Plans and tokens

#Tokens

A token is Ripping's unit of build work. 100 tokens is about a dollar of value. Measured across real builds, an average build turn costs about 135 tokens; the Billing page puts it as "100 tokens is about one small feature; a fresh app is around 300." A one-word tweak costs a fraction; a long prompt against a large project costs several times that.

Every prompt shows its expected tokens under the composer before you send it, and each reply shows what it actually cost. Chat and Design turns are priced too, but the design panel's own controls (themes, colours, fonts, layouts) cost nothing.

Max Quality runs several attempts and keeps the best; it costs roughly three to four times a normal turn and asks first.

#The first build is free

The first build on an account does not touch its tokens. It has its own room of 400 tokens, and if it runs out of time and continues itself, up to four chained turns count as the same free build. The next day's edit is a new turn and pays for itself.

#Plans

As shipped (the Billing page shows the current figures):

Singularity scales by units: pick a Size from 1 to 20 units on the tier card or the slider, and the tokens and price scale together (2 units is $90 for 10,000 tokens). Changing size mid-month is prorated on the next invoice.

The monthly allowance resets on your billing date and does not roll over. Tokens you buy on top (top-ups, from $10 for 1,000 tokens as shipped) are kept as a separate balance and spent after the allowance.

#App limit

Creating a project past your plan's app count opens a dialog, "You have used your plan builds", with Back to my apps and See plans. Deleting an app frees the slot.

#The daily limit

A quarter of the month's allowance is the most one day can spend, and never less than 50 tokens. It exists so one runaway session cannot use the whole month. When it trips, the chat shows "Daily brake: N tokens today, a quarter of your month, so one session can't spend it all. It lifts at midnight UTC; a top-up bypasses it." Purchased tokens are not braked.

Other refusals:

• At 80% of the month a warning bar appears above the chat.
• "You've used this month's N tokens on the plan plan. Top up to keep going, or wait for the reset."
• "You're out of tokens." when there is no allowance and no balance.
• "Builds are paused right now while we look at something." is on Ripping's side; your tokens are untouched.

Connecting your own Anthropic key on the Connections page makes turns that use it cost no tokens.

#When a plan ends

Live apps stay online for 14 days at the old plan's limits, then pause until you renew. Data, files and domains are kept for 90 days. Renewing brings apps back as they were.

#The Billing page

Billing (linked from Settings) shows:

• This month: a bar of tokens used against the allowance plus balance, and the reset date.
• The three tiers, with your current one marked, and the Singularity size selector.
• Receipts: every invoice with a link to view it, and Cards and billing details in Stripe for the card on file.

Only the account owner can change the plan. Payment goes through Stripe; after checkout the page says "Payment received. Your plan updates in a few seconds."