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# Pricing — Locuto.PRO

Machine-readable summary for AI agents and assistants. Human-friendly UI: https://locuto.pro/pricing

## AI credit economy

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**$1 USD = 100 AI credits.** Minimum purchase: **$5**.

A free organization workspace receives its first top-up automatically. Later monthly top-ups require at least one active student. The workspace's total balance is topped up to **300 AI credits**, so purchased and unused credit count toward the target rather than stacking on top.

| Purchase threshold | Bonus AI credit |
|--------------------|-----------------|
| $50+ | 250 |
| $100+ | 750 |
| $200+ | 2000 |
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## Student plans (USD / month)

Every AI tool is available on every student plan. Paid subscriptions include
monthly units; once an included axis is exhausted, the published base rate is
charged from the student's Personal Token Balance. Free has no special
zero-price operation: its personal balance is instead topped up to 100 credits
each month, and metered tools use that balance at the same base rate.

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| Plan | Monthly | Self Study / mo | Ask AI tokens / mo | AI checks / mo | Exam sections / mo | Notes |
|------|---------|-----------------|--------------------|----------------|--------------------|-------|
| Free | $0 | 0 included | 0 included | 0 included | 0 included | Personal balance topped up to 100 credits monthly; Up to 2 Cards sessions successfully created per day; failed starts do not count. Resets at midnight in the student's profile timezone, with UTC fallback |
| Study Lite | $5.99 | 3 | 200 | 2 | 0 included | Full Cards access; assistant in all lessons |
| Study Plus | $11.99 | 7 | 400 | 6 | 0 included | Recommended; Full Cards access; assistant in all lessons |
| Exam Pro | $19.99 | 10 | 1000 | 6 | 1 (ceiling 25) | Full Cards access; assistant in all lessons |
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> **Correction (2026-08-27):** An earlier version described Free Cards as a
> monthly allowance. The shipped entitlement is daily and resets instead of
> rolling unused sessions forward.

An **AI check** is one graded submission (typed writing, speaking, Live Examiner, or level
report), any type counting as one; photo/handwriting checks are counted separately. Base
per-operation rates come from the published cost catalog (`/api/pricing/catalog/`), not this
file — e.g. exam-section licence and photo/handwriting each 200 credits base, other checks
per the catalog. Photo/handwriting is metered at the base rate on every plan. Exam Pro's
included exam section is free of the licence fee; additional sections use the base section
fee, which is charged on top of the AI generation cost.

## Educator and school subscriptions

Locuto.PRO uses one graduated active-student scale. Each rate applies only to
the seats within its band; teachers and administrators are included.

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| Active students | Rate per student in this band |
|-----------------|-------------------------------|
| 1–5 | Free |
| 6–25 | $1.9 / month |
| 26–50 | $1.5 / month |
| 51–100 | $1.2 / month |
| 101–250 | $1 / month |
| 251+ | $0.8 / month |

Minimum paid monthly invoice: **$5**.

A **12-month commitment** reduces the monthly invoice by **16.7%**; billing remains monthly.
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Enterprise contracts, onboarding, invoice billing, and higher-touch support
are quoted through https://locuto.pro/contact. No unpublished enterprise price
should be inferred from this summary.

## White label

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| Option | Price | Unit | Setup |
|--------|-------|------|-------|
| Locuto.PRO subdomain (yourdomain.locuto.pro) | $0 | /month | No setup fee |
| Your own domain (yourdomain.com) | $30 | /month | No setup fee |
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Contact https://locuto.pro/contact for a full white-label agreement or current
setup terms.

## Metered features

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| Feature | Published cost | Unit |
|---------|----------------|------|
| Smart Lesson Builder | ~$0.16 (usually $0.07–$0.5; 16 AI credits) | per section |
| Image generation | $0.25 (25 AI credits) | per image |
| Audio generation (text to speech) | $0.5 (50 AI credits) | per min of audio |
| Lesson assistant | ~$0.05 (5 AI credits) | per message |
| Writing assessment | $0.5 (50 AI credits) | per submission |
| Writing assessment (photo or scan) | $1 (100 AI credits) | per submission |
| Speaking assessment | $0.3 (30 AI credits) | per attempt |
| Live speaking exam | $0.6 (60 AI credits) | per attempt |
| Pronunciation check | Free | per attempt |
| Listen (text to speech) | ~$0.01 (1 AI credits) | per 15 characters |
| Freeform answer assessment | ~$0.05 (5 AI credits) | per answer |
| Automatic lesson and homework evaluation | $0.7 (70 AI credits) | per lesson |
| CEFR level assessment | $0.7 (70 AI credits) | per lesson |
| Certificate issuance | $0.5 (50 AI credits) | per certificate |
| Lesson summary | ~$0.1 (10 AI credits) | per summary |
| Lesson transcript | $0.01 (1 AI credits) | per participant-minute |
| Lesson recording | $0.3 (30 AI credits) | per hour recorded |
| Lesson recording storage, free to replay on the lesson page | $0.2 (20 AI credits) | per hour / month |

For Smart Lesson Builder, **~$0.16 per section** is typical, not a minimum. The usual range is **$0.07–$0.5 per section**. The upper bound deliberately includes headroom above development measurements and must be revisited against production data.

You pay nothing if you cancel a lesson generation before it finishes.
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Features marked `~` vary with complexity and length. Images and audio are
separate metered acts; they are not bundled into lesson-section generation.
Certificate issuance produces a branded certificate with public QR-code
verification. Recording capture includes its catalog-published storage terms.

## Exam generation add-on

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Locuto generates exam-task sections against published exam formats: **Polish B1 NAWA**, **Polish B1-B2 telc**, and **Polish B2 NAWA**.

| Item | Cost | Unit |
|------|------|------|
| Exam task section | $2 (200 tokens) + the tokens the generation itself uses | per section |
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The exam fee is a licence to generate a section in a third-party exam format,
not the price of the generated content. AI credit used to produce the content
is charged separately, and regeneration is a new act.

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Every school includes **1000 exam sections**. Contact https://locuto.pro/contact to raise the limit.
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## Policies

- The free-workspace top-up considers the workspace's total AI-credit balance,
  including purchased and unused credit, and only adds enough to reach the
  published target when the workspace is eligible.
- A person enrolled in multiple courses counts once as an active student in
  the organization.
- The graduated estimator is an estimate; tax is calculated at checkout from
  the billing location.
- Metered operations already completed are not reversed merely because their
  output is later regenerated or discarded.

Last reviewed: 2026-08-27. Verify live terms at https://locuto.pro/pricing.