Pricing
Pay for what you use, not what you build
Every plan includes the full ingestion pipeline, hybrid retrieval, section-aware search, and a complete REST API. No infrastructure to manage. Start free, no credit card required.
Free
For prototyping and evaluation
- 1 project
- 500 MB storage
- 2,000 queries / month
- 500 processing units / month
- 25 research credits / month
- quick + balanced research depth
Free projects suspended after 90 days of inactivity.
Pro
For developers shipping production apps with higher limits and full model flexibility
- Everything in Free, plus:
- 5 projects
- 10 GB storage
- 50,000 queries / month
- 3,500 processing units / month
- 500 research credits / month
- AI image & table captioning
- Near-duplicate detection
- Email support
Bring your own API key unlocks
- • Claim extraction
- • Contradiction detection
- • Unmetered research (no credit limits)
Supply an OpenAI or Anthropic key. You pay your provider directly — no research credits, no processing units.
Team
For small teams with multiple apps or environments
- Everything in Pro, plus:
- 20 projects
- 100 GB storage
- 250,000 queries / month
- 15,000 processing units / month
- 2,000 research credits / month
- Up to 20 team members
- Priority email support
Enterprise
For orgs with compliance, scale, or isolation requirements
- Everything in Team, plus:
- Unlimited projects & seats
- Custom query & processing unit volume
- Private deployment option
- Custom embedding model endpoints
- SSO / SAML
- SLA-backed uptime & support
- Invoiced annually
Pro & Team overage rates: $1 / 1k queries · $0.008 / processing unit. 1 unit = 1 PDF page or PPTX slide; other formats = 1 unit. Disable in your dashboard to hard-cap at plan limits.
How research credits work
Each research request consumes credits based on depth. Deeper analysis costs more because it's more expensive to serve. An exhaustive scan can traverse your entire corpus. BYOK bypasses credits entirely for research requests. When you bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic key, depth becomes a quality setting, not a billing one.
| Depth | Credits | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| quick | 0.5 | Factual lookups, targeted questions against known documents |
| balanced | 1 | Default for most Q&A and agent workflows |
| deep | 3 | Synthesis across large or multi-document corpora |
| exhaustive | 8 | Multi-hop reasoning, complex analysis, full corpus traversal |
All depths are available on every plan and consume credits at the weights above. Add a BYOK key (OpenAI or Anthropic) to bypass credits entirely and pay your provider bill directly — Dewey charges nothing for the generation.
Hosted agents draw from the same credit pool: each tool-call attempt debits 0.1 credits. BYOK skips this debit on the agent's configured provider, same as research.
What we don't charge for
We deliberately keep certain dimensions off the bill to reduce cognitive overhead and remove friction.
API requests
Request volume is already captured by queries and documents. We never punish you for building an active app.
Egress / bandwidth
We don't charge for egress. Your data flows freely.
Collections
Collections are a logical grouping. We won't push you toward bad schema decisions to save money.
Real-time connections
WebSocket connections are core to the developer experience. Metering them would undermine the product.
Section summaries
AI section summaries are generated automatically at ingestion, cached permanently, and absorbed into plan pricing.
BYOK research tokens
When you bring your own key to /research, we absorb no generation cost, so we don't charge you for it.
Claim extraction
Claim extraction runs against your own API key and consumes no processing units. You pay your model provider directly; Dewey charges nothing for the run.
Contradiction detection runs
Contradiction detection uses your own API key and consumes no processing units. You pay your model provider directly; Dewey charges nothing for the run.
Near-duplicate detection
Deduplication reuses the chunk embeddings Dewey computed at ingest — no LLM calls, no processing units. Run it as often as you like; Dewey charges nothing for the run.
Have questions about plans, limits, or data? Read the FAQ →
Ready to build?
Start with the free tier. No credit card required. Upgrade when you need higher limits, deeper research, or a team.