screencli has a single paid plan — Pro. Cloud recording (the dashboard composer) and the GitHub App require it; the CLI records for free on its own. This page explains the plan, the credit meter, and how billing is shared across a team.
The Pro plan
Pro is $12/month and includes:
- 50 cloud recordings/month
- The GitHub App — auto-test every PR
- Full analytics
- No watermark
Upgrade from Settings → Plan & Billing with Upgrade to Pro, which sends you to checkout. After upgrading you'll see a "Welcome to Pro" confirmation and a Manage subscription button.
Credits
Beyond the recording count, runs are metered in credits, where 1 credit = 1 agent step (one browser action the agent takes). Your Plan & Billing panel shows credits remaining and recordings used this month.
- A Pro workspace is refilled to 500 credits per month; the reset happens on your monthly billing date.
- Free accounts have 0 credits — the gate that keeps cloud recording Pro-only.
- Credits are a shared pool across everyone in your workspace, not per-user. One Pro plan and one credit balance cover the whole team.
Bring your own Anthropic key
If you'd rather not use the credit meter, add your own Anthropic API key under Settings → Anthropic API key:
- Create a key at console.anthropic.com.
- Paste it (it looks like
sk-ant-api03-…) and click Save key. screencli validates it with a 1-token test call before storing it.
When a key is set:
- screencli uses your key for the agent loop, and the per-recording credit gate is skipped — your credits display shows ∞ instead of counting down. Token usage bills to your Anthropic account directly.
- Sandbox compute and storage still require a Pro plan for the dashboard and GitHub-App flows — your key covers model tokens, not the cloud browser infrastructure.
Your key is stored write-only (you can view only a masked hint). Use Remove to delete it and return to the credit meter.
Manage your subscription
On Pro, Manage subscription in Plan & Billing opens the billing portal, where you can update payment details or cancel. Changes flow back to screencli automatically, so your plan status and credit refills stay in sync.
Notes & limits
- One plan, no free recording tier in the cloud. The paid gate is on cloud recording; the open-source CLI records locally for free (see Use the CLI).
- Billing is workspace-scoped. If you belong to a team, the team's Pro plan and shared credits govern your runs — see Team & workspaces.
- A BYO key doesn't replace Pro for cloud/GitHub flows — it only removes the token-credit meter. The CLI's local runs need no plan and no key.