Honest pricing for real work
Pay for Power: Compute, Heavy Runs, and AI.
Not for Access
We're built for people who want to get things done without paywalls, forced upgrades, or artificial limits. ToolGrid.io started as a nights-and-weekends project funded from friends' savings, not a VC term sheet.
Core tools stay free and usable. Sustainability comes from transparency, not lock-ins. We charge only where something is genuinely expensive to run or ship.
A paid plan isn't "AI only." It unlocks higher inputs, heavier processing, bulk work, and AI features. All of that burns real infrastructure. Behind every tool is ongoing work: design, engineering, infrastructure, content, and long-term maintenance. We're building toward a million tools. Paid plans exist only where real costs exist. Subscriptions help fund that, not tricks or lock-ins.
Why We Charge for Business, and Keep Access Free
ToolGrid.io is deliberately small, independent, and bootstrapped, with no growth team inventing reasons to upsell you mid‑task. That's why all core tools remain free, regardless of plan.
What actually costs money? Not a button. It's the combination of AI inference, large‑file and long‑running jobs, bulk and heavy processing, and the servers, bandwidth, and ops that make that safe at scale. Those bills are real every month.
What about the tools themselves? We don't cripple core tools to push upgrades. What you see is meant to be fully usable. Each one takes roughly the ongoing work of a software product: design, development, infrastructure, content, and long-term care. Our north star is on the order of a million tools. That ambition only works if we can keep the lights on without selling your data or turning the product into an ad maze.
So we made a simple promise: never lock tools, never cripple workflows, never force upgrades. Business is for when you need more headroom (AI, bigger inputs, heavier runs) and you want to help fund independent infrastructure and honest development.
Your main task is never held hostage by pricing. If you upgrade, it goes toward compute, infrastructure, and building the catalog, not investor slides or ad retargeting.
The Rule We Built ToolGrid On
Tools stay free. You pay only when you need expensive headroom (AI, large inputs, heavy or bulk processing) that costs real infrastructure to deliver safely.
On the free plan we may show limited, non-intrusive ads so everyday use stays sustainable. They aren't there to interrupt workflows, hide results, or nag you mid-task.
No fake countdown timers. No surprise paywalls halfway through a task. No locking your work behind an upgrade screen. You decide when "free and fast" is enough, and when paying for power is worth it.
Lifetime deal
Unlock Business tier for life — full paid platform features, one-time payment.
★Keep TG Free & Accessible For Everyone — & get the best of TG for less than $0.6/day.
Choose billing period
Pay yearly (25% off) — best annual value
Annual billing: 25% off
Annual billing gives the lowest effective monthly price and predictable cost for long-term usage.
~3 months free vs 12 monthly charges—you keep $59.97 ($179.91/yr, ~ $14.99/mo). ~12 café coffees at ~$5.00 or ~30 soft drinks at ~$2.00—illustrative.
Wondering how branded embeds work? White Label guide on Resources (domains, tooling, vs Business).
Community
Full catalog at no cost. Upgrade only if you need Business headroom: AI, larger inputs, and heavy processing.
Example · Compress PDF · max file
Business: 50 MB web · 3 GB desktop
- Access to all tools (673+ tools, growing fast)
- Access to all TG workflows
- Unlimited usage of all tools/workflows/templates, no limits, no hidden fees, no paywall tricks.
- Unlimited generations Generate as many outputs as you need on included tools and workflows.
- Pin your favorite tools/workflows to the dashboard Customizable dashboard
- Lifetime updates to all tools/workflows/templates
- No watermark No watermark on your images, videos, documents, etc.
- Tools Visit History Track your tools visit history (e.g Most visited, Recent visited, etc.)
- Unlimited devices access Access ToolGrid.io on unlimited devices
- Add ToolGrid's tools to your site or app Pick from the catalog and paste a snippet per tool—same pattern as other add-to-site services
- Get access to Knowledge Base Unlock comprehensive educational resources and knowledge bases related to each topic.
- Privacy-first We don't save your data, ever.
- Secure & private Your data is safe with us, we don't sell it to anyone
- Support (basic) Help center, email, and community help. Standard response times, not priority.
- Access to all TG templates (Coming Soon)
- Share TG tool/flow setup with your friends/team (Coming Soon) Shareable link of your tool/flow setup
- Save your inputs (Coming Soon) Save your inputs for future use
- Web app access Use ToolGrid in your browser on any device.
- Android Mobile App (Coming Soon) Native Android app. Included on Community together with the web app; not desktop or extension.
- iOS Mobile App (Coming Soon) Native iOS app. Included on Community together with the web app; not desktop or extension.
- Early access to Creator Marketplace Early access to the Creator program and Creator Marketplace when they launch.
- My Workflows Save up to 3 workflows with 4 tools each on Community. AI can suggest tools from your use case (100 credits). Business adds more workflows, categories, search, and AI organize.
- Offline mode on desktop Business desktop apps run most tools locally without staying online. Sign-in, subscription checks, and some online-only features still need internet. Community uses web and mobile, which need connectivity for most flows.
- Windows Desktop App Business-only native Windows client with higher file-size limits than web (limits vary by tool). Community is web + mobile only.
- macOS Desktop App Business-only native Mac client with higher file-size limits than web (limits vary by tool). Community is web + mobile only.
- Ad-free Experience Enjoy an ad-free experience, just great results.
- Higher input limits, bulk & heavy processing Business unlocks larger file sizes, batch queues, and resource-intensive runs on supported tools, not just AI credits.
- Business: paid feature unlocks for visitors on your verified site See Resources Add-to-site snippets are included on Community. Business adds verified-domain licensing and paid embed session unlocks—white-label branding is a separate White Label plan.
- Access to all AI features
- Ask AI search Use AI-powered search across all tools and data
- Usage insights Track your usage and get insights into your productivity
Business
Billed yearly. Effective per member.
Billed annually
$179.91/yr · save $59.97 · ~3 mo free vs monthly
AI credits plus higher inputs, bulk jobs, and heavy processing: what costs us real compute and infrastructure, not just models.
Centralized billing. Each member gets their own credits, history, and Business features.
Team members
1
seats (max 25)
AI credits per member each year
120K /member
12 × 10K/mo per member. 120,000 per year each.
Credits shared across seats (team pool cap)
- Everything in Community
- Early access to Creator Marketplace Same Creator program and Creator Marketplace early access as Community. Listed on Business so every benefit appears on this card.
- 10,000 AI Credits / seat / mo (team pool) Your team shares a billing-period pool equal to seats × 10,000 AI credits per month (yearly: 12× per seat). New members receive a share of what remains in the pool—not a fresh full grant each time.
- Unlimited generations Generate unlimited non-AI outputs, plus AI generations within your monthly Business credits.
- Higher input & file size limits on supported tools Larger uploads and inputs where the tool supports tiered limits.
- Bulk & batch processing Run queues, batches, and multi-file workflows where available.
- Heavy & long-running processing More headroom for intensive jobs and longer runs on supported tools.
- Access to all AI features
- Ask AI search Use AI-powered search across all tools and data
- Usage insights
- Credits never expire (lifetime) Unused AI credits stay in your account for life. They do not expire.
- Ad-free Experience Enjoy an ad-free experience, just great results.
- Premium support Paid subscribers get priority handling and faster help than basic support on Community.
- Offline mode on desktop On Business Windows and Mac apps, most tools run locally without a network connection. Some features still need internet—for example sign-in, subscription authorization, updates, and tools that call online services.
- Windows Desktop App Native Windows app with much higher file-size caps than the web app for the same kind of task (e.g. ~50 MB in the browser vs up to ~3 GB on desktop, illustrative; limits vary by tool).
- macOS Desktop App Native Mac app with much higher file-size caps than the web app for the same kind of task (e.g. ~50 MB in the browser vs up to ~3 GB on desktop, illustrative; limits vary by tool).
- My Workflows Chain catalog tools in order with step-by-step navigation. AI suggests tools from your use case (100 credits). Business gets more saved workflows, categories, search, and AI organize.
White Label
Billed yearly — effective per tool
Billed annually
$179.91/yr · save $59.97 · ~3 mo free vs monthly
25% off 12× monthly · $19.99/tool at list
Unlimited embed sites and domains. Pay per tool slot; pick which tools get premium + white-label—others stay community-style for visitors.
What is White Label? — how it compares to Community and Business, setup, and earning on your own domain (Resources).
Tool slots
1
tools billed
AI credits each billing cycle
120K
12 × 10K/mo per tool slot — total per year
- 10,000 AI credits per tool slot / month (yearly: 12× per slot per billing cycle — 120,000 per slot, same as Business annual) Credits are added to your embed balance on each successful subscription charge. Monthly billing grants 10,000 display credits per slot; yearly billing grants 12× that per slot (120,000), matching Business annual credits.
- Learn how White Label compares to Community and Business embeds Resources guide
- Unlimited embed site entries — add as many verified properties as you need Same DNS TXT or HTML file verification flow as Site toolkit; limits differ from Business.
- Unlimited authorized domains per site (verify each domain as today)
- Per-tool billing: pick up to your slot count for premium + white-label embeds; other tools embed in free/community mode Slots are managed in Dashboard → Site toolkit after checkout. Add capacity any time via your Paddle subscription.
- Free end-to-end integration service: our team integrates ToolGrid tools into your website (any tech stack) Done-for-you integration at no extra cost for White Label subscribers—same service that used to be highlighted on Business.
- Access to 673+ tools in the catalog for embedding Browse tools
- Manage slots and tool picks in Site toolkit Open Site toolkit
Our commitment
Use the tools. Support the platform.
Use ToolGrid like a friend built it for you. Upgrade only if it truly feels worth it.
The free tier is the real product, the one we use ourselves every day. We'll never trap you behind forced upgrades or hidden restrictions; we want to earn trust through usefulness and clarity. If you upgrade, you're funding AI, higher limits, and heavy processing that cost real infrastructure, and you're helping a tiny team pursue an enormous catalog on the order of a million tools, without selling your data or turning the app into an ad funnel.