Back to your allowance
On the same date each month your balance is raised to your plan's allowance. Spent 140 of 150? You're back at 150. It's a rate, not a savings account.
Pricing
Every plan carries a monthly allowance. On the same day each month your balance tops back up to it — so a quiet month doesn't bank credits for a busy one, and a busy month never leaves you stranded for long.
Prices in USD. Every plan writes with the same engine and exports the same files; what changes is how many credits land each month, how long a piece the plan will let you ask for, and how long your scores stay open. How many pieces a month that is depends entirely on how long and how thickly scored they are — the exact cost is on screen before anything is written. Change or cancel any time.
How the allowance works
On the same date each month your balance is raised to your plan's allowance. Spent 140 of 150? You're back at 150. It's a rate, not a savings account.
While you're subscribed, a balance above your allowance is never reduced — you can lose momentum, never money. The one exception is the day a cancelled subscription actually ends, which is when the account returns to Free.
An upgrade is usable the moment you switch, not on your next billing date. A downgrade leaves your balance alone and applies from the next refresh. Cancelling keeps everything until the period you paid for runs out.
What a credit buys
A piece is written in passes, and a pass is charged as it runs. There is one engine and one price for each pass, the same on every plan — your plan decides how many passes a month you get, not what one costs.
| Pass | Credits |
|---|---|
| Plan the pieceForm, keys, tempi, ensemble — and the quote for the rest | 1 |
| Write the themesThe material the whole piece is built from | 1 |
| Each sectionMelody and countermelody over a rendered accompaniment | 2 |
| Phrase and mark upThe expression pass: dynamics and articulation, once over the finished piece | 3 |
| A chat turnA question, or a change that needs no new notes | 1 |
| A chat turn that writes musicRewrite a section, add a voice, change key — the turn, plus 4 for each thing it writes | 5 |
| A six-section piece1 to plan, 1 for the themes, 12 for the sections, 3 to mark up | 17 |
No bill shock
Planning a piece is its own pass and costs a single credit, so by the time the sections start the cost of everything after it is already known — six sections, eight voices, 16 credits — and it's on screen before a note is written. Nothing is charged until you say go, and any pass that fails puts its credits straight back.
Questions
They don't roll over. On the same day each month your balance is topped back up to your plan's allowance, so a quiet month doesn't bank credits for a busy one.
It tops up, never down. If you're above your allowance — you bought extra, or you just downgraded — nothing is taken away.
Everything that doesn't call a model keeps working: your scores stay readable, playable and exportable. Writing pauses until your allowance refreshes, or until you upgrade — and an upgrade is usable immediately, so you're not waiting on a billing date.
It means the plan stops being the thing that stops you. Free and Sketch cap how long a piece you can ask for; Studio and Studio Pro don't.
The engine keeps its own ceilings on bars and sections, and those don't go away. A piece is also written a section at a time, so a long one costs you minutes as well as credits. What the top two plans drop is the limit we put on your plan, not the limit the writing itself has.
Thirty days from the day you write them. After that a piece stays in your library — nothing is deleted — but it locks, and you can't open it again until you're on a paid plan.
So on Free, export what you want to keep while the window is open. MusicXML, MIDI and ABC cost nothing and the files don't depend on us afterwards. On any paid plan there's no window at all.
Any time, from your account. Nothing changes straight away: you keep your plan and every credit on it until the end of the period you have already paid for. On that date the account returns to Free and the balance goes with it.
Your projects and scores stay yours either way — exported files never stop working, and nothing you have already downloaded depends on us.
The credits for the pass that failed go back automatically, and the sections already written stay on screen — the run picks up from there rather than starting over. You never have to ask for the refund.
One thing to know: a run lives in the browser tab. Closing it while a piece is being written ends the run, and the credits for passes already finished are not returned — they bought music. Keep the tab open until it lands.
You do. Everything you generate is yours to perform, publish, record and sell, with no royalty and no attribution requirement. We claim no rights in your scores and don't train on your projects.
Not as a self-serve plan yet. Arranging for the ensemble actually in the room is the job this is best at, so if you teach and the plans above don't fit your department, write to us and we'll work something out.