a signed device license lands on your machine. It moves a signed token — never your data.
$sqai login
› open accounts.thyn.ai/activate
› enter code WDJB-MJHT
✓ signed device license → ~/.sqai
- The license is written to ~/.sqai with mode 600 and works offline from then on.
- Servers and CI skip the browser: set SQAI_API_KEY instead.
- The token licenses the device, not the rows. Your sources, queries, and results never touch it.
- sqai logout deletes it. Nothing else changes.
VDistribution
Found in the registry. Billed by us.
SQAI reaches agent builders through the AI SDK Tools Registry. The registry is discovery only — there is no billing inside it. Billing runs direct, on our Stripe, at the prices printed above.
Channel manifest
ai-sdk.dev/tools-registrydiscovery — a listing, not a billsqai.com/pricingthe rate card — every price, printedaccounts.thyn.ai?app=sqaisign-in, upgrades, devicesThe registry lists. We bill. No one in between.
VIQuestions
Fine print, printed large.
Is the Developer tier actually free?
Yes, and it is not a trial. Developer grants the full read-only surface — 4,574 capabilities across all 445 compute modules — with replay hashes on every result. The limits are one device and non-commercial use. Nothing else is held back.
Do I need an account or API key to start?
No. Local files and the query plane start without a key. Local compute requires one free sqai login device enrollment, or SQAI_API_KEY in server/CI environments. Sign-in exists to attach a license, not to unlock the product.
Do paid tiers compute anything Developer can't?
No. Tiers gate machines, seats, and rights — never the compute. Pro adds commercial use, three devices, async jobs, webhooks, and an audit trail. Team raises it to ten devices and adds seats and RBAC. Runtime, surface, and hashes are identical on all three.
Can I use the free tier at work?
Developer is licensed for one device and non-commercial use. Commercial work is what Pro licenses — $25 per month, three devices. The line is a right, not a feature: nothing in the product behaves differently.
What does sqai login actually send?
A signed token. The RFC 8628 device flow prints a code like WDJB-MJHT, you enter it at accounts.thyn.ai, and an offline device license is written to ~/.sqai with mode 600. Your data never moves.
Is billing through Vercel?
No. The AI SDK Tools Registry is discovery only — it has no billing in it. Prices on this page mirror our Stripe lookup keys, sqai_pro_monthly and sqai_team_monthly, and upgrades run through accounts.thyn.ai.