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Three: Local (free, on-device, forever), Pro (~$20/mo — the minimum paid tier), and Studio (~$49 per seat/mo, for teams). Everything here is self-serve — no sales calls, no custom contracts. These are launch estimates — the Pricing page always has the current numbers.

No. Local is the full app — offload, verify, rename, browse, on-device AI logging — free forever, no account, no trial clock.

Everything in Local, plus bring-your-own-key access to cloud vision models (Fast, unlimited on your key), single-user cloud sync, priority pipeline routing, local HTTP API access, and 150 Rush credits a month included. Top up with credit packs any time.

Crews, not soloists. Studio is $49 per seat, and every seat adds 500 Rush credits a month to the shared team pool — 3 seats = 1,500 credits, spendable by anyone on the team. A shared cast/roster/palette that syncs live, and the mesh (every seat a processing-farm node, so idle Macs process footage for free), are coming soon.

Managed, credit-powered compute — no API key, no model shopping. One click and your directory logs on our massively parallel pipeline: a 1,000-clip directory, logged and filename-suggested, in under 5 minutes.

One credit, one clip — always. A flat, predictable burn: every clip Rush logs costs exactly 1 credit, always processed at our best quality, no tiers and no surprise multipliers. Length barely matters — a 3-second cutaway and a 12-minute take burn the same (Rush handles clips up to ~15 minutes at launch). Local never touches credits (it's free). Fast spends your own API tokens instead of credits — unlimited on your key. Rush spends credits, 1 per clip.

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Free includes 25 Rush credits as a one-time trial — no card, no account. Pro includes 150 Rush credits a month, on top of unlimited Fast on your own key. Studio gives 500 Rush credits a month per seat, pooled across the team — plus the mesh (coming soon), so you can process for free on your own Macs.

Credit packs, purchased in-app or from your account dashboard, that never expire: 100 credits for $12, 500 for $50 (save 17%), or 1,000 for $90 (save 25%). Plan credits roll over and never expire, on every plan.

It's an experience backed by priority routing and massive parallelism, not a money-back SLA — actual time depends on clip count, resolution, and current load. Everything here is self-serve; there's no custom contract to buy a harder guarantee.

You're never stuck — drop back to Local (free) or Fast (your own key) any time, or buy a credit pack to keep the managed pipeline running at Rush speed.

Pro and up. It's the line between Local and Pro — Pro is the minimum tier where you can plug in your own key for cloud speed.

Your key routes to cloud vision-language models through our pipeline — we handle prompting, batching, and retries so you're not hand-rolling it yourself. Supported models expand as the field moves.

You do, directly to your model provider at their standard rates. Your Pro subscription pays for the pipeline, routing, and priority — not the underlying model usage.

Yes — Rush is managed compute with no key required. You pay in credits instead of tokens.

Not for Local. Pro and up need an account for billing, sync, and credits.

Sync is a convenience layer on top of data that's already local-first. Your metadata lives on your disk whether or not sync is on — so if you ever stop paying or stop syncing, nothing is stranded in our cloud.

No. Your local sidecars stay exactly as they are. Cloud sync stops updating; what's already on your Mac is unaffected.

Coming soon to Studio. Every seat becomes a processing-farm node: idle Macs across your team pool together and log footage for free, alongside — or instead of — spending Rush credits.

Pooling compute across your team's own Macs as peers, so processing spreads across hardware you already own instead of sitting idle — no separate server, no deployment project.

No — it's the Macs your team already has. Any Studio seat can opt in as a mesh node, and idle capacity gets put to work instead of sitting there.

No. Studio, mesh included, is subscribe-and-go like every other plan — no sales calls, nothing to sign.

The open sidecar file ClipLogger writes your logging metadata into — tags, notes, subjects, AI reasoning — sitting on disk next to your media. It writes .logger.json alongside standard XMP, so tools that only read XMP still get your metadata.

Premiere, Resolve, Final Cut, and Avid all read the metadata back in — log once, cut anywhere.

Your sidecars are already plain, documented JSON and XMP sitting on your own disk. They don't stop being readable if we do.

macOS 15 or later, on Apple silicon.

Not today. ClipLogger is built specifically for Apple silicon Macs — that's the platform bet for now.

Not for Local — it's fully offline-capable. Fast, Rush, and cloud sync all need a connection.

Your Mac's own Apple silicon. Local logging speed scales with your machine — no external GPU, no server.

Not exactly — we'd rather say that plainly than borrow a label we haven't earned. The .logger.json format is fully open and documented; Local is free forever; and the app's source license is still being decided (leaning permissive). We'll announce it once it's settled.

The format, for certain — .logger.json is open and documented, so anything can read or write it and your metadata never depends on ClipLogger surviving as a company. The app's source license is still being finalized (leaning permissive); Local being free forever stands on its own either way.

Same thesis as the privacy stance: your data, your decision, never locked in. An open format is how we make that a guarantee instead of a promise — your logs outlive any subscription, any company.