---
id: "69"
slug: "lounge-rebrand"
date: "2026-07-24"
title: "Chat Is Now Lounge"
summary: "Our consumer chat app has a name: Lounge by LLM Gateway — the members' lounge for AI. Same app, same prices, same chat.llmgateway.io, with a full visual identity: membership pricing, boarding-pass plan cards, and a proper wordmark."
image:
  src: "/changelog/lounge-rebrand.png"
  alt: "A golden art-deco lounge armchair on a circuit-board chip, surrounded by chat, ticket, coin, and receipt icons — the new Lounge identity"
  width: 1536
  height: 1024
---

Our chat app never really had a name — it was "the playground" in some places, "LLM Gateway Chat" in others, and just "Chat" in the navbar. Today it gets one: **Lounge**, the members' lounge for AI. Every frontier model, waiting in one place.

Nothing about how the app works changes. Same app, same URL ([chat.llmgateway.io](https://chat.llmgateway.io)), same prices, same models, and your chats, projects, and history are exactly where you left them. What changes is that the product finally looks and sounds like what it is: one membership instead of a stack of AI subscriptions.

## Memberships, not plans

Chat Plans are now **Lounge memberships** — same three tiers, same prices, same credit multipliers:

| Membership  | Price  | Usage value        | Models                                      |
| ----------- | ------ | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------- |
| **Starter** | $9/mo  | ~2× what you pay   | The fast models                             |
| **Plus**    | $19/mo | ~2.5× what you pay | Every model, frontier flagships included    |
| **Pro**     | $49/mo | ~3× what you pay   | Every model, with the most monthly headroom |

The pricing page now hands you a boarding pass instead of a pricing card: each tier is a **Member Pass** with a perforated stub, a tier code, and a barcode. The information is the same — what you pay, what you actually get at provider rates, and how many messages that buys.

<img src="/changelog/lounge-membership-passes.png" alt="The three Lounge Member Pass cards — Starter, Plus, and Pro — styled as boarding passes with perforated stubs and barcodes" width="1120" height="942" />

Existing subscribers don't need to do anything. Your tier, billing cycle, and remaining credits carry over untouched — only the words on the receipts changed.

## Pay-as-you-go gets a bar receipt

Topping up credits now itemizes your total on a **Lounge bar receipt** — the same amounts and the same 5% platform fee, printed the way a receipt should be.

<img src="/changelog/lounge-bar-receipt.png" alt="The Top Up Credits dialog with the fee breakdown styled as a Lounge bar receipt" width="500" height="714" />

## Everywhere the name appears

The rename runs through the whole product, not just the landing page:

- **In the app** — a proper Lounge wordmark in every sidebar, the login and signup pages, shared-chat pages, and the PWA install name.
- **On invoices and emails** — Stripe line items and billing history now read "Lounge PLUS membership renewed" instead of "Chat Plan PLUS renewed".
- **Across the site and docs** — the dashboard, the [comparison pages](https://chat.llmgateway.io/compare), and the [docs](https://docs.llmgateway.io/learn/chat-plans) all say Lounge now.

DevPass is your all-access pass for coding tools; Lounge is your seat for everything else. One account, one balance, both products.

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**[Take a seat →](https://chat.llmgateway.io)** | **[See memberships →](https://chat.llmgateway.io/pricing)**
