Plans and credits
See how much of your plan you have used, what extra credits are, and where to find credit numbers.
Your library is free on every plan: add papers, read, take notes, search and export. You can add any number of papers within storage. Free includes every feature except LaTeX and Typst, subject to storage, usage and collaborator limits.
Free has no time limit, needs no card and never charges you. It includes the library, reader, highlights, notes, tags, folders, imports, search, citations, full data export, integrations, sync, offline reading and Plain writing with PDF export. AI work, Threads and Discover use your plan’s usage on Free and Pro.
Plan usage
Open your account menu to see a percentage meter: how much of your plan’s usage you have used. Its label depends on your plan.
| Label | Whose plan | When it resets or ends |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome credits | Free, for your first 30 days | Ends 30 days after your first verified sign-in |
| Monthly usage | Pro monthly | Resets when the next month’s usage arrives |
| Pro usage | Pro for three months | Ends with the 90-day window |
| Lab pool | An active Lab seat | Resets with the group’s allowance |
| Plan usage | A complimentary grant | Resets or ends on the date shown |
The meter reads like 62% used · Resets 1 Dec, or Ends 28 Nov for welcome credits and Pro usage. It never reaches 100% while any plan usage is left. Heavier work uses more of it: a Full paper takes more than a Quick read, and Deep processing takes more again. Unused plan usage does not carry over: when it resets or ends, the next allowance replaces it. Once welcome credits end, the menu says Welcome credits ended with the date, and Free continues. Saved research and non-credit features stay available whatever the meter shows.
Your first verified sign-in grants welcome credits (1,000 credits), once per eligible person, to use within 30 days. Welcome credits are once per person. A new account or email alias does not grant them again, and disposable email addresses are not eligible. A refusal does not prevent using Free; contact support@distari.com if you think it is a mistake. If you have used welcome credits, Distari sends reminders three days before they end and when they do.
Your plan allowance is measured in credits behind the meter. Pro monthly is 3,000 credits a month of usage and Pro for three months is 8,000 credits over its 90 days. Those credit amounts are fine print: the meter is the number to watch.
Extra credits
Extra credits are credits you buy on top of your plan. They never expire, and they are used only after your plan’s usage is gone. When the meter is full and extra credits remain, the menu says Now using extra credits. You see them as Extra credits with a count, for example 1,000 extra credits.
You need active Pro to buy extra credits, including Pro from a redeemed group code. Buying them does not extend Pro, and they stay spendable after Pro ends or on Free. Optional automatic purchase is available only with an active monthly subscription and charges only after you enable it.
Low and empty notices
Distari tells you when plan usage runs low:
- At 85% used, a low notice.
- At 95% used, a stronger notice.
- When the plan is used up, You’ve used all of this month’s usage, You’ve used all of your welcome credits or You’ve used all of your Pro usage, depending on your plan.
If you have extra credits, work carries on from them. If you have none, saved research and non-credit features remain available, and the notice offers Pro or extra credits where your plan allows.
Free and Pro limits
| Feature | Free | Pro, including an active Lab seat |
|---|---|---|
| Storage in projects you own | 1 GB | 10 GB |
| LaTeX and Typst | Read existing writings; download source and last compiled PDF | Create, edit and compile |
| People in a project you own | Two: you and one other | Unlimited |
| Buying extra credits | Unavailable; extra credits you already have stay spendable | Available |
The project owner’s plan controls its storage, LaTeX/Typst access and member limit. A Free member can edit and compile source writings in a Pro-owned project when their role allows it, and anyone can join someone else’s project on either plan. Pending invitations count towards the two-person Free limit.
Storage counts PDFs, attachments, extracted figures, writing assets and compiled output across owned projects. Trashed items count until purged; data exports do not. At the cap, uploads, imports, captures, attachments and writing assets stop, and watched folders pause. Reading, export, deletion and restore remain available.
When Pro ends, the account becomes Free. Existing research and project members stay. An over-cap library accepts no additions until it is within Free’s storage cap; an over-limit project accepts no new invitations or joins. LaTeX and Typst become read-only, with source and last-PDF downloads available; editing resumes when the owner has Pro again. Plain writing remains available. Welcome credits are not granted again.
Pro and extra credits
Choose Pro monthly or Pro for three months in Plan & credits. Signup starts on Free and does not purchase a paid plan. With active Pro, you can buy extra credits. The pricing page and checkout show current options and the final amount before you buy.
Monthly usage arrives each month and unused monthly usage expires when the next allowance arrives. Cancel through Manage billing in the web app to stop renewal; access continues until the end of the paid period. Pro for three months ends after its 90-day window without another charge, and its unused usage ends with access.
Supervisor bundles provide codes for other people to redeem for their own Pro access. Buying a bundle does not give its purchaser Pro. Existing purchases and renewals keep their original billing terms.
The core setup guide’s first Discover scan is free once per account. Replaying a tour does not grant another free scan or start paid work. Later scans and other AI actions use the applicable plan’s usage.
Shared projects
In a shared project, the project owner’s plan pays for AI work, even when another member starts it, so it does not draw on your own meter. While you work there, the account menu shows your own usage and a line reading Work here is paid by the owner’s name, plus the owner’s meter when you are allowed to see it. Weekly saved-search digests use the usage of the member who saved the search. Owners can also set a project spending cap in project settings.
Details
For anyone who wants credit numbers, open Plan & credits and choose Details. It holds:
- Credits by bucket: what is left of welcome credits, monthly or Pro usage, a Lab pool and extra credits.
- Where it went: your usage broken down by kind of work.
- What things cost: the price of each action in credits. Reading saved results, local PDF text extraction and quotes are free, and failed or stopped work releases what it held.
- Activity: the ledger of credits added, held, spent and returned, with a CSV export.
- An optional spending confirmation threshold, if you want a prompt before large spends.
Credits remain the unit Distari measures work in, and the one billing and the terms use. Everywhere else the guide and app speak in plan usage.
Refunds
For refunds or account support, email support@distari.com. Pro payments and extra credits qualify for a full refund within 14 days of payment if less than 10% of that payment’s credits have been spent. A group bundle qualifies within 14 days while none of its codes has been redeemed. The refund policy explains how to request one; canceling a subscription is a separate step.