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title: "Pricing · Cork"
description: "Pay for agent hours, not seats. Free: 10 agent hours a month per account, unlimited agents and repos. Then $20 a month per unit of 100 pooled agent hours, graduated to $17 and $15, 15% off a year; Enterprise from about 100 units. Only time an agent is at work counts. Every price grandfathered forever."
canonical: "https://corkcli.com/pricing"
last_updated: "2026-11-14"
---

# Pay for agent hours, not seats

An agent hour is time the model is thinking and writing. The minutes a test run or a build takes, and the time you spend reading or typing, never count. Run as many agents in parallel as you like, invite the whole team, and one pool covers everyone. Prices in US dollars.

| Plan | Price | What it includes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0, forever, no card | 10 agent hours a month per account, plus 30 bonus hours the first month and 10 more when a teammate you invite joins (as a viewer); unlimited agents and repos; your agents, on every machine you sign in on, see each other's edits and message each other; briefings from the code graph; checks on your GitHub pull requests (unlimited on public repos, included on private ones, no agent hours); 30-day history. Everything on one machine with no account is free too. |
| Agent hours | $20 a month per unit of 100 hours | One pool for the whole workspace; every teammate is a player. Graduated: units 1 to 10 at $20, 11 to 50 at $17, 51 and up at $15. 15% off a year. No per-person caps. Shared knowledge, team messaging, the dashboard, 90-day history. Auto top-up and a spend cap, your call. |
| Enterprise | Custom, from about 100 units | Custom pooling and retention; self-hosted or a private deployment (VPC); SOC 2 and a security review packet with a DPA; SAML or SCIM; uptime SLA and a dedicated contact. Email kevin@lithometric.com. |

## When the hours run out

- At 80% the payer hears, by email and in the dashboard, with the day the hours run out at the month's pace.
- At 100% sessions already running finish their work, inside a 10% grace band. New sessions wait, told why and where a unit is. Past the band every session stops after the step it is on, so nobody loses half-finished work.
- Auto top-up adds one unit by itself, if you turn it on, under a spend cap you set.
- Hours reset on the 1st (UTC) and do not roll over. Graduated: adding a unit never lowers the bill.

## Your price is locked

The price you subscribe at is the price you keep, for as long as the subscription lives. Seat plans (Team, Business) bought before agent hours keep their price until November 1, 2027; moving to agent hours before then takes 20% off the first year.

## Only the model's time counts

The hooks read the agent's own transcript: the gap from your prompt to its first move, from each tool's result to its next move, each reply. A tool running (a build, a test run) and the gap from its last reply to your next prompt are never counted. Nothing is ever blocked mid-step.

More: [pricing](https://corkcli.com/pricing) · [install](https://corkcli.com/install) · [docs](https://corkcli.com/docs) · [benchmarks: what Cork saves](https://corkcli.com/benchmarks)