Simple, transparent pricing. No subscriptions, no commitments. Add credits and use them whenever you need.
Buy credits once, use them anytime. Credits never expire. You receive the full amount minus Stripe processing fees.
Or buy any amount from $10 to $1,000 at /add-credits — the same 2.9% + $0.30 card fee comes off every purchase.
PinePaper Studio is free to use. You create art in your browser and download it locally at no cost. Cloud credits pay for hosted work: MCP tool calls, cloud renders, voiceovers, the $0.002 platform fee on voice and sound made with your own vendor key, and events collected by published widgets ($0.01 per 1,000, billed to the widget's owner).
When an AI assistant (Claude Desktop, or our chat) creates graphics via MCP protocol, each tool call costs credits. This covers Cloudflare Workers compute.
Local export is free but depends on your hardware — complex scenes with many items can be slow or fail on lower-end devices. Cloud rendering handles any complexity consistently, and is the only option for mobile devices or cloud-only sessions.
Renders are priced by frames, not by a flat rate — a 720p clip is genuinely half the work of 1080p, so it costs half. One credit is $0.015, and buys one second of 1080p/30 MP4.
credits = ceil( seconds × fps/30 × resolution × format )
Any whole frame rate from 1 to 120 fps. Up to 600 seconds per render job; a longer piece renders in segments, up to 3,600 seconds in total. Factors and a calculator: /render-pricing.
What that comes to:
POST /v1/renders:estimate returns the exact credits and price for any profile, free, before you spend anything.
Platform voiceovers follow Google's list rate on the day and are charged for the seconds actually spoken — never more than the free quote from POST /v1/voice:estimate.
On your own key, the audio's licence follows your plan with that vendor. Transcripts, image edits and uploads are currently free; keeping files is covered by the storage note below.
The built-in chat lets you describe what to create in natural language. You choose how to power it:
our own design model · Qwen3.5-9B fine-tune
COMING SOON
An intent-aware model purpose-built for PinePaper: it will classify your instruction (design vs. chat), emit canvas tool calls directly, stream token-by-token, and learn your style over time via the private knowledge graph. Built by fine-tuning a compact ~9B open base (Qwen3.5-9B, Apache 2.0) and served with vLLM — small enough to keep per-token cost low. Not yet available — for now, design in the cloud with your own API key (BYOK); credits billing lands when the model goes live.
Planned pricing. A typical design turn (~1.5K in / 0.5K out) ≈ $0.0006 — about 1,500 turns per $1 of credits once it's live.
BYOK: You pay the provider directly at their rates. We charge $0.002 per request for infrastructure (Cloudflare Workers, KV storage, session management). See provider pricing: Anthropic • Google AI • OpenAI • xAI
Storage: Templates, conversations and uploads you keep with us: the first 100 MB are free, then $1.00 per GB a month. This is not charged yet — your account page shows what it would be, and you will see it there before any charge starts.
Don't need AI chat? You can use PinePaper Studio without it. Create graphics manually, use templates, and export locally — all free.
100 MCP tool calls
$0.10
100 PinePaper LLM chats
~$0.06
cheapest option · per-token
100 BYOK chats
$0.20 platform fee
+ your provider costs
Local export
Free
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Pay once with any amount ($10 minimum). Get your API key instantly.
Configure Claude Desktop or any MCP client with your API key.
Use credits for MCP requests and exports. Credits never expire.
Stripe charges $0.30 + 2.9% per transaction. With a $10 minimum, you get $9.41 in credits - a reasonable value. Smaller amounts would lose too much to fees.
No! Your credits never expire. Add $10 today and use them over the next year if you want. They're yours until you use them.
Unused paid credits can be refunded within 7 days of purchase. The refund equals your remaining unused paid credit balance (promo credits excluded). After 7 days, all purchases are final — but credits never expire. See our Terms of Service for full details.
New users get $1 in bonus credits on their first recharge. That's enough for 1,000 MCP requests or 66 short SVG exports - plenty to try things out.
Basic exports are free locally. But complex scenes with many canvas items can be slow or crash on weaker hardware. Cloud export renders on our servers — consistent quality regardless of scene complexity. Also the only option on mobile or cloud-only sessions.
Yes. PinePaper Studio is free to use in your browser. The MCP Server is MIT licensed — run it locally with Claude Desktop for free AI-assisted creation. Cloud credits pay for hosted work: MCP tool calls, cloud renders, voiceovers, and the small platform fees listed on this page.
Sign in and open your dashboard at /account — it shows your balance, what you have spent and your recent requests. Programmatically, GET /api/me/account with your session.
Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) lets you use your existing API keys from Claude, GPT, Gemini, or Grok. You pay the provider directly with no LLM markup. A $0.002/request platform fee covers our infrastructure (KG pipeline, sessions, caching).