Credits and plans

vibld bills for model spend, which is what costs money to run.

The plans

Each plan has two numbers, and they are different things: the price the subscription charges, and the model spend it includes every month.

• Free: no charge. Includes $1.00 of model spend per month once a card is saved, and $0.20 once to try it without one.
• Build: $19 a month, or $190 a year. Includes $14.00 of model spend per month.
• Ship: $49 a month, or $490 a year. Includes $40.00 of model spend per month.

Prices are in US dollars. A yearly plan includes the same model spend every month as the monthly one.

A Free account builds, chats and sketches with GPT-6 Luna only; the paid plans unlock the other models. It can have three active projects at once (archived ones do not count), and Build and Ship have no limit.

An account with no active subscription is Free. The monthly allowance resets on the UTC calendar month, for everyone, rather than on each subscription’s own anniversary, so a first month can be shorter than thirty days.

A Free account starts with a $0.20 trial, about two builds, which does not reset. Saving a card moves it to the $1.00 a month: Plan and usage in the settings menu, and a note above the composer, offer it with an Add a card button, which opens a Stripe page that saves the card and charges nothing. A card counts for the first account that saves it, and an account that has paid for a plan or a top-up already has one on file.

The one-time $1.00 welcome credit is no longer offered, from 7 October 2026. An account that received it keeps it, separate from the monthly allowance, until it expires twelve months after it was granted.

Top-up credit

A top-up costs $10 and adds $8.00 of model spend. Top-ups are one-time purchases and are not tied to a month. They are tried whenever what is left of the monthly allowance cannot hold a run’s reservation. A run is drawn from one or the other, never from both at once. Top-up credit is available on any tier, Free included, and expires twelve months after purchase.

Auto-reload and Start Build

Both are off until you turn them on, under Plan and usage in the settings menu, and both charge your saved card without you there.

• Auto-reload buys the $10 top-up whenever less than $1 of model spend is left, up to a monthly cap you choose between $10 and $100 ($30 unless you change it). A declined charge turns it off.
• Start Build when Free runs out moves a Free account to the Build plan, once, when less than $1 is left. From then on it is an ordinary Build subscription you can cancel.

With both on, a Free account starts Build first, and no top-up is bought while it does.

How a run is priced

A run reserves its worst case up front, so no run starts that could not be paid for, and once it finishes you are charged what it actually cost. A long generation can briefly look more expensive than it turns out to be.

Prices follow the model that runs. A cheaper model reserves less and costs less. Beside Send, the composer shows what a build on the chosen model is expected to cost, from the last 30 days of builds on it; a model with too few builds shows the most a build can cost, as “Up to”. A project’s first build also includes the most its draft can cost. Chat replies and the three sketches are priced the same way; the sketches cost about a tenth of a build.

When you cannot fund a build’s full reservation, it is not refused outright: it is reserved what you have left and runs with a smaller budget, and if it runs out it stops and names the file it reached. Only below the least a build can run on is it refused.

A build you cancel is charged for the steps it finished, plus the step that was running at the most it could have cost, and never more than it reserved. A build keeps running if you close the page.

The order things are spent in

Three ceilings apply to every run, in this order:

1. A deployment-wide daily ceiling, across all accounts. It stops one compromised account spending the month, and is invisible in normal use. Free runs also share their own part of it, so free use takes at most that part and the rest stays for paying accounts. Runs paid from top-up credit do not count as free use.
2. Your monthly tier allowance.
3. Your top-up credit, when the allowance cannot hold the run.

When a run is refused for spend, the reason names which ceiling it hit. For your own, it says how much is left and how much the run needs set aside. The readout under Plan and usage in the settings menu is a read-only mirror of the same figures the gate uses.

Changing or canceling

Upgrading starts a Stripe Checkout session. Once you have a Stripe customer record, Manage billing appears under Plan and usage in the settings menu and opens Stripe’s own billing portal, where cards and invoices live.

Cancel plan, in the same place, opens Stripe’s page for canceling. A monthly plan is offered 50% off one month, once, before it cancels; a yearly plan is offered nothing.

Referrals

Your link is under Refer a friend in the settings menu, in the form vibld.com/?ref=<code>. When a friend signs up with it and makes their first payment, you each get $5.00 of build credit, for up to 25 friends.

Refunds are covered by the Refund Policy.