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  title: "Pricing overview"
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    "How Liveblocks pricing works: plans, credits, metered usage, and billing."
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Liveblocks is usage-based. You choose a plan, each plan includes a monthly
credit allowance, and your credits are applied to what your app actually uses.
You only pay more if your usage goes above your credits. For full plan details,
see the [pricing page](/pricing/).

## Plans

There are four plans, so you can pick the one that fits where you are:

- **Free:** for personal development, prototyping, and testing. No credit card
  required.
- **Pro:** for developers shipping collaborative features in production.
- **Team:** for teams shipping collaborative features at scale, with added
  security and support.
- **Enterprise:** a custom plan for premium security and partnership needs.

| Plan       | Monthly base                     | Included credits     |
| ---------- | -------------------------------- | -------------------- |
| Free       | $0                               | Free monthly credits |
| Pro        | $30 ($25 billed annually)        | $30                  |
| Team       | from $600 ($500 billed annually) | from $600            |
| Enterprise | Custom                           | Custom               |

See [Plans](/docs/pricing/plans) for full details on each plan.

## How usage is metered

Liveblocks charges for what your app uses, applied against your monthly credits
first. The main metered units:

| Unit                                                                    | Description                                           | Rate              |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------- | ----------------- |
| [Realtime collaboration minutes](/docs/pricing/plans/pro#Metered-usage) | Active time people and agents spend together in rooms | $0.002 per minute |
| [Comments created](/docs/pricing/plans/pro#Metered-usage)               | Each comment posted in your app                       | $0.01 per comment |
| [Realtime data storage updates](/docs/pricing/plans/pro#Metered-usage)  | Each change written to stored data                    | $1 per 1M updates |
| [Realtime data stored](/docs/pricing/plans/pro#Metered-usage)           | Total data kept in storage                            | $0.15 per GB      |
| [Monthly custom notifications](/docs/pricing/plans/pro#Metered-usage)   | Notifications you trigger from your own code          | $0.01 per event   |
| [File storage](/docs/pricing/plans/pro#Metered-usage)                   | Total files stored                                    | $0.15 per GB      |

Rates shown here are indicative. See
[Pro](/docs/pricing/plans/pro#Metered-usage) and
[Team](/docs/pricing/plans/team#Metered-usage) for current per-unit prices.

[Collaboration notifications](/docs/ready-made-features/notifications/concepts#Collaboration-notifications),
like mentions and thread replies, are included free.

## Credits

Every plan includes a monthly credit allowance that covers your metered usage
first. Credits reset at the start of each billing cycle and do not roll over.
Higher Team tiers include more credit value than they cost, so you get more
usage for the same base. Usage above your credits is overage, billed at the
per-unit rates above.

## Limits

Each plan has limits that protect your account and your costs. See
[Limits](/docs/pricing/limits) for the full list.

## Billing

You're billed monthly: your plan base plus any overage from the previous cycle.
Pay annually to get two months free. See [Billing](/docs/pricing/billing) for
details.

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For an overview of all available documentation, see [/llms.txt](/llms.txt).