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 can use every composer and every style, 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 on how long they are and which composer writes them — every price is on screen before anything is spent. Change or cancel any time.
Composers and styles
Every composer is on every plan. The composer multiplies the price of each pass — you see the total for your brief before anything is spent.
Leipzig
×1 · the base price
Quick, and what most pieces want.
13 credits · about 3 min
Leipzig Thought
×4 the base price
The same composer, thinking longer — and reviewing every section it writes.
52 credits · about 15 min
Vienna
×10 the base price
Our strongest composer, thinking hard at every step.
130 credits · about 15 min
Prices for a typical four-section piece. The style never changes the price.
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. Each pass has one price with Leipzig, the same on every plan; Leipzig Thought is four times it and Vienna ten. Your plan decides how many credits a month you get, not what a pass costs.
| Pass | Leipzig | Leipzig Thought | Vienna |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan the pieceForm, keys, tempi, ensemble — and the exact price of the rest | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Write the themesThe material the whole piece is built from | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Each sectionMelody and countermelody over a rendered accompaniment; reviewed by Leipzig Thought and Vienna | 2 | 8 | 20 |
| Phrase and mark upThe expression pass: dynamics and articulation, once over the finished piece | 3 | 12 | 30 |
| A chat turnA question, or a change that needs no new notes — the same with every composer | 1 | ||
| A chat turn that writes musicRewrite a passage, add bars, write a new voice — the turn, plus a section’s price for every 12 bars it writes | 3 | 9 | 21 |
| A six-section piece1 to plan, 1 for the themes, 12 for the sections, 3 to mark up — times the composer | 17 | 68 | 170 |
No bill shock
Before a credit moves, Larkato prices your brief with every composer and you pick one. Planning then fixes the exact size of the piece; if it comes out bigger than the estimate you chose, the run stops and asks again before the sections start. 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.
Closing the tab pauses a piece rather than losing it: everything already written is kept, and the next time you open Larkato (within a day) it offers to carry on from the next unwritten section, with the composer you chose. Passes already finished are not charged again.
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.