Plans

What each plan includes and which models it unlocks.

9th Protocol is in private beta. These numbers are being calibrated against real usage and may change before general availability.

The ladder

	Free	Core	Pro	Max
Price	-	$15/mo	$49/mo	$149/mo
Credits / month	30 once	900	3,500	9,500
5-hour window	30	120	350	850
Weekly	30	350	1,100	3,000
Economy models	✓	✓	✓	✓
Standard models	-	✓	✓	✓
Premium models	-	,	packs	✓

Free is a one-time 30-credit trial on economy models, enough for two or three real tasks.

Core runs economy models full-time with Sonnet 5 available and metered.

Pro is the same access with roughly 4× the budget, plus pay-as-you-go packs for premium models.

Max includes Kimi K3, Opus 4.8, and Fable 5 in the monthly pool, with the highest windows.

See Models for what’s in each tier.

BYOK

$10/mo flat with your own OpenRouter key. No credits, no plan locks, no metering you pay OpenRouter directly and we never see the key. See Authentication.

Limits

Two rolling windows apply at once:

• 5-hour window: the session budget, the one you’ll actually feel
• Weekly: a rolling 7-day ceiling

Hitting either pauses work until it rolls off, or until you buy a reset.

Choosing

Which plan fits my usage?

Most work routes to economy models under Auto, where credits go a long way. Core suits a few focused sessions a week; Pro suits daily use; Max suits all-day use or frequent frontier-model work.

Why do credits drain fast on strong models?

Because 1 credit = $0.01 of *raw* model cost. A heavy session costs about$0.51 on GLM 4.7 Flash and about $11.80 on Sonnet 5, a ~23× spread. That’s the entire reason Auto exists. See Credits.

What happens when I run out?

9p tells you which limit you hit and when it resets, and offers a reset purchase where your plan allows one.