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, serving your feeds, Slack pushes, and webhooks all cost nothing to set up. 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
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 — no free-tier theater, no abuse problem, no incentive to make paid users worse. Your first $10 gets you ~6,250 emails and never expires. Pay only for what you send.

What's actually free?

Making feeds, turning pages into RSS, polling sources, serving your Atom/JSON feeds, Slack and Discord pushes, and JSON webhooks. Only sends, LLM work, and source discovery 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.