Plans and usage
How the optional NALA plan works, what it does not change, and why NALA stays free without one.
WARNING
There are no paid plans today, and nothing on this page is purchasable. This section documents a plan that is built but not launched. It is published in advance so the terms can be read before anything is for sale. Everything described here is optional; none of it changes the application you have now.
NALA is free. It runs on your machine, works with your own provider API keys or with local models, and does not require an account. That is the whole product, not a trial of it.
The optional plan adds one thing: model access routed through NALA, so you can use many models without holding a separate subscription with each provider.
What a plan does not change
Worth stating first, because it is the part people reasonably worry about:
- The application stays free, with every feature it has today.
- Your own API keys keep working, and those requests go straight from your machine to the provider. They never touch our servers. See Provider accounts and keys.
- Local models keep working, with no account and no network.
- Third-party agent harnesses keep working. NALA launches the vendor's own CLI, which authenticates itself. We do not touch those credentials.
- A gateway outage does not affect any of the above. If our servers are down, only NALA-provided model access stops.
A NALA plan does not give you access to another company's subscription. If you pay for Claude or ChatGPT, those agreements are yours and stay yours.
How the plan works
| Weekly allowance | Released every 7 days. Does not roll over. |
| Purchased credits | Bought separately. Do not expire. Used after the allowance. |
| Platform fee | A percentage of a purchase, shown separately at checkout. |
| Billing | Monthly, cancel any time, access until the period you paid for ends. |
The allowance is the part most worth understanding before you decide, so it has its own page.
What we record
We record what a run cost: which model, how many tokens, how many credits.
We do not store your prompts, the model's output, or your file contents. They stream through the gateway and are not written down. This is checked by a test that fails if any billing table gains a column that could hold them.
Payment records are kept as long as tax law requires. If you delete your account, your usage history and devices are deleted and payment records are retained with your identity removed.
Card details are handled by our payment processor and never reach us.
Where to look
- Weekly allowance — how it resets, and why it does not roll over
- Credits — what a credit is, what the fee covers
- Checking your usage — in the app, on the web, and from the terminal
- When you run out — what stops, and what does not
The full terms are in the Credit and Subscription Terms.