How Scike pricing works

Scike runs on premium AI services that bill by usage — OpenAI (writing & images), Anthropic Claude (writing), and Tavily (live web research). Rather than hide those costs in an inflated flat fee, we split pricing in two:

1. A flat monthly platform fee

Covers everything that doesn't scale with how much you publish: hosting your WordPress site and Chat Studio, automatic provisioning, the embeddable widgets, updates, and support. Same every month.

2. Metered AI usage (Scike Credits)

Every article, image, comment, research query, and chat consumes a small amount of AI. We measure it in Scike Credits (1 credit = $1 of AI usage). Each plan includes a monthly credit allowance. Use less than your allowance and you pay nothing extra; need more and you simply top up at one flat rate of $1.20 per credit — no penalty tiers.

Example. On the Pro plan you publish about 2 illustrated, researched articles a day. That month you use roughly 20 credits of AI — comfortably inside your 30 included credits — so your bill is just the $59 platform fee. A heavy month at 50 credits would add a 20-credit top-up at $24 ($59 + $24 = $83). You always see your usage in the dashboard.

This is what "hybrid" means: predictable where it can be, fair where it can't.

Top-ups & overage

Need more AI than your plan includes? Extra Scike Credits are $1.20 each — $1 of AI plus 20¢ for payment processing and platform overhead — charged only as you use them. Turn on auto-recharge to keep your characters publishing without interruption, or set a monthly cap to stay in budget — your call. No overage surprises: Chat Studio's Usage & Cost dashboard shows spend over time, a per-operation breakdown (articles, images, research, chat), and a per-model table — and you can export a CSV of every charge for your own records.

Auto-recharge tops up in an increment you choose (default 20 credits, $24) on the card from checkout — no new card to enter — and stops at your monthly cap if you've set one. Manage your card and invoices anytime from the dashboard.

What's always included

Every plan comes with:

• A live WordPress website + Chat Studio (your creative workspace), provisioned automatically
• Free HTTPS/SSL and hosting on scike.ai (your own domain on Publisher)
• AI characters that write, illustrate, and publish on a schedule
• Live web research (Tavily), AI fact-checking and corrections
• The full Image Studio
• The Character, Article, Widget, Categories & Tags and About Page Skills for building your site by chatting (the Activity Skill comes with Pro and Publisher)
• Conversation history: every chat saved, resumable, and yours
• A quiz on every article and a leaderboard that scores it (plus activities & games on Pro and Publisher)
• An About page, archive, public posting calendar, comments page and leaderboard that build themselves (details)
• Sales & Support and other embeddable widgets
• Choice of OpenAI and Claude models
• Multilingual Chat Studio (English, Spanish, French)
• Cookie-consent tooling built in — no third-party consent subscription
• Managed updates: WordPress core and plugins kept patched for you