Free
$0 /mo
20 credits / month
plus 100 to start, which never expire
- •Not a trial
- •No card required
- •Stops when the allowance is gone
Pricing
Every plan includes the whole product. The tiers differ in how much you can ask for, measured in credits. A credit is one step the assistant takes toward your request: reading your session, writing a clip, checking the result. A typical request takes two or three.
Starter
$19 /mo
150 credits / month
$0.13 a credit
- •Everything in Free
- •No hard stop when you go over
- •Extra credits at $0.15 each
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Studio
$45 /mo
400 credits / month
$0.11 a credit
- •Everything in Starter
- •Extra credits at $0.15 each
- •Priority support
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Pricing and limits may change as we calibrate. Existing subscribers keep their current tier through the active billing cycle.
FAQ
Credits and billing
- What is a credit?
- A credit is one step the assistant takes toward your request. A short question takes one. A request that needs several steps, like writing a drum pattern and then adjusting its groove, spends a credit per step, so a single message can cost more than one.
- Why did one message cost several credits?
- Because the assistant worked through it in several steps, and every step costs a credit. Reading your session, writing the clip, then checking the result is three steps, so three credits. You can see the steps for any message by expanding it in the chat.
- Does a Splice download cost Dawbrain credits?
- The search and the download are ordinary steps, so they cost a credit each like any other step. The sample itself is paid for with your Splice credits, on your Splice plan, and Dawbrain adds nothing on top.
- What happens when I run out?
- On the free plan you get a warning as you approach your allowance and a hard stop when you reach it. On a paid plan there is no hard stop. You keep working, and credits beyond your monthly allowance are billed at $0.15 each on your next invoice.
- Do the free credits expire?
- The monthly 20 reset on the first of each month and do not roll over. The 100 you start with have no clock on them at all: they sit there until you spend them, however many months that takes. Your monthly allowance is always spent first, so the starting credits are the last thing to go.
- When am I charged?
- At the end of each billing period, not at checkout. The order total shows $0.00 today because the monthly fee and any extra credits are billed together on one invoice when the period ends. The free plan needs no card at all.
- Can I cancel anytime?
- Yes. Paid subscriptions cancel at the end of the current billing period. See our refund policy for the full terms.
Product
- Which DAWs are supported?
- Ableton Live 12 on macOS and Windows, Intro, Standard, and Suite. Live 11 and other DAWs are not supported.
- Is there an AI subscription on top of this?
- No. Inference is included in every tier, so there is no API key to paste and no separate AI plan to hold on the side. What you pay Dawbrain is the whole cost.
Privacy
- Is my session data private?
- Session context is sent to Anthropic for each request to generate the response. It isn't used to train AI models; Anthropic's API terms forbid that by default. See our privacy policy for full details.
- Do you train on my conversations?
- No. Not us, and not Anthropic under our API plan.