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Pricing

The notes app is free. Pro is $4.

Write, organize, and find the words you typed, on every Ela app. Semantic search, the notes CLI, and unlimited API and MCP for Grok Bot, Codex, and Claude are Pro.

Pro is $4 a month through Stripe. Tax is calculated at checkout. Cancel any time in Settings.

Notes

Freeforever

A notes app. Write, organize, and find the words you typed.

  • Unlimited notes
  • A full editor, folders, daily notes, and backlinks
  • Find the exact words you wrote, offline
  • Web and Mac today. Every other Ela app as it ships
  • Your files stay markdown
  • No account required
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Pro

$4/month

Semantic search, the notes CLI, and unlimited API and MCP for your agents.

  • Everything in Notes
  • Semantic search across your notes
  • The notes CLI, local and remote
  • Unlimited API and MCP calls. Never metered
  • Grok Bot, Codex, Claude, and anything that speaks MCP
  • Agents can reach your notes from anywhere
  • Private syncs as ciphertext
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Teams

Later

Shared libraries, SSO, and an audit trail, when teams ask for it. Seats plus usage.

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    How pricing works

    Three rules we will not break

    The pricing model is the same architecture decision that makes the product trustworthy.

    The notes app stays free

    Writing, organizing, and finding the words you typed never costs money. A notes app you hesitate to open is worthless, so that part has no plan and no meter.

    You pay for Pro

    Semantic search, Ask Ela, the API, and MCP are the $4 Pro plan, because they cost us to run. Voyage AI builds your search index, OpenAI writes Ask Ela's answers, and our servers answer Grok Bot, Codex, and Claude. Those calls are unlimited. Metering them would make the product worse.

    Leaving is free, too

    Ela never converts your notes into a proprietary format. Cancel, and your folder is exactly what it always was: markdown files you own, readable by anything.

    FAQ

    Fair questions, straight answers

    Do you train AI models on my notes?

    Ela does not train models on your notes. On Pro, the text of your notes and your searches is sent to Voyage AI to build the search index, and your question and the notes Ask Ela finds for it are sent to OpenAI to write the answer, under those providers' API terms. Ask Ela requests ask OpenAI not to store them. Notes in Private are never sent. We do not write note bodies into logs.

    What happens to Private on Pro?

    Titles, bodies, and tags sync as ciphertext. The cloud can see the slug, the size, and when it changed. Cloud search and cloud MCP do not return those notes, and that exclusion is tested. The passphrase is not sent to the server.

    Are API and MCP calls really unlimited?

    On Pro, yes. It is an architectural commitment, not a promotion: the expensive work happens when a note is saved, not when an agent asks a question. Metering those calls would break the product.

    What if I cancel Pro?

    At the end of the paid period, semantic search, API and token access, Cloud MCP, and the notes CLI turn off. Your notes stay: the notes app keeps working, and you can always export them. The cloud semantic index for your library is deleted 30 days after you cancel. Re-subscribe whenever you want Pro back.

    Is $4/month final?

    It is the early-access price. If real infrastructure costs force a change we will say so plainly. The shape is permanent: the notes app is free, and you pay only for semantic search, the notes CLI, and unlimited agent access.

    Point it at a folder. Start asking.

    Keep the notes you have. The notes app is free. Pro is $4 a month.

    The web and desktop apps work today. Desktop builds are not code-signed yet.