Pricing
Simple pricing. Free to start.
The full Mel terminal is a free download today, no account needed. The AI agent is free on your own provider key — no Mel credits, no Mel markup — and 1,500 hosted-AI credits a month on Pro.
Free
The full terminal, free forever — and the AI agent on your own provider key, at your provider's price.
- The full Mel terminal — blocks, palette, splits, chips — free to download now
- Built-in code review, editor & LSP
- CLI agents & SSH melting — no account needed, no limits
- Bring your own provider key: no Mel credits, no Mel markup
- 3 agent web searches a day, on us
- macOS, Windows & Linux
Pro
Recommended1,500 hosted-AI credits every month across every frontier model — no keys to manage.
- 1,500 hosted-AI credits every month across every frontier model
- All frontier models — Claude, GPT, Gemini, and more — no keys to manage
- Automatic model routing + fallback
- Add-on credit packs + optional auto-reload
- Email support
- Cancel anytime
Max
Pro with the biggest bucket — 18,000 credits a month.
- 18,000 hosted-AI credits every month — the biggest bucket
- Unlimited cross-session memory + up to 8 agents in parallel
- For power users who live in the agent
- Priority support
- Cancel anytime
For teams
Shared credits, one invoice, an invite link, priority support.
Business
Pro for a team — one pool of credits, one invoice, and an invite link to add people.
- 1,500 hosted-AI credits a month per seat, shared by the whole team
- Minimum 2 seats — add or remove seats any time
- Invite your team with a link; one admin manages seats and billing
- One subscription, one invoice
- Priority support
- Cancel anytime
Something bigger?
Rolling Mel out to a larger org, or need volume seats, procurement paperwork, or security questions answered first? Tell us what you need and a human will get back to you.
Contact usOr email us any time — we read everything.
Free is free forever, and a free Mel account is required to use the AI agent. Bring your own provider key and Mel charges you nothing — you pay your provider directly, at their price, with no Mel credits and no Mel markup; fair-use limits apply (currently 400 agent turns a day) to stop scripted abuse. Every paid plan includes a monthly credit allotment across all frontier models — simple credits, never per-token surprise billing. Cancel anytime.
Mel API
Mel's agent, from your other tools.
Hand Mel's coding agent a task in a folder on your computer from the AI app you already use, and read back what it found or did. It runs on your own model keys.
- One run is one task, however many steps it takes
- Your model provider bills its tokens to you directly — no Mel credits, no Mel markup
- Read-only by default: Mel edits files or runs commands only in folders you grant, or after you say yes
- Works from Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code, through Mel's MCP server
- Create, name and revoke your keys on your account page
Compare plans
Everything Mel can do, by plan.
The whole terminal is free. Plans differ on how many monthly AI credits you get — and, on Business, priority support and a per-seat rate.
Free $0 Download | Pro $20/mo · $18 annual Get Pro | Max $200/mo · $180 annual Get Max | Business $50/seat/mo · $45 annual Get Business | |
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| AI & models | ||||
| Monthly hosted-AI credits | — | 1,500 / mo | 18,000 / mo | 1,500 / seat / mo, shared |
| All frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Groq, DeepSeek, Moonshot, GLM) | On your own key | |||
| Bring your own key — 0 Mel credits, no Mel markup | ||||
| Automatic model routing + fallback | ||||
| Reasoning-effort levels | ||||
| Web search (built-in) — searches / day | 3 | 250 | 1,000 | 250 |
| Multi-agent orchestration — parallel agents | 1 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| Image understanding (vision) — images / message | 3 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Cross-session agent memory — recall window | 30 days | 1 year | Unlimited | 1 year |
| Add-on credit packs (400/1k/3k/6.5k) | — | |||
| Auto-reload (off by default) | — | |||
| Terminal & coding — all free, every tier | ||||
| Modern terminal — blocks, palette, splits, chips | ||||
| Built-in code review panel | ||||
| Built-in editor with real LSP (rust-analyzer, tsserver, pyright, clangd) | ||||
| CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, …) embedded — 0 Mel credits | ||||
| SSH melting — run the agent on a remote host | ||||
| Global search (ripgrep, git-grep fallback) | ||||
| Mel Drive — workflows, prompts, notebooks (local, unlimited) | ||||
| macOS, Windows & Linux | ||||
| Team & billing | ||||
| Seats | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 or more — you choose |
| Team member accounts | — | — | — | |
| Invite link, add or remove seats, one admin | — | — | — | |
| One credit balance the whole team shares | — | — | — | |
| Shared agents & settings (team Drive, rules, agent profiles) | — | — | — | |
| Privacy & support | ||||
| Your own key stays on your device (keychain / 0600 file) | ||||
| Hosted keys held server-side (never in the app) | ||||
| Local-first — conversations & Drive stay on your machine | ||||
| Approve every write, edit & command | ||||
| Community support | ||||
| Email support | — | |||
| Priority support | — | — | ||
Privacy & security
Your privacy and security.
Transparency and control at every touchpoint — by design, not as an add-on.
Hosted-plan keys live on the Mel relay — never shipped in the app. Bring your own key and it stays on your device, in the OS keychain.
Conversations and history live on your computer, not our servers. You decide what leaves your machine.
Writes, edits, and commands round-trip an approval card. The agent never changes files behind your back.
FAQ
Questions & answers
Yes. The full Mel terminal — blocks, palette, splits, chips, code review, editor and LSP — is a free download today on macOS, Windows and Linux. No account required.
Sign up for a free Mel account in the app — it's instant, no waitlist. On the Free plan the agent runs on your own provider key: you pay your provider directly, at their price, with no Mel credits and no Mel markup. Upgrade to Pro for 1,500 hosted-AI credits a month if you'd rather not manage keys.
On the Free plan, yes — the agent runs on a provider key you add in Settings → AI (Groq and Gemini both have free key tiers). On Pro, Max and Business you don't need one: Mel talks to a relay that holds the model keys server-side, so there's nothing to configure. You can still bring your own key on any plan, and it costs 0 Mel credits.
macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel), Windows 10/11, and Linux. It's a direct download — no account required.
Conversations and history are stored locally on your machine, under your home directory. Mel is local-first by default.
Yes — bring your own provider key any time, and let 'auto' route each task to the best one.
Business is Pro for a team: $50 a seat a month, or $45 a seat a month billed yearly, with a minimum of 2 seats. Each seat adds 1,500 hosted-AI credits a month to one balance the whole team shares. One admin pays, invites people with a link, and adds or removes seats any time — one subscription, one invoice. The team also shares agents and settings: Drive items, tab configs, rules, agent profiles and recommended connectors.
Each paid plan includes a monthly credit allotment (Pro 1,500, Max 18,000, Business 1,500 a seat, shared by the team) that works across every frontier model. Credits reset each month; add-on packs roll over. Run out and the agent pauses — shell and your own key keep working. Manage or cancel anytime from the billing portal. Annual saves 10%.
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The Mel terminal is free to download, no account needed. The AI agent is free on your own provider key — 1,500 hosted-AI credits a month on Pro.