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title: Lounge Memberships
description: Monthly membership plans for Lounge, the LLM Gateway chat app
icon: Sparkles
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Lounge memberships (formerly Chat Plans) are optional monthly subscriptions for [Lounge](https://chat.llmgateway.io), the LLM Gateway chat app. Instead of paying per request from your pay-as-you-go balance, a membership gives you a pool of monthly credits worth more than you pay — so heavy chat usage costs less.

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## Plans

There are three tiers, billed monthly:

| Plan        | Price  | Monthly value   | Models                                                                       |
| ----------- | ------ | --------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Starter** | $9/mo  | ~2× the value   | Most chat models — Claude Haiku & Sonnet, GPT-5-mini, Gemini Flash, and more |
| **Plus**    | $19/mo | ~2.5× the value | Everything in Starter **plus** frontier models                               |
| **Pro**     | $49/mo | ~3× the value   | All models, highest monthly allowance                                        |

The credit multiplier is tapered: the larger the plan, the more usage value each dollar buys at provider rates.

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	**Frontier models** — flagship models such as Claude Opus, GPT-5, Gemini 2.5
	Pro, and Grok 4 are included on **Plus** and **Pro**. The Starter plan covers
	the broad catalog of everyday chat models but does not include these frontier
	models.
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## How credits work

- **Monthly reset** — Your plan credits refresh at the start of each billing cycle. Unused credits do **not** roll over to the next month.
- **Plan credits drain first** — Requests made from the chat app draw down your plan's monthly credits before anything else.
- **Pay-as-you-go fallback** — Once your monthly credits are used up, the chat app falls back to your regular pay-as-you-go balance, which never expires. You can keep chatting without interruption.

## Managing your plan

- Open the **Pricing** page from the Lounge sidebar to compare tiers and subscribe.
- Your active membership appears in the Lounge sidebar with a badge, alongside how many credits remain for the cycle.
- **Upgrading** takes effect immediately: you're charged the new tier's full price, your billing cycle restarts, and your credits reset to the new tier's full monthly allowance. Unspent credits from the old cycle don't carry over.
- **Downgrading** also takes effect immediately: you move to the lower tier's allowance right away, and the unused portion of what you already paid for the higher tier is credited against your next invoice.
- **Cancelling** takes effect at the end of the period you've already paid for — you keep access until then.
