> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: /docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Billing

> What Brigade costs, what Brigade Cloud adds, and how to subscribe, manage or cancel it.

Brigade is free on your own computers. **Brigade Cloud** adds a cloud computer for your workspace, for \$99 a month
per workspace (€99 in the euro zone). There is one subscription per workspace, paid through Stripe.

## Free or Brigade Cloud

| | Free | Brigade Cloud |
| - | - | - |
| **Price** | Free | \$99 a month per workspace (€99 in the euro zone) |
| **Where teammates run** | Your own Mac or Linux machine | Brigade's cloud computer, and your own machines |
| **When teammates work** | While your computer is on and awake | All the time, even when your laptop is closed |
| **AI usage** | Your Claude or ChatGPT plan | Your Claude or ChatGPT plan |

Brigade Cloud includes:

* Teammates that keep working when your computer is asleep or off.
* Brigade's cloud computer, shared by the workspace, up to 8 turns at once.
* No charge for AI usage: teammates still run on each member's own Claude or ChatGPT plan.

Brigade never bills you for AI usage, on either option. See [Your computer or Brigade Cloud](/docs/computers.md) for what
each computer can do.

## Subscribe

Only owners and admins can subscribe or change the plan. Other members see the plan but no buttons.

**1. Open Billing**

Go to **Settings → Billing** and choose **Subscribe**. In onboarding, the same thing is **Get
Brigade Cloud**.

**2. Pay in Stripe Checkout**

Checkout shows the price in your currency and accepts promotion codes and a tax ID.

**3. Sign in the cloud computer**

Back in Brigade, the cloud computer appears in **Settings → Computers** within a few minutes.
Sign it in to your Claude or ChatGPT account there.

The workspace is billed, not the person who pays: if the admin who subscribed leaves, the plan stays with the
workspace.

## Manage your plan

**Settings → Billing** shows the plan's state, such as **Renews on** a date or **Ends on** a date. Choose
**Manage billing** to open Stripe's billing portal, where you can:

* update your card
* read and download invoices
* cancel the plan

After the plan has ended, **Invoices** still opens the portal, and **Subscribe again** starts a new plan.

## When a payment fails

The plan shows **Payment failed: update your card to keep it**. While Stripe retries the payment, your workspace
keeps the cloud computer. Update your card in **Manage billing**. If the payment still
fails and the plan ends, the cloud computer stops, as after a cancellation.

## Cancel

Cancel in **Manage billing**. The plan runs until the end of the period you paid for, then ends. Then:

* **The cloud computer stops** and keeps its disk. It doesn't start again until the workspace subscribes again.
* **Your workspace stays**: its threads, library, memory and members. Teammates keep working for free on your own
  computers. To move a thread there, see [Move a thread between computers](/docs/computers.md#move-a-thread-between-computers).

> [!NOTE]
>
> You can't delete a workspace, or your account, while the workspace has Brigade Cloud. Cancel it
> first, and delete once the plan has ended.

## Included by Brigade

Some workspaces get Brigade Cloud from the Brigade team at no charge. Their plan shows **Included by Brigade**, with
nothing to manage and no **Manage billing** button.

## Self-hosted Brigade

On a Brigade server you run yourself without Stripe set up, billing is off: **Settings → Billing** says so, and the
cloud computer, when the server has one, is included. See [Self-hosting](/docs/self-hosting.md).


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