Pricing

Three plans, paid once

Plans are credits. An answer costs ten to forty credits — see the table. Re-reading an answer you already have is free.

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A plan is one payment for one month, in US dollars — even if you are reading part prices in euro. It is not a subscription: when the month is up it stops, nothing is charged again, and you buy another whenever you want one. The end date is on your account. See refunds.

All three plans read the same catalogue — every part in it priced, dated and checked. What a plan buys is how many answers, not how much of the shelf.

One machine, nine parts, checked against each other

Builder

$24.99for a month, paid once

245 credits for the month10.2c a credit

For somebody building one machine, or thinking about it for a while first.

  • PC builder
  • Upgrade
  • Check a build
  • Combos
  • Compare
  • Showcase - post a machine you finished
  • Your builds - saved, and repriced every time you open one

No Flip/Resale pricing is not on this plan — it is what Flipper adds.

What it sells for, against what the parts cost

Flipper

$49.99for a month, paid once

575 credits for the month8.7c a credit

For somebody who buys machines to sell them again, where the tool is a cost of doing business.

Everything in Builder, and

  • Flip - what a machine fetches used, less what the marketplace takes
  • The card to actually buy - which partner's board of the chip a build picked, and why that one
The same run of work, as often as the week needs it

Workshop

$79.99for a month, paid once

No limit on credits

For a shop, or anybody building for other people often enough that the credits are the reason to be here.

Everything in Flipper, and

  • No limit on credits - every tool, as often as the work needs it

What each thing costs

An answer is priced by its size, not by what it is worth to you. A build picks nine parts out of 569 and splits a budget across all of them; a pairing verdict is one line about two parts you named.

ToolOne answerCreditsA month of Builder
FlipWhat a machine fetches used, less what the marketplace takes40No flipneeds Flipper
PC builderA complete, compatible build from a budget and a goal406of them
UpgradeWhat to change first on a machine you already own308of them
CompareTwo builds side by side, and what the difference buys2012of them
CombosA verdict on one processor and one card together1024of them
Check a buildWhether a parts list fits together and what it draws1024of them

The last column assumes you spend a whole month of Builder on that one tool, and only on the tools Builder answers. Flipper gives 2 times as many and adds the one it does not, and Workshop does not count them at all.

A month’s credits are for that month and do not roll over; when the month ends, so do they. Saved builds stay saved whatever happens to your plan, and reopening one is always free.

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