Pricing that grows
with you.

Free while it's a side project. Pro when it grows into a product. Team when you bring people on to build it. You only pay as you step up to the next stage, never to use what's already yours.

Free
Side projects & open-source
$0/ forever
Enough to run a real project on.
Start free
  • Unlimited public projects
  • 1 private project
  • Unlimited members on public · 2 on private
  • 500 knowledge writes / mo · editing is free
  • 5,000 stored nodes · archived don't count
  • Full text + semantic search & RAG
  • Assistant · 250 turns/mo (up to 40/day)
  • Local plugin (MCP + hooks + SDK)
  • Hosted MCP · no local server needed
  • Full version history
  • Community support
For solo devs
Pro
Solo devs with private work to keep
$12/ month
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Get started
  • Everything in Free, plus
  • Unlimited private projects
  • 3,000 knowledge writes / mo · 50,000 stored nodes
  • 5 members per private project
  • Assistant · 1,500 turns/mo
  • Monthly knowledge review · an agent gardens your graph
  • Custom domain
  • Email support
Team
When you bring people on to build with you
$20/ user / mo
Per person. Bring as many agents as you want, free.
Get started
  • Everything in Pro, plus
  • Unlimited members & projects
  • Assistant · 5,000 turns/mo, pooled across the team
  • Biweekly knowledge review
  • Roles + audit log
  • Cross-project search
  • Dedicated support

Enterprise

Large repos, custom limits, an SLA, and a relationship. SSO and self-hosting are add-ons from Team upward, never locked behind a self-serve wall.

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Free
Pro
Team
Enterprise
Projects
Public projects
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Private projects
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Custom
Members · public project
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Members · private / org
2
5
Seat-based
Custom
Knowledge & retrieval
Full-text + semantic RAG
Full
Full
Full
Full
New knowledge writes / month
500
3,000
Unlimited
Custom
Editing & superseding
Free
Free
Free
Free
Stored nodes
5,000
50,000
Unlimited
Custom
Reads, search & recall
Unmetered
Unmetered
Unmetered
Unmetered
Version history
Full
Full
Full
Full
Inference & agents
Assistant
250/mo
1,500/mo
5,000/mo, pooled
Custom
Hosted MCP endpoint
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Scheduled knowledge review
DIY
Monthly
Biweekly
Custom
Operations
Custom domain
Optional
Yes
Yes
SSO / self-hosting
Add-on
Yes
Support
Community
Email
Dedicated
SLA

Bolt-ons, when you need them

Team & up · contact us

SSO

SAML / OIDC single sign-on for your whole org. Available from Team upward, with no Enterprise upsell to get there.

Team & up · contact us

Self-hosting

Run Stele on your own infrastructure, with limits you set end to end. Built for stealth startups and regulated teams.

The honest answers

Do you meter my reads or searches?

No. Search and retrieval are unlimited on every plan, including Free. There's no per-query or per-token charge for reading your own knowledge, and there never will be. What Free does cap is how much you add: 500 new knowledge writes a month and 5,000 stored nodes.

What counts as a knowledge write?

Adding something new — a decision, a lesson, a task, a document. Editing, superseding, or archiving what's already there doesn't count, and never will: keeping a record correct is the whole point, and charging for a correction would be charging for the thing that makes the record worth having. Archived nodes also stop counting toward your stored total, so putting old work away frees room without deleting it.

Why does Pro have a limit at all?

To stop a runaway agent, not to sell you the next plan up. Pro's ceiling sits above the heaviest real use we've ever measured — including our own, and we use this thing all day. If you're a solo developer writing to your record constantly, you will not meet it. We publish the numbers rather than saying "unlimited" because a limit you can't see is worse than one you can.

What happens when I hit the monthly write limit?

Your agent is told, and it tells you. Reading, searching, recall, and editing all keep working — only adding something new pauses, and it resumes on the 1st. There's a little headroom past the number so a session in progress never dies mid-thought. Importing an existing codebase doesn't touch the monthly limit either: every account gets a one-time allowance so your first backfill runs start to finish.

What counts as a private project?

Any project that isn't world-readable. Free includes one private project; Pro makes them unlimited. Public projects, readable by anyone and writable only by members, are unlimited on every plan.

What happens when I hit my assistant monthly limit?

It pauses and tells you rather than cutting you off mid-conversation. Your turns pick back up when the day or month resets, or the moment you upgrade. On Free, turns are also spread across the month, up to 40 a day. Pro raises the cap to 1,500 turns/mo; Team pools 5,000 across members.

Is the CLI, plugin, and SDK free?

Yes, forever. The CLI, plugin, SDK, and hosted MCP are free on every plan. Paid plans add private capacity, more assistant turns, and team operations, never access to the core agent surfaces. The hosted endpoint connects ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client to your record with one URL — setup steps here.

Why is Team worth it over buying Pro seats?

Team-only value: a pooled assistant budget, roles + an audit log, cross-project search, and a dedicated support relationship. If all you need is more private projects, Pro is the right call.

It starts free.

Public projects, real search, and a capped-but-real assistant. No card, no trial clock. Upgrade the day you need to keep something private.

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