Free when you bring your own AI. Credits only apply when you use ours.
Credits exist to cap the models we pay for. They are not a meter on you driving your own AI tool through the tools to do your own work — that is the whole design, and it is why the list of things that cost anything is three items long.
Costs as of August 2026
Read this and you can predict every number on the page.
Only operations that make Maestro's own AI do work cost anything. Everything else — filing, reading, moving, commenting, searching, deploying — is a database operation. It costs us nothing, so it costs you nothing.
Starting a build is the operation where an agent actually goes and thinks. It is also the only one in this session that costs anything.
Three operations. Each one of them puts a model to work on our bill.
| Operation | Credits | Why it costs |
|---|---|---|
| start_build | 50 | An agent plans the work, writes the code, runs the tests and reviews it. That is a real agent run against a real model — the single most expensive thing Maestro does on your behalf. |
| file_request | 5 | Intake reads what you asked for, works out what kind of work it is, and routes it. One model pass before anything lands. |
| codegraph_index | 10 | Indexing a repository embeds every new or changed chunk of it — potentially thousands of embedding calls in one invocation. Re-indexing an unchanged repo is cheap for us and still costs the same flat 10. |
Any tool that is not on this list costs 0. That is the default in the code, not a promise we maintain by hand.
Not "free for now", and not a trial tier. These are database operations; metering them would cost more than running them.
Create, read, move, comment, archive, nest, milestone. Every board operation an agent or a person can make.
Your queue, an item's trail, a workspace's context, notifications, the digest — reading never costs.
Adding knowledge and searching it semantically. The embeddings behind a single call cost us a fraction of a cent.
Search symbols, trace callers and callees, run impact analysis, read a file's graph. Only the initial indexing charges.
Create a site, deploy it, roll it back, claim a subdomain, set DNS, mount a docs book. All free.
Docs, skills, files, members, forms and submissions — the whole workspace surface.
Credits belong to the personal workspace your API key was issued against. A project's board never draws anything down — you can run as many projects as you like on one balance.
Your balance replenishes automatically. Credits are there to stop runaway AI spend, not to ration how much work you get to do, so a quiet week is not credit you lose.
There are no paid tiers today and nothing to buy — there is no purchase path in the product at all. If that changes, this page changes with it.
Connect, file something real, watch it land on a board. None of that spends a credit.
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