Plans and Billing
This page explains how plans and billing are structured in Conspecta: what each plan includes and how subscriptions are scoped. For current prices, see the pricing section on the home page.
Billing: We are not collecting payments yet. This page describes how plans are structured; detailed billing instructions will be published when we open up paid plans.
How Subscriptions Are Scoped
A Conspecta subscription belongs to a team, not to a user and not to a project. That means:
- One subscription covers the whole team, including every project inside it
- Everyone on the team draws from the same monthly usage allowance
- The team owner (or an admin) is the only person who can change the plan
- If you're a member of two different teams, each team has its own independent subscription
You can't buy a subscription for a single project. If you need separate billing for different lines of work, create a separate team for each. Every team you own has its own plan and its own monthly usage allowance.
Tip: When you sign up, you automatically get a private team on the free Evaluation plan. To keep paid work somewhere separate, create a new team for it.
Teams and Projects You Can Create
You can create more than one team, though the number you can own depends on your plan: the free Evaluation plan lets you create up to two teams of your own, and paid plans raise that limit. Each team you own has its own plan, seats, and compute usage. Its projects stay separate from your other teams. Create a separate team whenever a line of work needs its own plan, its own collaborators, or its own data boundary.
Joining a team that someone else owns never counts toward that limit. You can be a member of as many teams as you're invited to, whatever plan you're on, so being on the free plan never stops you from collaborating in other people's paid teams. When you reach the limit on teams you can create, Conspecta prompts you to upgrade.
A team can stay on the free Evaluation plan only while it's just you. The free plan is single user, so to work with anyone else the team needs a paid plan. Inviting members requires the team owner to be on a paid plan (Academic, Commercial, or Enterprise) with an active subscription. On the free plan, invitations are blocked with a prompt to upgrade, so a free team always has exactly one person in it.
Inside a team, create as many projects as your work needs. Projects don't carry a plan or seats of their own. Every project draws from the team it belongs to, so adding one never changes what you pay.
Teams are where collaboration lives. You invite people to a team, then give each member access to the specific projects they should see. That per-project access is why the team, not the project, is what you share and bill.
Plans
Conspecta has four plans. Specific prices live on the pricing section of the marketing site so they stay accurate as we adjust them.
Evaluation (Free)
For individuals trying out Conspecta. Single user, every workspace included, and 10 GB storage. Cloud compute (object detection, model training, and other server-side work) needs a paid plan. Collaboration isn't included: you can't add anyone else to your team or projects. To work with others, you'll need a paid plan.
Academic Team
For academic research teams and university programs, sold with an academic discount. The Standard tier includes 10 seats and Large includes 20 seats, each with storage and a monthly usage allowance sized for academic work.
Commercial Team
For biotech, pharma, and commercial research teams. Commercial is per-seat, starting at 2 seats with no upper limit, plus a larger monthly usage allowance and commercial pricing.
Enterprise
For institutions and organizations with advanced needs: custom compute allotments, centralized administration, and dedicated onboarding. Pricing is bespoke. Contact sales to start a conversation.
Annual vs Monthly Billing
Both team plans can be billed monthly or annually. Annual billing comes with a discount over the monthly rate. The annual total and the saving are shown on the pricing card as soon as you switch billing intervals.
Monthly usage
Your subscription includes a monthly usage allowance for server-side compute (flow cytometry dimensionality reduction, clustering, and image-analysis model training). See Compute usage for how usage is tracked and what consumes it.
A few facts that apply across all plans:
- Your monthly usage allowance resets on the 1st of each month (UTC)
- Unused monthly usage does not roll over to the next month
- Data exports are always free and never count toward your usage
- Buying additional usage between billing periods is coming soon
Seats
Each plan includes a set number of seats, listed under Plans above. The free plan is single-user; paid plans add seats for collaborators.
When a team fills its seats, new invitations are blocked with a message asking the owner to upgrade or add seats.
What Happens If Your Subscription Lapses
A subscription "lapses" when the team owner cancels it, when payment fails repeatedly and the grace period passes, or when a trial ends without a paid plan attached.
When that happens, the team flips into a read-only state:
- You can still view every project, sample, note, figure, and analysis in the team
- You can still export your data, including bulk exports from the project menu and per-workspace exports
- You cannot create or edit content in the team's projects. Saving a note, uploading a sample, running a new analysis, or inviting members is blocked until the team reactivates a plan
- New compute jobs are blocked. In-flight jobs are allowed to finish
To get back to full access, the team owner reactivates a plan from the team's Subscription section. Existing content reappears immediately; nothing has to be re-imported.
Data retention: We keep a team's data for 12 months after the subscription ends. After that, the team and everything inside it may be permanently removed. Export anything you want to keep before the 12-month window closes, or reactivate to keep your data active indefinitely.
If you only need to grab your data and walk away, the read-only window is the right time to do it. Project exports include raw files plus structured workspace data (notes, tables, sequences, analyses) so you can take your work elsewhere.
Next Steps
- Compute usage for the full compute model and what happens when you run out
- Manage your team for team roles, invitations, and seat usage
- Pricing for the current plan prices and seat counts
- Contact us for Enterprise pricing or team-shape conversations