Start free

300,000 tokens the moment you connect a site, and 50,000 more every month. Most small sites never pay at all.

Get Started Free

No card. No signup form from the plugin — one click.

What “free” actually covers

300,000

tokens on signup — around 150 questions

50,000

added every month, automatically

If your site fields a handful of enquiries a week, the monthly top-up alone keeps you inside the free allowance indefinitely. Busier sites will want a plan.

Monthly plans

A fixed pool of tokens each month, refreshed on your billing date.

Most popular

Economy

$4/mo

2,000,000 tokens / month

Comfortable for a small business site with steady enquiry volume.

  • Standard response speed
  • Email support
Subscribe

Premium

$8/mo

4,000,000 tokens / month

For content-heavy sites and busier support volumes.

  • Priority response speed
  • Chat support
  • API access
Subscribe
Best value

Business

$24/mo

12,000,000 tokens / month

For large sites and agencies running several domains.

  • Priority response speed
  • Chat and email support
  • API access
Subscribe

Or just top up

No subscription. Buy once, use whenever. Top-ups stack on any plan and never expire.

$5

2,500,000 tokens

About a month of Economy.

Purchase

$10

5,000,000 tokens

Best value on a one-off pack.

Purchase

How tokens work

You are charged for the tokens a request actually uses — the passages retrieved from your site, the system prompt, the visitor’s question, and the reply.

Cost per call = input_tokens + output_tokens

$1 buys 500,000 tokens — the same on every plan and every top-up. Larger plans do not cost less per token; they simply save you topping up. Choose on volume, not on unit price.

A typical answered question lands under 2,000 tokens, so $1 covers roughly 250 of them. Retrieved context is usually the larger half, which is why well-structured content is cheaper to run than long unstructured pages.

Actual usage varies with prompt size, response length, the model you select, and features such as citations and embeddings.

Or bring your own key

The plugin is free. Use your own OpenAI, Claude or Gemini key and your provider bills you directly — no plan, no tokens, no proxy fees. You manage the provider account, and semantic search needs an OpenAI or Google key for embeddings.

You pay for AI service usage, not plugin software

Vamika, Iris AI, and Iris Theme Kit are GPLv2-or-later software. Buying tokens pays only for metered external AI API usage and hosted service usage. It does not restrict installing, modifying, or redistributing the theme or plugins.

The plugins are optional. AI features require a paid external service or, where supported, your own compatible API key.

Read the full licensing policy

Questions people ask first

How far does the free allowance go?+

A single answered question usually costs under 2,000 tokens — the visitor's question, the passages retrieved from your site, and the reply. So 300,000 covers roughly 150 questions, and the 50,000 added each month covers about 25 more. Your dashboard shows exactly what you're using.

What happens if I run out?+

The chat stops answering and shows your custom message. Top up or subscribe and it resumes immediately. Email alerts warn you before you reach zero, and the free monthly tokens arrive on the 1st regardless.

Do tokens expire?+

Top-up tokens never expire. Plan allowances refresh on your billing date rather than rolling over, so choose a plan on your typical month rather than your busiest.

Is indexing charged separately?+

Indexing generates an embedding for each passage of your content. There's no generated answer and no retrieved context, so it's far cheaper per call than answering a question — and you pay once rather than per visitor. On a site with thousands of pages the initial index is still a real one-off cost.

How many sites can one account cover?+

Up to 5 domains on the hosted service. Bring-your-own-key has no domain limit, since you're using your own provider account.

Token amounts follow the active pricing policy at the time of purchase.

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