Pricing
Simple pricing. Free to start.
The full Mel terminal is a free download today. The AI agent is free to start — 150 credits a month with no API keys, or bring your own key for unlimited use, and 1,500 credits a month on Pro.
Free
The full terminal, free forever — with 150 AI credits a month, plus unlimited with your own key.
- The full Mel terminal — blocks, palette, splits, chips — free to download now
- Built-in code review, editor & LSP
- CLI agents, SSH melting & web search
- 150 hosted-AI credits every month — some AI on us
- Bring your own provider key for unlimited AI, free
- macOS, Windows & Linux
Pro
Recommended1,500 hosted-AI credits every month across every frontier model — no keys to manage.
- 1,500 hosted-AI credits every month across every frontier model
- All frontier models — Claude, GPT, Gemini, and more — no keys to manage
- Automatic model routing + fallback
- Add-on credit packs + optional auto-reload
- Email support
- Cancel anytime
Max
Pro with the biggest bucket — 18,000 credits a month.
- 18,000 hosted-AI credits every month — the biggest bucket
- Unlimited cross-session memory + up to 8 agents in parallel
- For power users who live in the agent
- Priority support
- Cancel anytime
For teams
Per-seat credits, centralized billing, one invoice.
Business
Pro for a team — shared billing and priority support.
- 1,500 hosted-AI credits per seat, every month
- Centralized billing across your team
- Org-wide spend limit
- Priority support
- Team management & SSO — coming soon
- Cancel anytime
Something bigger?
Rolling Mel out to a larger org, or need volume seats, procurement paperwork, or security questions answered first? Tell us what you need and a human will get back to you.
Contact usOr email us any time — we read everything.
Free is free forever. Every paid plan includes a monthly credit allotment across all frontier models — simple credits, never per-token surprise billing; bring your own key for unlimited use. Cancel anytime.
Compare plans
Everything Mel can do, by plan.
The whole terminal is free. Plans differ on how many monthly AI credits you get — and, on Business, team billing.
Free $0 Download | Pro $20/mo · $18 annual Get Pro | Max $200/mo · $180 annual Get Max | Business $50/seat/mo · $45 annual Get Business | |
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| AI & models | ||||
| Monthly hosted-AI credits | 150 / mo | 1,500 / mo | 18,000 / mo | 1,500 / seat / mo |
| All frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, Moonshot, GLM) | On your credits | |||
| Bring your own key — free, unlimited, 0 credits | ||||
| Automatic model routing + fallback | ||||
| Reasoning-effort levels | ||||
| Web search (built-in, ~1 credit / search) | ||||
| Multi-agent orchestration — parallel agents | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 / seat |
| Image understanding (vision) — images / message | 3 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Cross-session agent memory — recall window | 30 days | 1 year | Unlimited | 1 year |
| Add-on credit packs (400/1k/3k/6.5k) | — | Org | ||
| Auto-reload (off by default) | — | |||
| Terminal & coding — all free, every tier | ||||
| Modern terminal — blocks, palette, splits, chips | ||||
| Built-in code review panel | ||||
| Built-in editor with real LSP (rust-analyzer, tsserver, pyright, clangd) | ||||
| CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, …) embedded — 0 Mel credits | ||||
| SSH melting — run the agent on a remote host | ||||
| Global search (ripgrep, git-grep fallback) | ||||
| Mel Drive — workflows, prompts, notebooks (local, unlimited) | ||||
| macOS, Windows & Linux | ||||
| Team & billing | ||||
| Seats | 1 | 1 | 1 | Per seat |
| Centralized billing across your team | — | — | — | |
| Org-wide spend limit | — | — | — | |
| Team management & SSO | — | — | — | Coming soon |
| Team usage visibility | Individual | Individual | Individual | Coming soon |
| Privacy & support | ||||
| Your own key stays on your device (keychain / 0600 file) | ||||
| Hosted keys held server-side (never in the app) | ||||
| Local-first — conversations & Drive stay on your machine | ||||
| Approve every write, edit & command | ||||
| Community support | ||||
| Email support | — | |||
| Priority support | — | — | ||
Privacy & security
Your privacy and security.
Transparency and control at every touchpoint — by design, not as an add-on.
Hosted-plan keys live on the Mel relay — never shipped in the app. Bring your own key and it stays on your device, in the OS keychain.
Conversations and history live on your computer, not our servers. You decide what leaves your machine.
Writes, edits, and commands round-trip an approval card. The agent never changes files behind your back.
FAQ
Questions & answers
Yes. The full Mel terminal — blocks, palette, splits, chips, code review, editor and LSP — is a free download today on macOS, Windows and Linux. No account required.
Sign up for a free Mel account in the app — it's instant, no waitlist. The Free plan includes 150 hosted-AI credits a month; bring your own key for unlimited use, or upgrade to Pro for 1,500 credits/mo.
No. On the hosted models, Mel talks to a relay that holds the model keys server-side, so there's nothing to configure. You can also bring your own provider key any time if you'd rather use your own account — that unlocks unlimited use on the Free plan. Without a key you get 150 credits a month.
macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Windows 10/11, and Linux. It's a direct download — no account required.
Conversations and history are stored locally on your machine, under your home directory. Mel is local-first by default.
Yes — bring your own provider key any time, and let 'auto' route each task to the best one.
Business is Pro for a team — every seat gets 1,500 credits/mo, with centralized billing, org spend limits, and priority support, at $50/seat. Team management and SSO are on the roadmap.
Each paid plan includes a monthly credit allotment (Pro 1,500, Max 18,000, Business 1,500/seat) that works across every frontier model. Credits reset each month; add-on packs roll over. Run out and the agent pauses — shell and your own key keep working. Manage or cancel anytime from the billing portal. Annual saves 10%.
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Free to download. Free to start with AI.
The Mel terminal is free to download. The AI agent is free with monthly credits or your own key — 1,500 credits a month on Pro.