Transparent Plans

A studio built to grow with your story.

Start free with a lifetime welcome pack of hosted layouts and continuity checks. Subscribe for a monthly hosted allotment, or bring your own key on Craft. Annual billing saves 20%.

Save 20% with annual billing

Subscription plans

  • The Hobbyist

    $0

    Free Forever

    Perfect for writers facing the blank page who want to outline their first book and explore basic structural layouts.

    • 1 active manuscript project
    • Full suite of free planning tools
    • Standard character profile builder
    • 5 lifetime welcome scene layouts (does not refill)
    • 10 lifetime welcome continuity checks (does not refill)
  • The Craft

    $6.42/ month

    Billed annually at $77

    For writers who already have an OpenAI account and want hosted layouts and continuity billed there, not on Aetia.

    • 3 active manuscript projects
    • Hosted layouts and continuity via your OpenAI API key (you pay OpenAI)
    • No hosted allotment included
    • Comprehensive timeline and world-bible workspace
    • Connect your key in Settings → Studio
  • The Professional

    $24/ month

    Billed annually at $288

    A high-volume workspace for career authors and series creators, with a hosted OpenAI allotment and your own key after the cap.

    • Unlimited active manuscript projects
    • 250 intelligent scene layouts per billing period
    • 300 continuity units per billing period
    • After the hosted cap, continue with your OpenAI API key in Settings → Studio
    • Full commercial export formats and backup history

Feature comparison

FeatureHobbyistCraftStorytellerProfessional
Active books133Unlimited
Hosted scene layouts5 lifetime welcomeYour OpenAI key100 / period250 / period
Hosted continuity units10 lifetime welcomeYour OpenAI key120 / period300 / period
Your OpenAI API keyAfter hosted cap

Pricing questions

What happens when my five welcome layouts are gone?

Your workspace never stops working. Manuscripts, lore bibles, and planning tools stay available on the free Hobbyist plan. Hosted scene layouts and continuity checks stop until you upgrade to Storyteller or Professional for a monthly platform allotment, or subscribe to Craft and connect your own OpenAI key.

What is the difference between Craft and Storyteller?

Craft uses your OpenAI API key for hosted layouts and continuity — you pay OpenAI directly, and Aetia does not include a hosted allotment. Storyteller includes a monthly hosted allotment of layouts and continuity units billed through Aetia. Both include 3 active manuscript projects.

Why are there limits on scene layout and continuity generation?

Hosted OpenAI calls are billed to Aetia on Storyteller and Professional. Caps keep those paths sustainable. Craft and Professional overflow after the hosted cap use the key you store in Settings → Studio, so those calls are billed on your OpenAI account.

Is tax included in the prices on this page?

No. Prices are listed in USD before tax. Any applicable sales tax, VAT, or GST is calculated at checkout from your billing address and added to the total before you pay.

When will the dedicated platform narrative model be available?

We are custom-tuning our own narrative engine on the platform, optimized for long-form continuity and complex worldbuilding memory. To be absolutely clear: we never utilize, scan, or process your private manuscripts, notes, or user data to develop our systems. Our framework is built from the ground up to respect classic storytelling structures. Once this platform model launches post-release, it will run on our secure private infrastructure, allowing unrestricted native prose generation across premium tiers with zero data-scraping and no external API limitations.

Do I retain the commercial rights to text generated via guided suggestions?

Absolutely. You retain 100% exclusive ownership, copyright, and title to every single word inside your workspace. Any layout or text suggestions provided by our intelligent features act purely as a private springboard for your creativity. We claim zero rights to your prose.

What happens to my books if I decide to cancel my paid plan?

Your hard work is always safe. If you cancel your subscription, your account simply reverts to the free Hobbyist tier at the end of your billing cycle. You will never lose access to your existing text files, and you can easily view, edit, or download your complete manuscript data at any time.

Is my private story data used to train public machine learning models?

No. We hold a strict architectural commitment to your data sovereignty. Your private outlines, manuscripts, and world bibles are completely walled off and are never sold, processed, or utilized to train public foundational algorithms.