Pricing
Every plan starts with a 14-day Pro trial. No card up front, and $1 of Kernel Credits so the hosted agent works immediately.
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Basic
$19.99/month
$199/year
One Mac, up to 10 nodes.
$16.58/month, billed yearly
- 10 nodes
- 3 heartbeat actions per node
- 1 Mac
- Bring your own coding agent
- Outward organs (chat, mail) — guardrailed
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Pro
$49.99/month
$499/year
Unlimited nodes. Learning layer. Hosted relay.
$41.58/month, billed yearly
- Everything in Basic
- Unlimited nodes
- 15 heartbeat actions per node
- Learning layer per node
- 2 Macs · 3 collab invites
- Hosted relay (read) · sub-minute heartbeat · MCP
- Assay dashboard
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Premium
$149/month
$1,490/year
Unlimited everything. Shared learning. Live view.
$124.17/month, billed yearly
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited heartbeat actions
- Shared learning pool
- Unlimited Macs and invites
- Hosted relay (read + write)
- Brokered live-view
Kernel Credits
Credits pay for the hosted agent lane — the one where you bring no key at all. Usage is metered per request and drawn from a prepaid balance; there is no subscription for it.
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Top up in $5, $10, or $20
Buy a pack from your account page whenever the balance runs low. Credits do not expire while the account is open.
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$1 to start
Every verified account gets $1 of credits at signup, so the hosted lane works before you decide anything.
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Or bring your own key
Own-key lanes cost no credits at all. Your provider bills you directly; Kernel never sees the key.
The details
Yearly billing is ten months for twelve. The trial runs at Pro for 14 days from the moment you verify your email — our own clock, not a card hold. When it ends, your nodes and credits stay; the paid-tier features switch off until you pick a plan.
Plans are per account. You can change tier or interval at any time from your account page, and cancel from the same place.