# Manage billing

> Source: https://elaichi.ai/docs/guides/settings/billing/

See which plan this organization is on, how long a trial has left, which features are included, and (when self-serve billing is configured) subscribe or open the billing portal.

**Where to find it:** **Settings → Billing**

Opening the Billing tab needs **View billing** (`billing:view`) — built-in **Org Owner**, **Org Admin**, **Billing Admin** and **Auditor**. **Checkout** and **Manage billing** need **Manage billing** (`billing:manage`), held only by **Org Owner** and **Billing Admin**.

## Plans at a glance

New organizations start with a **14-day Gold trial**. There is no permanent free tier.

**Gold is the plan you can buy today**, and it covers everything a team needs day to day, including enterprise identity. **Black is coming soon** and is not on sale yet. It adds customer-managed AWS KMS encryption keys and log forwarding, plus the automation platform — workflows, automations, collections and live dashboards, none of which is available yet.

| Area | Gold | Black |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Workspace (teams, members, invites, connections, toolboxes, built-in roles, audit) | ✓ | ✓ |
| MCP endpoint | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom roles, restrictions, synthetic tools, custom connectors | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSO (SAML or OIDC), SCIM, group → role mappings | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bring your own key (customer-managed AWS KMS) | — | ✓ |
| Logging destinations (forward audit events) | — | ✓ |
| Workflows, automations, collections, live dashboards | — | Coming soon |

The Billing page lists each feature with **Included** or **Locked** for your current entitlements.

## What the Billing tab shows

- **Current plan** badge (for example Gold or Black), or **No plan** when access has expired
- **Trial** badge with days remaining while a Gold trial is active
- **Subscription status** badge when you have an active subscription (wording comes from the billing provider status)
- Feature list with tier labels (Gold / Black) and lock state

## Subscribe or manage payment

When self-serve billing is available in your environment:

| Action | When it appears |
| --- | --- |
| **Get Gold** / **Subscribe to Gold** | Gold checkout is available and you are not already on a non-trial Gold subscription |
| **Upgrade to Black** / **Subscribe to Black** | Black checkout is available and you are not already on Black (or you are still on a trial) |
| **Manage billing** | You already have a billing customer and are subscribed (not only on trial needing subscribe) |

Checkout and the portal open in the browser so you can complete payment or update payment details and invoices.

If the page says self-serve billing isn’t available in this environment, contact support to change plans — do not invent alternate checkout steps.

## When a plan expires

Without an active Gold or Black plan (for example after trial without subscribing), the workspace **pauses**: product APIs and day-to-day work stop, while configuration and data are retained. Organization settings and billing recovery remain reachable so you can subscribe and restore access.

## Good to know

- Black is not on sale yet, so the features listed against it cannot be bought today.
- Trial countdown is visible on this tab; act before the trial ends if you need uninterrupted access.
- Feature entitlements refresh after a successful subscribe; reopen Billing if a badge looks stale.

## Related

- [Update your organization profile](/guides/settings/organization-profile)
- [Set up single sign-on](/guides/settings/single-sign-on)
- [Forward audit events](/guides/settings/logging)
- [Roles and permissions](/guides/members/roles)