Section 5.3: Billing, Plans and AI Usage

Every ABRAM plan includes AI usage. Usage belongs to your organization, so everyone on the team draws from one shared amount. If you work alone, your personal workspace is your organization.

You manage your plan, card, invoices and AI usage in Settings > Billing.

1. What counts toward AI usage

How much usage an action takes depends on the work involved, such as the length of the text and the size of the task, so it varies from one request to the next.

AI features that count toward usage include:

• Brief analysis: reading a project brief into scope, roles and requirements.
• Script breakdown: reading a screenplay into scenes and elements.
• ABRAM assistant: questions and actions in chat.
• Read call: reading a call transcript on a project's Calls tab, which is on Studio and above.
• Insights in Team management planning.

Auto-fill roles and deliverable Suggest are rule-based and do not count toward AI usage.

2. AI usage by plan

Included usage resets every month. On Pro and Studio, each seat you add raises your organization's included usage. Storage grows with seats too.

Trials

When you set up ABRAM for a team, your company starts a 7-day Studio trial with AI included for the whole organization. No card is needed. If you set up ABRAM for yourself, you start on Free with a starter amount of ABRAM AI, good for 30 days.

While a trial runs, a banner on the Billing page reads "Your [plan] trial ends [date]. Add payment to keep [plan]." Click Add payment to keep the plan when the trial ends.

3. Extra usage

Need more? Paid plans can turn on extra usage, billed monthly, with a monthly limit you set.

1. Included usage is drawn first and resets every month.
2. Extra usage starts once the included usage for the month is spent. It is available on Pro, Studio and SMB / Enterprise with a live subscription. An owner or admin switches on Extra usage in Settings > Billing, then sets the monthly limit and agrees to the Terms of Use to confirm. It is billed monthly. On a yearly plan it runs on a separate monthly usage subscription.
3. The monthly limit is set by an owner or admin in Settings > Billing. Extra usage stops when it reaches the limit, and the limit can be changed at any time.

Free and trial workspaces move up a plan for more AI usage.

4. Seeing your usage

Owners and admins see Usage in Settings > Billing. Included usage shows how much of this month's AI usage is used and when it resets, next to the Storage meter. With extra usage on, Extra usage this month shows what it has cost against the Monthly limit. Recent AI usage lists each use with its date, feature and a size of Small, Medium or Large. Extra usage entries show their dollar amount. Members see only the plans on that page.

When usage runs out

When the included usage is spent and extra usage is off or at its monthly limit, AI features pause until the usage resets. ABRAM points an owner or admin to Settings > Billing to turn on extra usage, raise the limit or change plans, and tells a member to ask an admin. Everything that does not use AI keeps working.

5. What each plan includes

Some features depend on your plan, whatever your AI usage. Extra usage does not open a plan feature. Your own calendar and bookings are on every plan.

Paid yearly, Pro is $18 a seat a month and Studio is $54. Neither plan has a seat minimum.

Storage is one pool for the whole organization. On Pro and Studio it grows with every seat. Pro and above can add storage in 1 TB packages at $25 a TB a month, up to 50 TB: 1 TB $25, 5 TB $125, 10 TB $250 a month. More than 50 TB is an Enterprise plan. See each plan's current storage at abram.network/pricing and what counts toward it in Section 6.9: Storage and Files.

• Free: one production (schedule, deliverables, call sheets and chat), the stripboard fully editable, call sheets with an ABRAM watermark, up to 3 invoices a month, and up to 5 budget lines and 5 expenses.
• Pro: unlimited productions, clean call sheets sent straight to crew, quotes, unlimited invoices, budget alerts, time tracking, 80 resource items, ten client portals, and Slack.
• Studio: timecard approval, capacity planning, crew conflict checks, crew matchmaking, the Executive Overview, client intake forms, financial export and unlimited client portals.
• SMB / Enterprise: uncapped seats and custom roles, single sign-on and audit logs, barcode scanning, storage and AI usage set by your contract, and custom builds made with your team.

Each plan also sets how many people from outside your organization can join a production. See Section 4.8: Crew Access and Outside Crew Limits.

The Free production limit

Free includes one production in total, counting archived ones. A new account's starter project is that production. Archiving a production keeps its place. Deleting it frees the place.

Locked features

Screens your plan does not include are hidden from the sidebar, and a locked button names the plan that opens it. To see everything side by side, open Settings > Billing and scroll to Compare plans, under the plan cards.

6. Changing your plan

Owners and admins change plans from Settings > Billing. The plan cards sit on that page, under Plan. The Monthly and Yearly switch at the top sets the billing interval.

1. Set the number of seats on the card with the minus and plus buttons.
2. Click Move to [plan]. On a phone, tap Change plan to see the cards.
3. A confirmation shows the Plan, Seats, Billing (Monthly or Yearly) and what is Due today, then what you pay from the next billing date.
4. Click Continue to checkout to pay in Stripe Checkout, or Confirm change if a card is already on file.

A change that costs less takes effect when the current billing period ends, and the confirmation says when. To change only the seat count, use Seats in the Plan section. The SMB / Enterprise card shows Talk to us. Members who are not owners or admins see "Ask an owner or admin to change the plan."

For your card, invoices and cancelling, see Section 5.4: Billing and Payments.