Onplana Maker Pricing: How the Credit Wallet Works

Most software either charges per seat whether you touch it or not, or hides its AI costs behind a "fair use" clause nobody can price in advance. Onplana Maker does neither: you build an app by describing it, and the only thing that costs anything is the AI work the build actually does.

The direct answer: Onplana Maker pricing runs on one prepaid credit wallet, not a subscription of its own. Every Onplana plan, including Free, comes with included AI credit at no extra cost, and Free specifically allows up to 25 builds a day with no credit card required. Each build or chat-based edit draws only the tokens it actually uses from that wallet, top-ups start at $5, and purchased credit is valid for 90 days from purchase.

TL;DR

Onplana Maker has no separate subscription. One AI credit wallet, shared with the rest of your Onplana plan, pays for builds, chat-based edits, and hosting. Free includes a starting credit balance and up to 25 builds a day; Starter and above drop the daily cap but still meter by credit. Top up from $5 anytime purchased credit expires 90 days after purchase, while referral and reward credit never expires, and there is no auto-recharge, so the wallet simply stops rather than surprising you with a bill.

How the Maker Credit Wallet Actually Works

One wallet pays for three things: building the app, chatting with the agent to refine it, and hosting it once it is live. There is no separate line item for any of the three. The diagram below shows the same wallet feeding all three, which is the detail that trips people up coming from tools that price building, editing, and hosting as three separate products.

The agent doing the building runs on the same AI infrastructure as the rest of Onplana: Claude and Azure OpenAI, managed and failed over automatically by Onplana rather than something you configure. How Claude works inside Onplana covers that provider layer in more depth if you want to know what is actually doing the work your credit pays for.

What Free Actually Includes

The Free plan starts with an included AI credit balance and up to 25 builds a day, no credit card required. That daily count resets every day regardless of how much of the credit balance is left, so a Free account genuinely gets 25 attempts at building or meaningfully editing an app before the clock, not the wallet, becomes the limit. Publishing is included too: a Free-plan app carries a small "Made with Onplana" badge, and any paid plan removes it. The full build-limit and credit reference lives in the Maker docs if you want the underlying detail rather than the summary here.

Onplana Maker Pricing by Plan

The daily build cap only exists on Free. Every other plan meters by credit balance instead, and the included AI bonus scales with plan and seat count, which is also what funds a heavier building habit without constantly topping up.

Plan	Monthly per seat	Daily build cap	Live published apps	AI credit bonus (one-time, per seat)
Free	$0	25/day	1	100K tokens
Starter	$7	Unlimited*	3	500K tokens
Pro	$12	Unlimited*	10	1M tokens
Business	$20	Unlimited*	25	1.5M tokens
Enterprise	$29	Unlimited*	100	2.5M tokens

*Unlimited means no daily build count, not unmetered tokens: every build still draws from the plan's included AI credit or a top-up.

What Happens When the Wallet Runs Out

Nothing dramatic, and nothing that costs you money without asking first. When the balance hits zero, Maker stops building and tells you so instead of charging a card automatically; there is no default auto-recharge. From there you have two options: wait for the next included-credit refresh that comes with your plan, or top up the wallet from $5 and keep going immediately. A build that runs out of credit mid-way does not lose progress. It stops at the last completed step, and resuming after a top-up picks up from there rather than starting over.

Do Maker Credits Expire?

Purchased top-up credit is valid for 90 days from the date you buy it, the same rule that governs purchased AI credit everywhere else on Onplana, and it is spent before your plan's included balance so a top-up bought for an active build gets used first. Credit earned through referrals or reward programs does not expire. The practical effect: a team building actively rarely sees a top-up go stale, because it is first in line to be spent; the expiry mostly matters if you buy a large top-up and then stop building for months.

Is This Actually Cheaper Than a Per-Seat App Builder?

It depends entirely on how much you build, which is the honest answer usage-based pricing always gives. A team that builds one internal tool a quarter pays close to nothing beyond its existing Onplana seat, since Free's included balance and 25-build daily cap absorb an occasional project comfortably. A team running Maker as its primary way to ship internal tools will draw down the included balance faster and top up more often, in which case the comparison that matters is against what a developer's hour costs, not against a flat app-builder subscription. Either way, the amount you pay tracks the amount you build rather than a seat count that stays the same whether you use it or not.

Every Maker app is also a full Onplana project from the moment it exists, with a plan, an issue log, and a files area underneath the chat window. Building an internal tool with AI covers that build-refine-ship loop end to end if the pricing model is what you needed settled first. What's new on Onplana tracks feature and limit changes as they ship, since a usage-based product is exactly the kind where a number worth checking at draft time can move, and the wider Onplana blog covers the rest of the AI feature set Maker sits alongside.

The fastest way to see what a real build costs against your own included balance is to try one. Start building on Onplana Maker costs nothing to try, with no credit card and up to 25 builds a day on the free plan.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Onplana Maker cost?

Nothing to start. Every plan, including Free, includes AI credit and up to 25 builds a day with no credit card required; a build draws only the tokens it actually uses, and you top up from $5 whenever the included balance runs low.

Can the AI agent run up an unexpectedly large bill while building?

No, because there is no bill to run up beyond what you have already loaded. Maker spends from a prepaid wallet, not a metered invoice, so a long build session draws the balance down and stops asking for more once it hits zero rather than charging you afterward.

What happens to a build if credit runs out partway through?

The build stops and the app stays exactly as far along as the last successful step; nothing is lost or rolled back. Top up from $5 and pick the same conversation back up, or wait for your plan's next included-credit refresh if you are between top-ups.

Do purchased Maker credits expire?

Yes, purchased top-up credit is valid for 90 days from purchase, the same expiry that governs AI credit everywhere else on Onplana. It is spent before your plan's included balance, and credit earned from referrals or rewards does not expire at all, so a top-up made for an active project rarely goes stale.

Can I cap spending or turn Maker off before I lose control of the wallet?

Yes. There is no auto-recharge by default, so the wallet simply stops working when it hits zero rather than drawing more money without asking. You decide when, and whether, to add another $5.

Do paid plans get unlimited builds?

Starter and above remove the 25-build daily cap entirely, though every build still draws AI tokens from the plan's included credit or a top-up. Free is the only tier with a fixed daily count; every other plan is capped by credit balance, not by a clock.

Is Maker a separate product with its own subscription?

No. Maker sits inside your existing Onplana plan and pricing; there is no separate app-builder subscription to buy. Every Maker app is also a real Onplana project underneath, so a weekend build that turns into a team tool has nothing to migrate later.