Personal provider account
Connect a supported provider credential. That provider bills your account directly.
Pricing
The product is free. AI is billed at provider cost.
Use ResearchTogether without setting up AI. When you invoke a provider-backed model, ResearchTogether adds no markup and makes no profit from the charge.
- Core product
- $0Read, create, collaborate, and publish.
- AI usage
- Provider costNo markup from ResearchTogether.
Ways to pay
Choose who pays for the Run.
Use your provider account, a Project sponsorship, or platform credit that ResearchTogether has explicitly issued.
Project sponsorship
A sponsor can fund named people, models, and AI features under explicit limits and an expiration date.
Issued platform credit
Credit appears only when ResearchTogether issues it. It is never an automatic fallback.
Charges
How a charge works.
The spending limit caps a Run before it starts. It is not an upfront fee.
Choose
Pick the model and the personal, sponsored, or platform funding source that should pay.
Set a limit
Choose the most the request or Run may spend before it starts.
Run
ResearchTogether reserves the approved capacity and stops if the chosen funding is unavailable.
Read the receipt
The Run shows the model, payer, limit, usage, provider charge, and delivery status. Unused capacity is released.
Questions
Setup, limits, and sponsorship.
These answers cover the choices made before a provider-backed Run starts.
Do I need an AI provider key?
No. You can read, create Projects, collaborate, and publish without AI. To invoke provider-backed AI, you need an available personal credential, Project sponsorship, or explicit platform credit.
Is my spending limit charged up front?
No. The limit caps how much can be used. You pay only for the actual AI usage, and anything reserved but unused is released.
Can ResearchTogether switch to a different model or payer?
Not silently. If the chosen credential, sponsorship, credit, model, or provider is unavailable, the request stops and asks for an explicit recovery choice.
Can one person fund AI for a team?
Yes. Project sponsorships can name beneficiaries, allowed models and features, individual ceilings, a monthly limit, and an expiration date.
Core product: $0