How Pricing Works

Aura is usage based. Every plan includes free Auto Mode usage, plus premium credit to use on frontier models (e.g. Claude Opus) for your most complex tasks.

If you run out of premium credits, you can keep going in Auto Mode for free up to your plan’s usage limits, or purchase overage premium credit (Pro and Ultimate tiers only).

You can track your usage in your account at www.tryaura.dev.

Auto Mode Usage

Auto Mode is free to use on every plan, up to your plan’s usage limits. Limits reset weekly and daily.

Paid plans have different usage limits that refresh weekly and daily. See more at www.tryaura.dev/about. Your actual number of questions depends on how complex they are too (see What Counts as Usage).

Auto Mode may consume premium credits if it detects you're asking a hard question. This is by design and intended to increase accuracy while premium credits are available. To avoid using premium credits, go to Aura Settings > Chat Options > toggle "Disable Premium Models".

You can monitor which usage events are counting as complex in your account at www.tryaura.dev.

⚠️ Free Auto Mode usage is only available if Training Data is toggled on in your Aura settings.

Premium Credit

Every plan also comes with monthly premium credit to be used on frontier models (e.g. Claude Opus, GPT Astra) for your most complex tasks. Visit www.tryaura.dev/about to see how much each plan offers.

Premium credits reset at the end of each billing cycle. Unused credit does not roll over.

Pay-As-You-Go Overages

Pay-as-you-go overage credit is available on Pro and Ultimate plans.

If you run out of premium credit, you can set overages in your account at www.tryaura.dev.

• You're only charged for what you actually use. When overages are enabled, you can expect incremental charges to your payment method.
• Overages are a maximum limit — you cap how much you're willing to spend

What Counts as Usage

We charge based on tokens, the same way model providers charge us:

• Input tokens — context sent to the model (your prompts, attached files, project analysis)
• Output tokens — Aura's responses and generated output (code, files, assets)
• Cache writes and reads — storing and retrieving context for faster responses

Specialized subagents like the Blueprint Agent and Python Agent use custom Aura intelligence and logic on top of the base model. These cost more than simple chat responses.

You can track your usage in your account at www.tryaura.dev.

How Many Prompts Do I Get?

It varies. A simple question costs less than generating a Blueprint or C++.

Each plan’s Auto Mode usage is listed on www.tryaura.dev/about, and your monthly premium credit adds more on top. The highest accuracy questions will require more premium credit spend.

Factors that affect cost:

• Model choice (Opus is the most accurate and most expensive)
• Response length
• Amount of context attached (5 screenshots cost more than 1 screenshot)
• Whether you're using subagents (Blueprints, Python, etc)

See Prompting Tips for ways to reduce spend, and IDE/Claude Code setup to learn how to use your other AI subscriptions with Aura.

MCP Usage in External IDEs

If you use Aura's MCP tools from an external IDE such as Claude Code and Cursor, basic tools like asset inspection are charged to your IDE's subscription and do not consume Aura premium credit.

However, if your external IDE triggers one of Aura's subagents (Blueprint, Python, etc), those calls consume Aura premium credit like normal.

Learn more about IDE/Claude Code setup here.