# Pricing tiers — quick overview

Three tiers. The full pricing detail is in the [Pricing](/3.-pricing/03-pricing.md) section; this page is the elevator-pitch version.

## Free

**Cost:** $0 **Audience:** anyone — researchers, individual builders, hobbyists, evaluation buyers running a trial **What's in:**

* Full access to **Stratix Public** — models, benchmarks, public evaluations, compare-models, public spaces, search, leaderboard
* A Premium account with starter ECU credits
* One organization
* Basic seats
* The Python SDK and CLI

**What's not in:**

* Larger ECU balances (purchase under Premium)
* Enterprise SSO
* Hybrid or self-hosted deploy
* Volume support

[Read the full Free tier details →](/3.-pricing/free-tier-details.md)

## Premium (Pay-As-You-Go)

**Cost:** ECU PAYG (consumption-based) **Audience:** AI teams shipping features **What's in:**

* Everything in Free
* Pay-as-you-go ECU consumption — buy credits as needed
* Multi-org membership and switching
* Team seats
* BYOK custom models
* Full agentic-evaluation product
* GEPA judge optimization
* Trace evaluations
* Notifications and in-app Assistant
* Priority email support

**What's not in:**

* SSO (Enterprise)
* Data residency selection (Enterprise)
* Custom contractual terms (Enterprise)

[Read the full Premium tier details →](/3.-pricing/premium-tier-details.md)

## Enterprise

**Cost:** custom — annual contract **Audience:** larger organizations, regulated industries, security-driven buyers **What's in:**

* Everything in Premium
* **SSO** (SAML, OIDC) — enterprise IdP integration
* **Data residency** selection
* **Custom contractual terms** — DPA, MSA, SLA
* **Dedicated CSM** and white-glove onboarding
* **Volume ECU** pricing
* **Audit log access** and extended retention

**What's not in:** depends on the negotiated contract — talk to sales.

[Read the full Enterprise tier details →](/3.-pricing/enterprise-tier-details.md)

## Picking a tier

| If you...                                        | Pick                           |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------ |
| Just want to browse the catalog                  | Free / Stratix Public          |
| Run a trial on your data                         | Free + Premium starter credits |
| Ship AI features as a small/mid team             | Premium PAYG                   |
| Need SSO, data residency, contractual SLA        | Enterprise                     |
| Build an internal AI platform serving many teams | Enterprise                     |

## Where to next

* [Pricing](/3.-pricing/03-pricing.md) — full details, FAQ, ECU economics
* [How Stratix compares](/1.-introduction/how-stratix-compares.md) — total cost of ownership vs alternatives
* [Enterprise](/3.-pricing/03-pricing.md) — what's actually in the Enterprise tier
* [Industry patterns](/4.2-industry-use-cases/travel-hospitality.md) — grounded vignettes by vertical


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