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Your Fayne plan is the subscription you pay to run your academy. It sets how much you can build (academies, courses, students, Knowledge sources), how many AI credits you get each billing period, and which capabilities are unlocked (custom domain, custom sending domain, selling, REST API). This is separate from any payments you collect from your own students. There are three paid plans, Starter, Pro, and Scale, plus a free 7-day preview trial that needs no card. All three paid plans unlock every feature; they differ only in their numeric limits and the Stripe platform fee.
This page is about what you pay Fayne. For collecting money from your students, see Stripe Connect. To change, upgrade, or cancel your plan, see Subscription.

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The plans

Starter

For testing the waters with your audience. $49/month, or $39/month billed yearly.

Pro

For coaches and consultants whose academy is their business. $99/month, or $79/month billed yearly.

Scale

For agencies and teams running academies for others. $249/month, or $199/month billed yearly. Scale removes the Stripe platform fee entirely.

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What each plan includes

Published-course counts are tracked account-wide across every academy you own, not per academy. Students are unlimited on every paid plan.
Draft courses are not capped on a paid plan, so you can keep as many works-in-progress as you like. The published-course limit is what gates how many are live for students at once.

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The free preview trial

New owners start on a 7-day preview that needs no credit card. The editor and course builder feel fully unlocked so you can shape real content, but depth is walled: one academy, up to 8 courses, up to 5 students, 10 Knowledge sources, and a one-time pool of 100 AI credits.
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Build during the trial

Setup builds your first course for you, up to 8 lessons, and it does not use your trial credits (see Quickstart). You can edit lessons, try the AI features, and add a few students to see the full flow end to end.
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What stays locked

Custom sending domain, selling with Stripe, and REST API access are reserved for paid plans; trying one shows an upgrade prompt. Custom domains and AI course generation work during the trial.
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Subscribe to keep going

When the 7 days end, pick Starter, Pro, or Scale from the pricing modal to convert. Everything you built carries over.
Trial AI credits are a single pool of 100 that does not refill. They are meant to let you feel the AI features, not run on them. Paid plans get a fresh credit allowance every billing period.

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AI credits

AI work draws from a credit pool. On paid plans the pool refills at the start of each monthly billing period (yearly subscribers still get a fresh monthly allowance). Starter includes 1,000 credits per period, Pro 2,500, and Scale 5,000. Credits are spent per AI operation:
  • Generating a course costs about 10 credits per lesson drafted. A 10-lesson course uses about 100 credits. The first course built during setup is free, up to 8 lessons.
  • A course-level AI assistant turn costs 10 credits, no matter how many lessons it edits in that turn.
  • A page assistant turn (customizing an offer page or your home page with AI) costs 10 credits.
  • A message to Fayne Agent (the chat on Home, or the brief’s side panel in the course builder) costs 2 credits. The brief and the outline are free.
  • A bulk transform costs 10 credits.
  • Generating an image in the editor costs 5 credits per image.
  • A field mission coach note costs 1 credit each time a student checks in (see Practice blocks).
  • Draft with AI in a decision scenario costs 1 credit per draft (2 if it needs a second pass).
  • A Learning Assistant reply to a student costs 1 credit. Because your audience uses it continuously, this is the main way the pool draws down over time rather than in one-off bursts.
Lighter operations such as generating diagrams or building interactive widget code do not draw from your credit pool on a paid plan. The planning, quality, and repair passes that run inside course generation are also free, and so are a generated course’s illustrations; you are only charged for the lessons produced. Checking students’ practice answers, transcribing spoken answers, and writing descriptions for your Knowledge sources are free too, so practice keeps working for students even when your pool is empty.
A simple way to budget: one full AI-generated course costs roughly 10 credits per lesson, so about 100 credits for a 10-lesson course. Starter’s 1,000 credits per period cover several full courses, and Pro’s 2,500 cover many more, plus ongoing AI edits.
When your credits for the period run out, owner AI operations are paused with a message pointing you to upgrade. The Learning Assistant pauses too: students see a note that the assistant is taking a break and to try again later, never anything about credits or your plan. Everything resumes when the next period starts, or right away if you move to a higher plan and its larger pool. Fayne emails you before that happens: one heads-up when you have used about 90 percent of the period’s credits, and another when the pool is empty, at most once each per period. A paused assistant should never be a surprise.

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Usage meters

Your billing area shows live usage meters so you can see how much of each limit you have used. The account-wide meters track:
  • Published courses used against your plan’s published-course limit.
  • Students used against your plan’s student limit (this also counts pending invitations that have not yet been accepted, since they hold a slot). You and your admins don’t count, even if you enroll in your own courses to test them.
  • AI credits used in the current period.
Each meter fills as you approach its limit. If a count goes over (for example after a downgrade), the meter flags Over your plan limit so you know which area to resolve.

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When a plan is paused or lapses

If a subscription is cancelled, or a payment stays unpaid past the grace period, the academy moves into a locked state.
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Grace period first

A failed renewal does not lock you immediately. There is a short grace window (about a week) where the plan keeps working while Stripe retries the payment.
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Then the academy pauses

After that, the academy is paused: the student site shows a temporarily-unavailable page, any custom domain is detached, and no new enrollments are taken.
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High-value pages are gated

On the owner side, the most valuable pages (analytics, sales, content preview, and AI generation) show a Reactivate plan screen instead of their data. The rest of the app stays viewable so you can check your settings.
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Reactivate to restore

Choosing a plan again unlocks everything and brings your student site back. Your courses, students, and content are kept while paused.

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The Stripe platform fee (when you sell)

If you charge your students, Fayne applies a platform fee on top of Stripe’s own processing fees. The fee depends on your plan:

Starter

A 5% Fayne platform fee on each sale.

Pro

A 3% Fayne platform fee on each sale.

Scale

0% Fayne platform fee. You keep the full amount after Stripe’s processing fees.
Selling requires a paid plan. Free and trial academies cannot connect Stripe, so the platform fee only applies once you are on a paid plan (Starter, Pro, or Scale) and have connected Stripe. See Stripe Connect for setup.

Manage your subscription

Upgrade, downgrade, switch billing period, or cancel.

Sell to your students

Connect Stripe and start charging for courses.

Knowledge sources

What counts toward your Knowledge sources limit.

Explore Library

Add courses from Explore that count toward your course limits.