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Plans and usage

Pay for a workspace.
Keep model choice clear.

Every plan combines the Charles agent workspace with a managed usage allowance. Connect your own provider when you prefer direct billing, and approve extra Charles usage before it is charged.

Every paid plan

Visible

Route and billing owner

Bounded

Allowance and wallet controls

Flexible

Managed models or BYOK

Choose a plan

Start with the amount of work you run.

Annual plans lower the effective monthly price. Usage limits and billing ownership stay visible in your account.

Most builders

Recommended

Charles Pro

Managed multi-model routing that finishes the job — plan, build, verify — on your machine.

$16/ month

Billed $192 once per year

Best for

Daily agent work: coding sessions with automatic model choice, escalation when stuck, and local tools.

  • Managed multi-model routing (auto)
  • Supported CLI agents in one workspace
  • 12M weighted tokens/month
  • Quality escalation when stuck
  • FullAuto staged agent loop
  • 2 managed creations at once · 7-day private staging
  • BYOK for your own providers

High volume

Charles Max

Headroom for all-day agent loops, heavy refactors, and multi-project work.

$80/ month

Billed $960 once per year

Best for

Heavy, all-day use across multiple projects — more tokens and priority routing.

  • Everything in Pro
  • 75M weighted tokens/month
  • Priority managed routing
  • Wallet overage · 10% off retail
  • Creation credits · 10% member rate
  • 6 managed creations at once · 7-day private staging
  • Higher device limit (5)

Managed rollout

Charles Team

Custom onboarding, controls, and billing for teams that need Charles managed with us.

Custom

Best for

Teams that want a managed rollout, shared controls, and custom usage terms.

  • Managed by the Charles team
  • Custom usage allowance
  • 8 managed creations at once per member
  • Shared workspaces
  • Centralized billing
  • Priority rollout support
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Managed overage currently starts at $2.38 per weighted 1M tokens for Pro and $2.25 for Max. Availability and final totals are shown before confirmation.

Three usage lanes

Know who provides the model—and who sends the bill.

Charles treats execution route, availability, and billing ownership as product state, not fine print.

Managed models

Charles billed

Choose from the catalog published to your account. Pro includes 12M tokens/mo; Max includes 75M tokens/mo.

No silent fallback

Your agents and providers

Provider billed

Use a supported CLI you already signed into, or connect a provider key. Charles supplies the organized workspace; that provider bills its own model usage directly.

No silent fallback

Charles Native

Qualification gated

Our purpose-built route appears only after it passes release, safety, runtime, and evaluation gates for your account.

No silent fallback

Questions

Clear before checkout.

The account area remains the source of truth for current entitlement, usage, devices, and renewal state.

Charles chooses from the model routes currently published to your account. The route, billing owner, and availability remain visible; Charles does not silently turn a hosted request into BYOK usage or the reverse.

Need a managed rollout?

Talk through seats, provider policy, shared controls, and deployment before committing.

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