What SpyVault is, who it helps, and how the free entry point works.
How Free, Explorer, Pro, and Team differ in plain language.
What AI credits mean and where storage or usage boundaries matter.
When private uploads begin and how Projects connect to Workspaces.
Guests, team chat, shared billing, and when Team makes sense.
A few product terms, translated.
These definitions make the rest of the page faster to understand, especially if you are new to the product.
A collection of public or declassified material you can explore without uploading your own files.
Your own organized collection of uploaded material. It is the main user-facing home for private data.
The place where you analyze, discuss, and arrange information after data is already available.
A simple product way to describe AI-powered usage, so people do not have to think in provider tokens.
Someone invited to collaborate with limits, rather than a full member with durable admin-style access.
The billing and entitlement unit that owns plans, usage, storage limits, and collaboration rules.
Getting started
A calm introduction to how SpyVault works before you learn the plan details.
What is SpyVault, in plain English?
SpyVault is a research and analysis product. It starts with public archives and public chat, then grows into a private workspace for people or teams who want to upload their own documents and work with AI, collaboration, and organization tools in one place.
Who is SpyVault for?
It is for curious people, researchers, professionals, and teams who want to investigate material carefully. Some people come for public discovery, while others need a more serious setup for private documents and shared work.
Do I need to pay to try it?
No. Every authenticated user starts on Free. That gives you a welcoming entry point with public archive access, a default workspace, and a lightweight daily AI allowance.
What is the difference between a Project and a Workspace?
A Project is where your uploaded material is organized. A Workspace is where you think, chat, arrange, and analyze. In simple terms: Projects hold the source material, while Workspaces help you work with it.
Why does SpyVault talk about public material first?
Because the product has two connected layers. One is public discovery through archives and public chat. The other is private, higher-value work built around your own documents. Public access helps people learn the product quickly before they decide whether they need the private side.
Plans and billing
The quickest way to understand where Free ends, where Pro begins, and when Team matters.
What can I do on Free?
Free is for public discovery. You can browse public archives, read public chat, keep one default workspace, and use a small daily AI allowance. You cannot post in public chat or upload private documents on Free.
What is Explorer for?
Explorer is the first paid public-archive plan. It is for people who want more room to work with public material through monthly AI credits, public-chat posting, private workspace team chat, and up to three workspaces, without stepping into private uploads.
When should I move up to Pro?
Move to Pro when you want to bring your own private documents into SpyVault. Pro is the step where private uploads, unlimited private workspaces, more monthly AI credits, and included private storage begin.
What makes Team different from Pro?
Team is for shared operations, not just a single paying user. It keeps the private-document workflow from Pro, but adds shared billing, a larger pooled credit model, more included storage, and stronger collaboration structure for a real organization.
How does the Pro trial work?
Pro starts with a 14-day free trial in Stripe. If you are not signed in yet, SpyVault asks you to sign in first so the subscription can be attached to the correct account before checkout opens.
What happens after I click a paid button?
SpyVault first makes sure it knows which account should receive the subscription. Then it opens secure Stripe checkout for the plan you chose.
AI credits, storage, and limits
Simple explanations for the parts people usually find vague in SaaS pricing.
What are AI credits?
AI credits are the customer-friendly way SpyVault describes AI-powered usage. They cover things like document analysis, summaries, and workspace assistance, without making people think about token accounting or model pricing internals.
Why not just talk about tokens?
Because most people do not buy software in provider-token math. Credits are easier to understand and easier to compare across plans, while still letting SpyVault manage the underlying AI costs responsibly.
How is Free different from the paid AI model?
Free gets a very small daily allowance, currently framed as three AI submits per day. Paid plans shift toward monthly credits, with Explorer including credits, Pro including more, and Team using a larger shared pool.
How much storage is included?
Pro includes 1 GB of private storage. Team includes 20 GB. Those are the standard self-serve allocations for private material.
What if I need much more storage?
Larger allocations are meant to route to special pricing instead of silently becoming unlimited overage. That protects customers from surprises and helps SpyVault account for the real cost of storage, OCR, embeddings, previews, and retention.
Private documents and data
What changes when your work moves from public archives into your own uploaded information.
When can I upload private documents?
Private document uploads begin at Pro. Free and Explorer are intentionally public-material plans, even though Explorer adds more research power and collaboration.
Where do uploads belong in the product?
Uploads belong in Data, not in Workspaces. SpyVault treats Data as the area where you create Projects, upload files, and manage documents, while Workspaces sit downstream for analysis and collaboration.
Can one Workspace hold everything I upload?
Not exactly. The product direction is that data should be prepared and organized first, then Workspaces should be created from or attached to that source material. In other words, Workspaces use data; they are not meant to be the first place you dump files.
Why is SpyVault careful about upload and storage limits?
Because private-document workflows create real infrastructure costs. Storage is only one part of the picture. Large uploads can also trigger OCR, embeddings, preview generation, processing time, and long-term retention needs.
Is SpyVault only for giant document collections?
No. The self-serve plans are designed to be useful much earlier than that. The larger-capacity rules exist because some customers may eventually need very large uploads, and it is better to set honest boundaries now than to hide them.
Collaboration and access
How guests, members, and shared team usage fit together without turning the plans into a maze.
Can I collaborate before I buy Pro?
Yes, with limits. Free users can join private workspaces as guests, and Explorer adds more collaboration through private workspace team chat and guest invites, while still stopping short of private document ownership.
What is a guest in SpyVault?
A guest is someone invited to participate without becoming a full billing or admin owner. This lets collaboration exist across plans without giving away the stronger rights that belong to paying tenants and managed teams.
How many Workspaces do I get?
Free includes one default workspace. Explorer includes up to three workspaces. Pro and Team are designed around unlimited private workspaces.
Can Free users post in public chat?
No. Free users can read public chat, but posting starts on paid plans.
Why does Team use shared billing and pooled credits?
Because Team is modeled as an account or tenant, not just an individual subscription. Shared billing and pooled usage make more sense when several people are working from the same private document base.
If the FAQ answered the “what,” pricing will answer the “which plan.”
Compare the plan ladder, then choose the right entry point for how public, private, or collaborative your work needs to be.