Plans & licensing
The trial and the three plans - Free, Pro and Founding member - what each one includes, how to upgrade or change plan, deactivating a seat, and what happens during a license-server outage.
Cerevisor has a 7-day trial and three plans. Pricing is on cerevisor.com; this page is about what each plan includes.
| Plan | How you get it | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Trial | Automatic on first install. Lasts 7 days. | Everything, no caps. |
| Free | What you keep when the trial ends. | Genuinely usable, with capacity caps and some features held back. |
| Pro | Buy a Pro license. | Everything Free is missing, except Operator and the team conversation. Up to 5 workflows per world and 2 world files. |
| Founding member | Buy a Founding membership. | Everything, no caps. |
If you already have a license, you are a Founding member. Every license sold before this release covered everything, so it still does. Nothing you paid for has been taken away, and there is nothing to do: update the app and the Subscription tab will read Cerevisor Founding member.
Trial
When you install Cerevisor for the first time you get 7 days of everything — Operator and the team conversation included — with no caps and no nags. The countdown badge in the title bar shows the days remaining. The intent is to give you a real shot at testing the product before you decide.
Two of those things are not part of Pro. If you buy Pro after trying them, Cerevisor tells you so plainly at the moment you activate the key, rather than letting you find out when they stop.
Free
When the trial ends and you have not bought a plan, Cerevisor drops to Free. Most of the product still works:
| Capability | On Free |
|---|---|
| Workflows in one world | 2 |
| World files | 2 |
| MCP servers | Not included |
| Loop & Enhance | Not included |
| Endless mode | Not included |
| Scheduled runs | Not included |
| Cursor cloud runs | Not included |
| Web search (Tavily / Perplexity / Linkup) | Not included |
| Skill Workshop editing | Not included (browsing is fine) |
| Vault (named secrets) | Not included (at-rest encryption stays) |
| Saving a workflow as a Power | Not included (invoking a Power shared with you stays) |
| Deep launch preset | Not included (Manual, Quick and Standard stay) |
| Advanced Loop and smart stop-conditions | Not included (the simple Loop button stays) |
| Lifecycle hooks | Not included |
| Trust-role design | Not included (the built-in injection protection stays, always on) |
| Creating an Organization | Not included (opening one shared with you stays) |
| Operator | Not included (the panel, journal, objectives and review queue stay open, and you can still run a tick yourself) |
| The team conversation | Not included (reviews, help requests, Check by hand and the Overview all stay) |
Some things are deliberately free on every plan: the chat builder, Progressive Mode, per-agent provider choice, and the mobile companion including its controls.
Pro
Pro includes everything on the Free list above except two experimental features: Operator working on its own while you are away, and the team conversation between your agents. Both are part of Founding membership.
Pro also has two capacity limits: 5 workflows in one world and 2 world files.
Founding member
Everything, with no caps. Operator, the team conversation, and as many workflows and worlds as you like.
The caps never lock your work
A cap stops you creating something new. It never touches what you already have.
A world holding eight workflows opens, edits, runs and exports exactly as it always did on any plan, and the ninth is the only thing refused. Nothing goes read-only, nothing is hidden, and nothing is deleted. The same rule has always applied to the Free caps; Pro's cap works the same way.
What you see when something is not on your plan
The feature's place is taken by a short card saying what it is and offering Activate license and Upgrade plan. You are never left guessing which plan it belongs to: a Founding-member feature says so in those words.
Adding a workflow past your cap is not an error — it is a small message saying what your plan allows and what the next one does, with an upgrade button you can ignore.
Changing plan
Buying a different plan gives you a new license key. Enter it in Cerevisor and it replaces the one you have on this device. Where the button is depends on the plan you are on now:
- On Pro, go to Settings → Subscription → Enter a different key and paste the Founding member key. See pricing sits beside it.
- On the free plan or during the trial, go to Settings → Subscription → Activate license and paste the key.
- As a Founding member there is nothing above you to move to, so no key button is shown. If you ever need to swap in a different key, use Sign out this device first, then Activate license appears.
A license covers a fixed number of active devices. If you hit that number, sign out an old device first (below) and then activate the new one.
Deactivating a seat
To free a seat — you are getting rid of an old laptop, say:
Settings → Subscription → Sign out this device.
Cerevisor releases the seat and this device drops to Free immediately. The license still works on your other devices. If you forgot to sign out before wiping a machine, open the customer portal from Settings → Subscription → Manage billing and remove the old device there.
If the license server cannot be reached
If Cerevisor cannot reach the license server — no internet, a timeout, the server down — you stay on your own plan for up to 14 days, and the Subscription tab notes "(offline grace)" beside the last-validated time.
This is a hard rule: an outage can never strand a paying customer on a plan they did not buy. Only an explicit refusal from the server moves you to Free. After 14 days of failed checks, the plan lapses.
Updates never depend on your plan
Updates always download, whatever plan you are on. Trial, Free, Pro, Founding and offline-grace all get the same update stream; the update path never reads your license at all. Nobody can be stranded on a broken build by a licensing problem.
Privacy
The license server gets your license key and a device id Cerevisor generates. That is all. Your workflows, your memory and your usage are never sent to it.
The device id is a one-way fingerprint computed locally from your machine's identifier — a hash, not your serial number, hostname or anything readable. It exists only to bind a license to this machine. Your license key itself is stored encrypted on your machine.
When the trial ends
Cerevisor tells you the 7 days are up and offers to activate a license. Nothing destructive happens: your workflows and worlds stay exactly where they are. You see the Free caps and the upgrade cards from then on, and you can carry on using Cerevisor on Free indefinitely if Free covers what you do.