PRICING

One balance. Pay for work, not seats.

Prepaid credits, $10 minimum top-up, one meter for everything. Making a feed is free — turning pages into RSS, filtering, polling, and serving your feeds cost nothing to set up, and chat and webhook pushes include 250 free deliveries a month. You pay only when specific work runs.

$1.60 per 1,000 credits

One email = one credit. Nothing per subscriber. No card to start.

Send an email 1 credit · $0.0016
LLM-filter an item ⅕ credit · $0.00032
Summarize an item 1 credit · $0.0016
Chat or webhook sink delivery (after 250 free/mo) 1 credit · $0.0016
Re-run source discovery 25 credits · $0.04
Everything else 0
WHAT WOULD MY NEWSLETTER COST?
2,500
8
20,000 emails/mo
≈ $32.00 / month
Top up & ship →
no subscriber tiers no monthly minimum feed-out never gated credits never expire
Worked example: a feed filtering ~40 new items a day ≈ 240 credits ≈ $0.38 / month. Add per-item summaries and it's ≈ $2.30. A blog emailing 20,000 subscribers monthly ≈ $32. Want an apples-to-apples comparison against Mailchimp, Substack and the rest? Run the numbers →

Questions you'd ask before paying

Why credits and not a subscription?

Monthly plans punish small lists, and tiers punish successful ones. emit charges $0.0016 per email actually delivered. Publish twice in January and ten times in February — your bill reflects exactly that. Credits don't expire.

Is there a free tier?

No plans or tiers — no free-tier theater, no incentive to make paid users worse. Verifying your email adds 625 starter credits (~$1), and every account gets 250 free chat and webhook deliveries a month. Your first $10 gets you ~6,250 emails and never expires. Pay only for what runs.

What's actually free?

Making feeds, turning pages into RSS, polling sources, serving your Atom/JSON feeds, account-event webhooks, and the first 250 Slack, Discord, Teams, Telegram, Google Chat, and JSON-sink deliveries each month (a digest counts as one; test sends are free). Emails, LLM work, source discovery, and deliveries past 250 are metered.

Do you handle bounces and unsubscribes?

Yes. Hard bounces and complaints suppress the address automatically; one-click unsubscribe is on every send. You send from your own verified domain — DKIM, SPF, DMARC included.

More technical questions — polling, webhooks, agents, data residency — are answered on the overview. If yours isn't there, will@heltonlabs.com — a human reads it.

Top up $10. Ship your first pipe.

No card to start. Credits never expire.