Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing
Start for free, no credit card required. Scale when you need to. Every plan includes real-time document sync, section-aware retrieval, and a full REST API.
Free
For prototyping and evaluation
- 1 project
- 50 documents / month
- 500 MB storage
- 2,000 queries / month
- 25 research credits / month
- quick + balanced depth
- 1 team member
- Bring your own API key
- Deep + exhaustive research
- Priority support
Free projects suspended after 90 days of inactivity.
Pro
For individual developers shipping production apps
- 5 projects
- 2,000 documents / month
- 10 GB storage
- 50,000 queries / month
- 500 research credits / month
- All research depths
- 1 team member
- Bring your own API key
- AI image captioning (BYOK)
- Email support
- Multiple seats
Overages: $0.02 / doc · $0.50 / 1k queries
Team
For small teams with multiple apps or environments
- 20 projects
- 10,000 documents / month
- 100 GB storage
- 250,000 queries / month
- 2,000 research credits / month
- All research depths
- 20 team members
- Bring your own API key
- AI image captioning (BYOK)
- Priority email support
Overages: $0.015 / doc · $0.35 / 1k queries
Enterprise
For orgs with compliance, scale, or isolation requirements
- Unlimited projects & seats
- Custom document & query volume
- Private deployment option
- Custom embedding model endpoints
- SSO / SAML
- SLA-backed uptime & support
- Invoiced annually
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 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 OpenAI key. If you have a key configured, it is used for all depths (including quick and balanced) and no credits are consumed. You pay your OpenAI 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
No underlying egress cost means no pass-through charge. 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.
Ready to build?
Start with the free tier. No credit card required. Upgrade when you need more documents, deeper research, or a team.