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 who need exhaustive depth 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
- • Deep & exhaustive research depth
- • Claim extraction
- • Contradiction detection
Supply an OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini 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, Anthropic, or Google Gemini key, depth becomes a quality setting, not a billing one.
| Depth | Credits | Best for | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|
| quick | 0.5 | Factual lookups, targeted questions against known documents | All plans |
| balanced | 1 | Default for most Q&A and agent workflows | All plans |
| deep | BYOK | Synthesis across large or multi-document corpora | Pro+ with BYOK |
| exhaustive | BYOK | Multi-hop reasoning, complex analysis, full corpus traversal | Pro+ with BYOK |
Deep and exhaustive depths require a BYOK key matching the model provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google Gemini). If a key is configured, it is used for all depths (including quick and balanced) and no credits are consumed. You pay your provider bill directly; Dewey charges nothing for the generation.
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.