How credits work
One number for the AI meter.
Every action you take with Pango spends a few credits. Your plan comes with a monthly allocation; most groups stay well under. Here's exactly how it adds up — for the curious. You don't need to think about this to use Stateful.
What each action costs
Approximate. We tune these so the round-number plan allocations cover the real usage of real groups — and we'll surface a change in the changelog if we ever recalibrate.
| Action | Cost |
|---|---|
| A quick chat with Pango | 1 credit |
| A deeper turn where Pango edits an artifact | 5 credits |
| Summarize a stretch of the Timeline | 2 credits |
| Pango writes a Space description for the list card | 2 credits |
| Pango describes an uploaded photo for context | 2 credits |
| Regenerating the Timeline since the last update | 3 credits |
| First-ever Timeline generation (reads the whole history) | 10 credits |
Chatting with each other (not Pango) is free and unlimited. Only AI work spends credits.
Your free base, and how to add more
Free base
Start with 100 credits on us
Enough to plan something real — a weekend, a small project. Then 30 fresh credits arrive every month. When they run out, Pango pauses till the refresh; chatting with each other keeps going.
Credit blocks
$6.99 / mo
A recurring monthly top-up — +1,000 credits for $6.99, every month. Your monthly allowance is the free base plus every active block. Add as many as you want; each renews monthly and you can remove any of them anytime. Remove them all and you're back to free.
What that looks like in real life
An AI turn averages about 2 credits across real groups (mostly cheap, sometimes expensive). Translating that to actual planning volume:
Free start · 100 on us + 30 / mo
- ≈ 50 AI turns to start— Talking, planning, editing artifacts
- Then ≈ 15 fresh turns a month— Keeps a plan ticking over
- Enough to plan something real— A weekend, one small trip
- The whole planning toolkit— Itinerary, budget, decisions, more
Add blocks · add as many as you want
- +1,000 / block— $6.99/mo each — one simple price
- ≈ 500 more AI turns / block— Add two for double, three for triple — it just stacks
- Stack them— Allowance = free base + every active block
- Remove anytime— Each block is its own monthly subscription; remove all and you're back to free
These are typical workloads from real groups. The actual meter just adds up per-action costs from the table above.
One kind of credit — no surprise bills
Credits cover everything Pango does — planning, timelines, quick replies alike. You start with 100 credits on us, and 30 fresh creditsarrive each month. When they run out, Pango pauses until the refresh or until you add a block — there's never a metered overage or a surprise bill, and a gentle warning starts at 75% so it's not a shock.
Chatting is always free
Talking with each other in a Space never costs credits — only Pango's AI work does. So even when your credits are used up for the month, the group keeps talking; add a block or wait for the refresh to bring Pango's help back.
Need more sooner? Add a block
Add a credit block and the heavy work picks right back up — no waiting for the monthly refresh. Blocks are flat recurring subscriptions, so there's no metered charge and no surprise bill: you only ever pay for the blocks you added.
Your bill is exactly the blocks you're subscribed to — remove any of them anytime, and remove them all to drop back to the free base.
Why credits instead of seats
AI calls are what cost us real money. Seats don't. Pricing on credits means a planning-heavy group of two pays roughly the same as a chatty group of seven — fair on both ends, and it doesn't punish you for inviting people into a Space.