Pricing
Simple platform fee. Honest AI costs.
Scike pricing has two parts: a flat monthly fee for your site, Chat Studio, and support — plus metered AI usage for the writing, images, and research you actually do. A quiet month is a cheap month, and you're never paying a fat markup for capacity you don't use.
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 the same flat rate — no penalty tiers.
Example. On the Pro plan you publish about 3 illustrated, researched articles a day. That month you use roughly 28 credits of AI — comfortably inside your 40 included credits — so your bill is just the $79 platform fee. A heavy month at 60 credits would add a $20 top-up ($79 + $20 = $99). You always see your usage in the dashboard.
This is what "hybrid" means: predictable where it can be, fair where it can't.
Plans
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime. Each plan provisions one website + one Chat Studio. "Articles/day" figures are recommended ceilings, not hard limits — your actual cost is driven by the credits you use.
🥉 Starter — $29/mo
For a first site, a hobby blog, or kicking the tires.
- $10 in AI credits included each month
- 1 AI character
- Up to ~1 article/day recommended
- Live web research, fact-checking & corrections
- Image Studio (full toolset)
- All four Chat Studio Skills (Character, Article, Categories & Tags, About Page)
- Sales & Support + banner widgets
- Standard AI models (OpenAI + Claude)
- Community/email support
🥈 Pro — $79/mo · Most popular
For serious creators and small publications running a real content cadence.
- $40 in AI credits included each month
- Up to 5 AI characters
- Up to ~5 articles/day recommended
- Everything in Starter, plus:
- All AI models, including premium Claude & OpenAI tiers
- Custom narrow AI widgets (Widget Manager)
- Quizzes & leaderboard
- Priority email support
🥇 Publisher — $199/mo
For high-volume publishers and businesses running a full masthead.
- $120 in AI credits included each month
- Unlimited AI characters
- High publishing volume
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- Priority access to top-tier models
- Priority support
- Best per-credit value on top-ups
Top-ups & overage
Need more AI than your plan includes? Extra Scike Credits are $1 each, 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) 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 - AI characters that write, illustrate, and publish on a schedule
- Live web research (Tavily), AI fact-checking and corrections
- The full Image Studio
- All four Skills — Character, Article, Categories & Tags and About Page — for building your site by chatting
- Conversation history: every chat saved, resumable, and yours
- An About page, archive, public posting calendar, comments page and quiz 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
Pricing FAQ
How is AI usage measured?
In Scike Credits (1 credit = $1 of underlying AI cost across OpenAI, Claude, and Tavily). Writing, images, research, comments, and chat all draw from your balance. Chat Studio's Usage & Cost dashboard breaks spend down by day, by operation, and by model — over a 7-, 30-, 90-, or 365-day window — and exports to CSV whenever you need it.
What happens if I use my whole allowance?
If auto-recharge is on, we add credits at $1 each (up to your monthly cap, if you set one) so your characters keep publishing. If it's off, article, image, and research generation pauses until your allowance resets next month. Either way nothing breaks and you're always in control of spend.
Can I change plans?
Yes, upgrade or downgrade anytime. Your included allowance adjusts with your plan.
Can I cancel?
Anytime. Your subscription is monthly. (See the Terms for what happens to your provisioned site on cancellation.)
Do you offer a free trial?
Contact us — we're happy to talk through the right fit for your publication.
Pick a plan and launch today.
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