Plans & credits
The core of Olace is free: running models on your own devices, and reaching them from your paired devices, is never metered. The free plan is called Local: everything that runs on your hardware, free, forever. Credits exist only for the cloud, where Olace pays providers on your behalf. Current prices live on the pricing page.
What is always free
- Local AI on your computer, with no account at all if you like.
- Paired AI between your devices, on every plan.
- Chat on your own API keys (BYOK), on plans that include BYOK.
Credits
Cloud features are metered in credits, and the cost is shown before you use a metered cloud feature.
| Action | Credits |
|---|---|
| Local or paired AI, the model itself | 0 |
| Bring your own key, the model itself | 0 |
| Cloud chat, standard model | 0.5 |
| Cloud chat, premium model | 1 |
| Image generation | 4 |
| Research on local or paired models | 25 |
| Research on a cloud model | 40 |
On the Local plan only, a local, paired, or BYOK turn can add at most 1 credit for the whole turn when it uses Olace-paid web search or cloud vision on your behalf. Paid plans include these, so those turns stay at 0.
Plans
| Local | Plus | Pro | Founders Lifetime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local & paired AI | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| Monthly cloud credits | Starter Pack | 300 | 1000 | 100 + 2,000 welcome |
| Pairings | 1 | 5 | 20 | 20 |
| Projects | 2 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Encrypted conversation sync | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own keys | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| One-time credit packs | No | No | Yes | Yes |
The Starter Pack is a one-time 50 cloud credits for new Local accounts, valid for 60 days, so you can try cloud features before deciding.
Credit packs are one-time top-ups for Pro and Founders Lifetime: 200 credits for $5, or 700 credits for $15. Pack credits never expire and sit on top of the credits your plan grants each month. Your monthly credits are always spent first, so a pack is only drawn down once the month's allowance runs out.
Buy a pack wherever you are: in the desktop app under Settings, Billing, on the web at olace.app/buy?pack=credits_small, or, where the mobile apps offer it, inside iOS and Android, with the App Store or Google Play handling the purchase and showing the price in your own currency. The credits land in the same account balance either way, so a pack bought on your phone is spent on your computer.
Trials and billing
Plus has a 14-day free trial, cancel any time. Local and paired AI stay free either way. Manage your subscription in the app under Account, or at olace.app/billing. Subscriptions started in the App Store or Google Play are managed through the store.
If you go over a pairing cap after a downgrade, extra pairings are paused, not deleted; your most recently used pairings stay active, and upgrading reactivates the rest.