Pricing
Pricing that grows with you.
Free for personal use, $6/month when you outgrow the free capsule cap, $10/seat/month when you bring a team. Save up to 20% with annual billing. The API is free for everyone during preview.
Free
For Personal Use
$0Forever
- Up to 50 capsules
- Unlimited types
- MCP / API access
- Most popular
Pro
For Power Users
$6Per month
- Unlimited capsules
- Projects
- End-to-end encryption
- Revision history
- 1 GB storage
- 3 seats minimum
Ultra
For Teams
$10Per seat per month
- Shared workspaces
- Per-seat storage
- Role-based access
Compare plans
Every feature, side by side.
| Feature | FreePersonal | ProPower users | TeamsOrganizations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capsules & Types | |||
| Capsules | 50 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Types | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Projects | — | ||
| Revision history | — | ||
| Shared workspaces (organizations) | — | — | |
| Shared Types within org | — | — | |
| Role-based access | — | — | |
| Storage & attachments | |||
| Storage | 200 MB | 1 GB | 1 GB / seat |
| Attachments per capsule | |||
| End-to-end encryption | — | ||
| Search | |||
| Keyword search | |||
| AI search | — | 500 / mo | Unlimited |
| API & integrations | |||
| Preview API access | Free | Free | Free |
| MCP server | |||
| API requests / hour (per user) | 500 | 1000 | 1000 |
Preview
The API is free during preview.
Symbol's HTTP API is served under /api/preview/*. There's no separate API tier or per-request charge today — your plan's per-user request budget is the only ceiling that applies. When it's promoted to v1, we'll publish pricing on the changelog before it takes effect.
- Endpoint
- /api/preview/*
- Free · req/hr
- 500
- Pro · req/hr
- 1,000
- Teams · req/hr
- 1,000
- Per-key default
- 80% of cap
- MCP server
- included
FAQ
Frequently asked.
Is "Unlimited capsules" really unlimited on Pro?
Yes. Pro has no count cap on capsules — growth is bounded by two objective resources instead. (1) Your 1 GB storage quota, which counts both attachment files and the byte length of every capsule's text body, so it's a real ceiling not a token one. (2) A per-user creation rate of 100 capsules per hour — far above any normal human or AI-assistant workflow, but low enough to catch automated dumping. Full policy lives at /terms#fair-use.
Is the API really free?
Yes — every Symbol account, including Free, can call
/api/preview/* with no extra charge during the preview period. The plan you're on (Free, Pro, Teams) determines your per-hour request budget, but nobody pays extra for API access today. Pricing for /api/v1/* is to be determined and will be announced on the API changelog before it takes effect.How does the per-API-key sub-ceiling work?
Each API key has a sub-ceiling on top of your per-user budget so a single integration can't accidentally consume your entire account budget and starve your other integrations. The default scales with your plan and is set to 80% of your per-user cap: 400/hr on Free and 800/hr on Pro (Teams accounts use the same per-key default as Pro today). That leaves 20% of your budget free for additional keys while still letting a single key reach most of your plan's budget. You can raise or lower it per key at Settings → API Keys if you want to dial it in.
What counts toward my API request budget?
Every authenticated request to
/api/preview/* counts against your per-user budget for the current hour. Recovery and observability paths (billing, GDPR export, the rate-limit status endpoint itself) have separate, narrow budgets so they stay usable when you've exhausted your main one. Public, unauthenticated routes are IP-rate-limited rather than counted against a user budget.Will rate limits change?
Rate limits are not part of the breaking-change contract — we may tune them up or down as we see how preview is used. Any change is recorded as cosmetic on the API changelog. Limits will only ever go up at promotion to
v1, never down without explicit notice.Can I cancel any time?
Yes. Pro and Teams subscriptions cancel at the end of the current billing period; you keep access until then. Cancelling Pro reverts your account to Free — your existing capsules stay, but new ones are blocked once you exceed the 50-capsule Free limit.
Is there a discount for annual billing?
Yes. Annual billing saves about 17% on Pro and 20% on Teams versus paying monthly. Use the monthly/annual toggle on the pricing cards above to see the annual price for each tier.
How do I get a Teams quote for more than a handful of seats?
The listed $10/seat price holds at any size, but talk to sales if you have specific compliance, SSO, or onboarding needs and we'll talk through what fits.
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