How Mechane is priced
We price to the approval threshold, not to the value of the product. The buyer's approval gate decides what closes, so every tier gives one person a clearly-defined product to decide on, at the gate they can clear on their own. Expansion then happens inside a vendor relationship that already exists, which is a far easier yes than a new vendor.
The gates we design for
| Gate | Typical band | Who says yes |
|---|---|---|
| Corporate card | under about $500 a month | The champion, on their own |
| Manager sign-off | about $500 to $2,000 a month | One email |
| Director | about $2,000 to $10,000 a month | A meeting |
| Procurement and legal | above that, or anything annual-contract shaped | Weeks |
The ladder, as bands
Exact numbers publish when they are final. The bands and the rules below are already decided, and they are what we are committing to.
Business Spoke
Corporate card bandThe hub plus one spoke from the curated set. AI is bring-your-own-key or human-mode. Runs on our fleet, email support.
Add a second spoke as a flag flip, not a new contract.
Team
Manager sign-off bandThree spokes, Mechane Zeus approvals across all of them, an included AI allowance, standard support.
Three spokes bought one at a time cost about what Team costs — and Team adds the approvals, the allowance and the support. The upgrade sells itself; nobody has to.
Business
Director bandEvery spoke, Mechane Iris agent orchestration, MCP servers for your own agents, priority support and a quarterly review walkthrough.
Enterprise Fork
Procurement bandA dedicated fork of the platform deployed in your cloud, extension seams for what only you do, an SLA and a DPA. Annual, plus a one-time onboarding fee.
The onboarding fee is honest: standing a fork up is real work, and priced services make procurement more comfortable, not less.
Founder Edition sits below the ladder
Two flat tiers for founders and very small teams, with the builder's loop and the approvals engine included, and no usage component at all. It opens in concierge waves; the numbers go to the waitlist first.
The rules we hold to
No per-seat pricing, anywhere
Flat per company at every tier. Procurement hates seat true-ups and so do we. We will never audit your seats month to month.
Governance in every tier
Approval gates, audit trails and decision records ship everywhere. Charging extra for the brake would undercut what the platform is.
The AI line item can be zero
Bring your own key or run human-mode at any tier. An included allowance exists only from Team up, where a manager has already said yes.
The assistant is free everywhere
Mechane Episteme explains the platform with citations. A product that explains itself costs less to support, so it is never a line item.
Approvals are never sold alone
Mechane Zeus is the connective tissue that makes the second spoke better. It comes with Team and above, and with Founder Edition.
Enterprise is priced against the tools it replaces
Not against a compliance premium. Run your headcount through the calculator and compare.
Where it runs changes whose budget it lands on
On our fleet, the infrastructure is priced in. In your cloud, the Enterprise Fork lands on a bill your company has already approved, our invoice shrinks, and procurement has one less line to argue about.
Sum what you pay today with the stack calculator, or read how we run it.