Credits, metering, and what is free

Credits and metering

CueCrux pricing has three parts, and the boundary between them is deliberately sharp.

Free forever

The local Crux Daemon: receipts, passports, RCX, sessions, ExecPlans, the operator console, and local retrieval (lexical plus graph fusion, and the dense lane if you bring your own embedder). The local dense lane is never metered. No trial clock, no account.

Subscriptions

• Pro, £19/user·mo. Hosted sync, multi-device passports, better-dense rerank.
• Governance, £49/user·mo. Fleet-wide cost attribution, policy gates, and revocation that propagates with proof.

Metered credits

Heavy lifts that run on hosted infrastructure (dense rerank, extraction, attestations) meter at roughly £0.01 per credit. Two properties matter more than the price:

• Every credit spend mints a signed receipt. Your bill is a verifiable trail, not an estimate. Attribution runs fleet to agent to verb to receipt, with nothing estimated.
• Local work is never metered. If the daemon can do it on your CPU, it is free, permanently.

Budgeting note

Token budgets are separate from credits: every retrieval call carries a hard token_budget and the daemon trims to fit. Budgets control context spend; credits control hosted compute spend. See the token budget FAQ.