pricing · revision 1 · departments, not seats
Pay for departments and for what they use. Never for seats.
A department is a flat monthly fee with its equipment included and as many people as you like. Usage is the provider's price plus a margin printed on every receipt. The first department is free.
the tariff
Five lines. That is the whole bill.
Prices in US dollars, excluding VAT. Every line appears on your receipt by name.
USD 0
per month
Workshop
One department to run for real, free, with the receipt on every run. For a firm trying Q on one job, the chase or the renewal, before it pays anything.
- departments
- 1
- runs
- 50 a month
- seats
- unlimited
- usage
- provider price + 20 %
- receipts
- on every run
- spaces
- 1
USD 149
per department, per month
Department
Operations, finance, people or records, with as many people as the department has. The Elementary system it runs on is included, and so are the connections to the systems you already have.
the division fee below is waived while you have one paid department
- seats
- unlimited
- runs
- unlimited · usage billed
- equipment
- Route Royal for operations · Vellon for finance · Wocha identity throughout
- your systems
- connected and included
- approvals · journal
- included
- traces kept
- 90 days
USD 49
per organisation, per month
The division
The control plane on its own: receipts, the journal, approvals and a space, for an organisation that wants the record before it opens a paid department.
- seats
- unlimited
- waived
- while one department is paid
- receipts · journal · approvals
- included
- spaces
- 1
+20 %
on the provider's price
Usage
Model calls are billed at the provider's own price plus twenty percent. Both figures are printed on every receipt, so the margin is never hidden inside a credit.
- provider price
- as the provider publishes it
- margin
- 20 % · printed on the receipt
- budgets
- set per department · a hard budget needs a decision
- prepaid from USD 1,000
- 10 % off usage
- prepaid from USD 10,000
- 20 % off usage
On request
annual agreement
Division agreement
For organisations that need invoice billing, dedicated tenancy and retention periods of their own, and that want mandates and assurance exports as they go live.
- billing
- invoice
- tenancy
- dedicated
- retention
- yours to set
- mandates
- when live
- assurance exports
- when live
why no seats
A seat is a tax on adoption.
Seat pricing charges a firm more for letting more of its people use the tool, which is the opposite of what a department is for. Q charges for the department and for the work it does. Twenty people or two hundred, the department costs the same, and the usage line says exactly what the work cost.
The equipment is part of the department. A finance department comes with the billing system it runs on; an operations department with the CRM. You are not asked to buy them again. Where you already have systems of your own, they are connected and included.
The margin on usage is a published number, printed beside the provider's price on every receipt. It is the only honest way to charge for tokens, and no one else returns a receipt to print it on.
a worked bill
One firm, one month.
A property firm of twenty people running operations and finance through Q, with three thousand two hundred runs in the month.
property firm · operations and finance · one month
- the division
- waived
- operations department
- USD 149.00
- finance department
- USD 149.00
- runs
- 3,200
- provider price
- USD 153.42
- margin · 20 %
- USD 30.68
total, excluding VAT
USD 482.10
specimen · values are illustrative · usage varies with the work
the small print
What else you should know.
- revision
- 1 · 2026-11-01 · the earlier seat-based tiers are retired
- VAT
- added where it applies
- billing
- monthly by card · by invoice under a division agreement
- changes
- announced to organisations in service before they take effect
Questions about pricing go to q@elementary.mu.