# Pricing

> How a plan's requests are counted: what one request is, how many a month each plan gives, how many run at once, and when the month starts again.

Source: https://nodecode.ai/docs/pricing
Updated: 2026-10-13

Nodecode itself is free, under the MIT license, and runs on your own provider key. A plan from [nodecode.ai/pricing](https://nodecode.ai/pricing) adds the hosted models, and what it gives you is counted in requests.

## What one request is

One call to a model that the model accepts is one request: a chat completion or an image generation through `https://api.nodecode.ai/v1`. Nodecode makes one call each time it asks the model something, so one turn in which the agent runs a few evals and answers is a few requests.

Counts as one request:

- A chat completion the model answered, streamed or not.
- An image generation the model answered.

Costs nothing:

- Listing the models (`/v1/models`).
- A call refused because your requests at once are all busy.
- A call refused because the month's requests are used up.
- A call the model itself refused or failed, such as a prompt past its window.

The length of an answer does not change the count: a long streamed reply and a one-word reply are one request each. Tokens are shown under [Usage](https://nodecode.ai/account/usage) but are not counted against the plan.

## How many each plan gives

| Plan | Price | Requests a month | Requests at once |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Founders | €30 a month, or €300 a year | 20,000 | 4 |
| Founders Plus | €90 a month, or €900 a year | 80,000 | 8 |

2 months free on yearly plan. Prices are in euros in the EU and in dollars elsewhere, the same figures. Every plan carries the same four models. Usage on your [account](https://nodecode.ai/account/usage) cuts the month into four weeks of a quarter each to pace against; nothing stops at the end of a week.

## Requests at once

A plan runs that many requests at the same time across all your machines and keys. One more waits for a free place, up to 30 seconds, and is then answered with `429` and "all of them are busy. Try again shortly." A refused call is not counted.

## When the month starts again

The month starts on the day you subscribed and runs to the same day next month. A yearly plan is cut into twelve such months, each with the full allowance. Unused requests do not carry over.

When a month's requests are used up, a call is answered with `429`, saying when the month resets. To go on before then, **Refill** on [Billing](https://nodecode.ai/account/billing) buys the month again from today at the plan's price, and its count starts from zero. Refill is for monthly plans.