Teams & Business
Shared credits, one invoice, and invite links for your team.
Mel Business is a team plan at $50 a seat a month: the whole team shares one pool of credits on one invoice, with owner, admin and member roles. The owner (or an admin) invites people with a link and chooses how many seats to pay for. You set it up in the Mel app, under Settings ▸ Team.
What you get
| Business | |
|---|---|
| Price | $50 a seat a month, or $45 a seat a month billed yearly |
| Seats | 2 minimum |
| Credits | 1,500 per seat each month, in one pool the whole team shares |
| Billing | One subscription and one invoice for the team |
| Roles | An owner who pays, admins who help manage, and members |
| Support | Priority support |
Business uses US model providers only. A Business team's work goes only to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google (Gemini), xAI and Groq. Other providers, such as DeepSeek or Moonshot (Kimi), are not used for a Business team, even on a member's own key. A turn on a member's own key from one of these five providers uses no credits. See Models & pricing.
Start a team
- Open Settings ▸ Team and choose Start a Business team.
- Give the team a name (it's shown to everyone you invite), pick monthly or yearly billing and the number of seats.
- Click Continue to payment. Stripe checkout opens in your browser, and the team goes live when the payment completes.
Invite people
Under Invite team members, turn on By link and click Copy invite link. Anyone with the link can join until it expires, and joining takes a free seat. Reset links makes a new link and stops the old one.
To join, a member opens the link (it looks like openmel.dev/team/join#…), or pastes it under Join a team in Settings ▸ Team.
Seats and members
- Paid seats. Change the number of seats at any time, down to the minimum. Adding seats charges the prorated amount now; removing them credits your next invoice.
- Team members. The owner or an admin can remove a member, and their seat is free again.
- Leave the team. A member can leave from Settings ▸ Team. Their turns go back to their own plan from the next one.
- Team credits. Settings ▸ Team shows how much of the pool is left this month.
While you're on a team, your turns use the team's credits, and your own plan isn't used.
Roles
A Business team has three roles. Mel's server checks the role on every team change, so a button you don't have the right for can't do it.
| What you can do | Owner | Admin | Member |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use the team's credits | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Leave the team | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Invite people, reset invite links | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Change the number of seats | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Remove a member | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Share Drive and Library items, tab configs and agent profiles with the team | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Remove an admin, change someone's role | ✓ | ||
| Billing: payment, the billing portal, cancelling, buying add-on credits | ✓ | ||
| Delete the team's workspace | ✓ |
- The owner is the person who started the team. The subscription is theirs, and the team's credit pool is their account's. The owner can't be removed, and ownership can't be handed to someone else.
- Admins help run the team day to day, but never touch billing.
- Members use the team's credits and everything the team shares, read-only.
Settings ▸ Team shows each person's role (ADMIN or MEMBER) beside their address.
Sharing with the team
- Drive. Share a Drive item with the team, and update or remove the team's copy. See Mel Drive.
- Library. Share a skill, prompt or MCP server with the team. See Library.
- Connectors. Recommend a connector to the team; each member still connects it with their own key. See Connectors.
- Agent profiles. Share an agent profile with the team.
Closing a team
To close the team, cancel the Business subscription in Billing. Members go back to their own plans when it ends.
FAQ
Who can manage a Mel Business team? The owner manages everything, including billing. Admins can invite and remove members, change the seat count and share items. Members use the team's credits.
Can team members still use their own API keys? Yes. A turn on your own key uses no credits.
How do I change billing details? Click Manage billing in Settings ▸ Team.
For anything else about Business, contact us.