Billing
How the credit-based billing model works, what the available plans are, and how to manage your subscription.
Superpositional uses credit-based billing. You pay for credits consumed, not per seat. Adding more people to your org doesn't change your bill.
Credits
A credit is the unit of consumption. When Superpositional does work that involves LLM reasoning — reviewing a PR, answering a chat question, generating a document, investigating an issue — it costs credits. The number of credits consumed depends on the complexity of the operation (how much reasoning and how many tokens are involved).
You can see your current credit usage on the Settings → Usage tab. It shows credits consumed in the current billing period, your credit limit (if applicable), and when the period resets.
Billing modes
There are three billing modes:
Free
New organisations start on the Free plan with a one-time credit grant. Once credits are exhausted, operations that require LLM reasoning are blocked until you upgrade.
Indexing, semantic search, and other non-LLM operations continue to work on the Free plan regardless of credit balance.
Pay-as-you-go (PAYG)
No upfront purchase. You're billed monthly for the credits you consume at $0.20 per credit. There's no credit limit — operations are never blocked. Stripe invoices you at the end of each billing period.
To switch to PAYG, click Upgrade Plan on the Settings → Usage tab. This starts a Stripe checkout flow where you set up a payment method and subscribe.
Prepaid
Buy credit blocks upfront at a volume discount. Credits draw down as you use them. When your prepaid credits run out, behaviour depends on the overage billing setting:
- Overage enabled: Operations continue. Usage beyond your prepaid credits is billed at the standard $0.20/credit rate on your next invoice.
- Overage disabled: Operations that require credits are blocked until you purchase more credits or enable overage.
Available prepaid plans:
| Plan | Credits | Price | Per credit | Discount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly 1,000 | 1,000 | $190/mo | $0.19 | 5% |
| Monthly 5,000 | 5,000 | $900/mo | $0.18 | 10% |
| Monthly 15,000 | 15,000 | $2,400/mo | $0.16 | 20% |
Larger volumes and annual plans are available on request.
Managing your subscription
Billing is managed through Stripe. From the Settings → Usage tab:
- Upgrade Plan — starts a Stripe checkout session to subscribe to PAYG or purchase a prepaid credit block.
- Manage Plan — opens the Stripe billing portal where you can update payment methods, view and download invoices, and cancel your subscription.
Only the org owner can access billing controls.
Overage billing (prepaid only)
If you're on a prepaid plan, you can toggle overage billing from the Settings → Usage tab. When overage is enabled, Superpositional requires a valid payment method on file — Stripe bills overage usage at the standard $0.20/credit rate when your next invoice finalises.
When overage is disabled and your credits reach zero, operations that require LLM reasoning are blocked. You'll see a message in the UI indicating credits are exhausted.
What consumes credits
Credits are consumed by operations that involve LLM reasoning:
- PR reviews — automated code review with guard enforcement
- Chat queries — natural-language questions answered via the chat interface or MCP
asktool - Document generation — creating summaries, changelogs, and architecture docs
- Issue investigation — root cause analysis triggered by GitHub issues
- CI failure diagnostics — automatic investigation of failed workflows
- Deep analysis — multi-step reasoning escalated from chat
Operations that do not consume credits:
- Repository indexing and re-indexing
- Semantic search (code search, entity lookup, dependency traversal)
- Document freshness checks (structural comparison, no LLM involved)
- Viewing flows, repos, documents, and settings