# What it costs

> Per machine, per month. Yearly is cheaper. The models and the servers are billed by other people.

The unit is **a connected machine**. Not a person, not a message, not a project.

## The numbers

| | Monthly | Yearly |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Individual** | $20 per machine per month | $15 per machine per month, taken as $180 a machine once a year |
| **Teams** | $45 per machine per month | $32 per machine per month, taken as $384 a machine once a year |
| **Enterprise** | — | custom, annual only |

> The figure on the button when you connect a machine is the one your card is
> charged: worked out by the payment processor, prorated, tax included. You are
> never shown a price after the fact.

## What you are not charged for

**The models.** Every message goes on the subscription that agent is signed in
with. Anthropic, OpenAI, Moonshot and xAI bill you; we never see it and take
nothing from it.

**The server.** You own it. Your provider bills you directly. A small VPS is
usually a few dollars a month, and nothing in beafk can stop, resize or delete
it.

**People.** On Teams, members are unlimited. Adding a colleague costs nothing.

## The seven days

Your first machine is free for a week, with no card. The clock starts when the
machine actually connects — not when you sign up — so getting the code and
running the install tomorrow costs you nothing today.

**The trial covers one machine.** That is what the week is for: whether an agent
you left running overnight is still working in the morning. A second machine
during the week is an ordinary paid seat, quoted on the screen before you press
anything.

If you need longer to decide, ask us:
[hi@beafk.app](mailto:hi@beafk.app).

## Adding a machine

If a seat is free, nothing. Seats free the moment a machine is disconnected, so
swapping a dead server is not a purchase.

If every seat is taken, one more seat, prorated to the days left in your period.
The screen quotes the exact figure before you press anything.

Inside a period, that is the only thing that moves the bill: a seat you stop
using comes off at the renewal rather than the same day — see
[changing your plan](https://beafk.app/docs/changing-your-plan.md).

## A worked example

A solo developer with one VPS: **$15 a month** on the yearly plan, plus whatever
the VPS costs, plus the Claude subscription they were already paying for.

A team of eight sharing four machines: **$128 a month** on the yearly Teams plan
— four machines, not eight people — plus four servers, plus their own agent
subscriptions. The ninth person to join costs nothing.

## Seeing the figure for yourself

The connect screen quotes what your card will be charged before it gives you
anything to run — and for a first machine there is nothing to quote, because
there is no card.

[Connect a machine](https://beafk.app/login?return_to=/machines/connect)

Changing it later — machines, plans, monthly to yearly, stopping — is
[changing your plan](https://beafk.app/docs/changing-your-plan.md).

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beafk documentation · Start here · https://beafk.app/docs/what-it-costs

In this section:
- What beafk is — https://beafk.app/docs/what-is-beafk.md
- What it costs — https://beafk.app/docs/what-it-costs.md (this page)
- What beafk does not do — https://beafk.app/docs/what-beafk-does-not-do.md
- Questions people ask — https://beafk.app/docs/questions-people-ask.md
- Moving from Cursor — https://beafk.app/docs/moving-from-cursor.md
- What you need before you start — https://beafk.app/docs/what-you-need.md

Every page, one line each: https://beafk.app/docs/llms.txt
All of it in one file: https://beafk.app/docs/llms-full.txt