ashlr pricing
June 3, 2026 · View on GitHub
Ship less context. Keep more money. ashlr Pro adds cloud genome sync, hosted retrieval, and cross-machine dashboards — on top of a free tier that is already a complete, production- grade token-efficiency layer.
Plans
| Free | Pro | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 forever | $12/mo or $120/yr (7-day trial, no card) | $24/user/mo or $20/user/mo annual (min 3 users) |
| For | Every developer, forever | One developer who wants cloud | Engineering teams |
| 40 MCP tools | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 34 slash commands + Codex skills | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Local genome + scribe loop | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Per-session token ledger | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Tri-agent delegation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Savings benchmark + badge | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Codex + Cursor + Goose support¹ | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud LLM summarizer (no Ollama required) | No | Yes | Yes |
| Cross-machine stats sync | No | Yes | Yes |
| Live auto-updating badge | No | Yes | Yes |
| Leaderboard participation | No | Yes | Yes |
| Priority support | No | Yes | Yes |
| Shared encrypted team genome (E2E + vclock conflict detection) | No | No | Yes |
| Org savings dashboard | No | No | Yes |
| Policy packs + pushed hook config | No | No | Yes |
| Genome diffs on PRs | No | No | Yes |
| SSO + SCIM | No | No | Yes |
| Audit log + SOC 2 evidence export | No | No | Yes |
| CTA | Start free | Upgrade | Contact sales |
Enterprise (on-prem, private inference, dedicated SLA): contact sales.
¹ Codex has first-class plugin, MCP, skills, and nudge-first hooks. Cursor and Goose register the ashlr MCP server only. Claude-only extras include auto redirects, status line, slash commands, and OAuth bootstrap.
Detailed feature list
Free — everything you need as an individual
- 40 MCP tools:
ashlr__read,ashlr__grep,ashlr__edit,ashlr__edit_structural(v2: Unicode + cross-file + extract-function with return-value detection),ashlr__multi_edit,ashlr__glob,ashlr__webfetch,ashlr__ask,ashlr__diff,ashlr__diff_semantic,ashlr__sql,ashlr__bash(+_start/_tail/_stop/_list),ashlr__tree,ashlr__http,ashlr__logs,ashlr__orient,ashlr__test,ashlr__ls,ashlr__flush,ashlr__savings,ashlr__pr/ashlr__pr_comment/ashlr__pr_approve,ashlr__issue/ashlr__issue_create/ashlr__issue_close(v1.18 GitHub write ops), and the threeashlr__genome_*tools. - 34 Claude Code slash commands including
/ashlr-help,/ashlr-dashboard, and/ashlr-tour, plus Codex workflow skills for doctor checks, savings, genome refresh, efficient tools, and parallel exploration. - Local genome with automatic propose/consolidate loop and TF-IDF retrieval.
- Optional local Ollama semantic search.
- Per-session atomic token ledger with fidelity confidence footers on every compressed output.
- Animated status line with gradient sweep and activity pulse.
- Calibration harness and reproducible benchmark against your own codebase.
- Codex packaging lives at
.codex-plugin/plugin.json; Cursor and Goose ports are documented inports/README.md. - 794 passing tests, MIT license, telemetry off by default, forkable.
Pro — cloud for one developer
Everything in Free, plus:
- Cloud LLM summarizer — removes the local Ollama requirement. Genome summarization runs on hosted infrastructure with the same 5s timeout and SHA-256 cache you already rely on.
- Cross-machine stats sync — your per-session ledger syncs across
machines so
/ashlr-dashboardreflects your real history, not just the current session. - Live badge — the
/ashlr-badgeSVG URL auto-updates. Embed it in your README and it always shows current savings without re-running. - Hosted embedding retrieval —
ashlr__grepuses a cloud pgvector index refreshed on every push, falling back to Ollama and then TF-IDF. Material quality improvement on repos with more than 5,000 files. - Leaderboard — opt-in comparison of savings percentiles across repos and models.
- Priority support — response within one business day.
Team — shared context for engineering teams
Everything in Pro, plus:
- Shared encrypted team genome — one authoritative genome per repo,
encrypted end-to-end (AES-256-GCM) so the server never sees plaintext.
Vclock metadata enables automatic conflict detection across concurrent
edits; concurrent writes are surfaced via
/ashlr-genome-conflictsfor human resolution. (CRDT auto-merge is on the roadmap.) - Org savings dashboard — aggregate view of every seat's per-session ledger, deduped per-repo, visible to team admins.
- Policy packs — centrally authored allow/deny lists for
ashlr__bash,ashlr__sql, and destructive operations, compiled into hook configs pushed to every seat automatically. - Genome diffs on PRs — GitHub App posts proposed genome mutations alongside every code diff. Knowledge review as part of code review.
- SSO + SCIM — WorkOS integration for identity management.
- Audit log — append-only log of every non-read MCP tool call with commit linkage. Exportable for SOC 2 evidence.
Enterprise
On-prem deployment of the full Pro/Team stack in your own infrastructure. Private inference endpoint (any OpenAI-compatible API). Dedicated support engineer, named SLA, custom genome spec. Get in touch.
FAQ
Is the free tier crippled?
No. Never. The free tier ships 40 MCP tools, 34 slash commands, Codex skills, the full genome scribe loop, per-session token accounting, a calibration harness, and a benchmark suite. It is the product. Pro adds cloud infrastructure for developers who need it — it does not remove or degrade anything in the free tier. The MIT license means you can audit every line and fork if you disagree.
Can I self-host everything?
Yes. The free tier is entirely local — no account, no outbound calls unless you opt in. The Pro cloud features (hosted embedding index, genome sync, stats endpoint) are conveniences, not requirements. If you want to run the full stack on your own infrastructure, the Enterprise tier covers exactly that. The genome format is a public spec; nothing is locked to our servers.
What data leaves my machine?
On the free tier: nothing. The genome lives in .ashlrcode/genome/, the
stats ledger lives in ~/.ashlr/stats.json, and no data is sent anywhere.
On Pro, only what you explicitly opt into: the stats ledger sync and the
cloud summarizer calls. Both are toggleable. We do not log prompt content,
file contents, or anything identifiable beyond aggregate token counts and
repo-level metadata. On Enterprise/on-prem, nothing leaves your VPC.
How is this different from WOZCODE?
ashlr is open source (MIT). WOZCODE is a closed-source commercial product. With ashlr you can read the compression logic, fork the genome format, run the benchmark against your own codebase, and verify the savings claims yourself. The Pro tier adds hosted infrastructure on top of that auditable base — it does not replace the open-source plugin with a black box.
What happens if I downgrade from Pro or Team to free?
Graceful. The plugin detects the missing or expired license on next session start and silently routes to free-tier fallbacks. The cloud LLM summarizer falls back to local Ollama (if installed) and then to the built-in snip compactor. Genome sync pauses; your local genome is untouched. The badge becomes static. No features break; no data is deleted. You can re-upgrade at any time and cloud sync resumes from where it left off.
Can I see it work before paying?
Yes. The /ashlr-tour skill ships free and runs a
30-second to 60-second scripted showcase of token savings on your actual
codebase. Run /ashlr-benchmark for a reproducible, auditable savings
number against your repo before spending a dollar.
Do you use my code or prompts to train models?
No. Not ever. Session content, file contents, and prompt text are not retained for training. The only data we collect on Pro is aggregate token counts and repo-level metadata for the savings ledger — nothing that identifies code or conversations. This is a hard commitment, not a policy that can be quietly revised in a ToS update.
How does billing work? Do you support invoicing or POs?
Pro and Team tiers are billed via Stripe (card). Annual plans are invoiced upfront. For purchase orders, net-30 terms, or invoicing workflows, contact support@ashlr.ai — standard PO terms are available for Team and Enterprise.
What is the minimum team size for the Team tier?
Three users. At fewer than three seats the overhead of shared genome sync and org policy management adds more complexity than it saves. Solo developers and pairs are better served by Pro.
Will pricing change?
Pro at $12/month and Team at $24/user/month are the launch prices. Existing subscribers are grandfathered at the price they signed up at. We will not raise prices on existing subscriptions without at least 90 days notice and an opt-out window.
Full feature comparison
| Feature | Free | Pro | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| MCP tools (40 total) | All | All | All |
| Slash commands (31 total) | All | All | All |
| Genome scribe loop | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TF-IDF retrieval | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Local Ollama semantic search | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hosted embedding retrieval | No | Yes | Yes |
| Per-session token ledger | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Fidelity confidence footers | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Animated status line | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Calibration harness | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Savings benchmark | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Static savings badge | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Live auto-updating badge | No | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud LLM summarizer | No | Yes | Yes |
| Cross-machine stats sync | No | Yes | Yes |
| Leaderboard participation | No | Yes | Yes |
| Codex + Cursor + Goose support¹ | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Priority support | No | Yes | Yes |
| Shared encrypted team genome (E2E + vclock conflict detection) | No | No | Yes |
| Org savings dashboard | No | No | Yes |
| Policy packs | No | No | Yes |
| Genome diffs on PRs | No | No | Yes |
| SSO + SCIM | No | No | Yes |
| Audit log | No | No | Yes |
| SOC 2 evidence export | No | No | Yes |
| On-prem deployment | No | No | Enterprise |
| Private inference endpoint | No | No | Enterprise |
| Dedicated support + SLA | No | No | Enterprise |
¹ Codex has first-class plugin, MCP, skills, and nudge-first hooks. Cursor and Goose register the ashlr MCP server only. Claude-only extras include auto redirects, status line, slash commands, and OAuth bootstrap.
Open source forever
ashlr is MIT-licensed. The full plugin — all 40 tools, all 34 slash commands, the genome format, the scribe loop, the benchmark harness, and every line of compression logic — is and will remain open source. No feature that exists in the free tier today will ever move behind a paywall. The Pro and Team tiers add new capabilities that require infrastructure to deliver; they do not erode what is already free.
You are welcome to fork, audit, and self-host. If you find a bug, open an issue. If you find a security issue, please disclose it privately first. The genome spec is published as a community asset — we want the format to outlast any particular implementation, including this one.
If the paid tiers succeed, the open-source project gets better maintained. If they don't, the plugin stays free and useful regardless. That is the intended relationship between the two, and it is not going to change.