# Billing and project access

SERPclimber Core is one subscription that scales by active project and usage. A project represents one website or domain.

## What Core includes

Core costs **$149 per month** or **$1,428 per year** and includes one active project. Each active project adds:

- 12 experiment starts per month
- 25 live AI asks per month
- Weekly AI Visibility monitoring
- Pages, Experiments, Autopilot, and unlimited subscriber Chat

Allowances are pooled across all active projects. For example, three active projects provide 36 experiment starts and 75 live asks. An additional active project costs **$69 per month** or **$660 per year**.

If you explicitly enable overages, additional experiment starts are $6 each and additional live asks are $0.50 each. You must set a monthly overage spending cap before overages can begin.

## Active and read-only projects

Active projects can run fresh scans, live asks, drafting, experiments, and Autopilot. Manual experiment starts do not have a concurrency limit. The Autopilot slots setting only limits simultaneous automated experiments.

A project removed from the plan remains active through the paid term and then becomes read-only. Read-only projects keep their history, settings, integrations, Pages, experiments, drafts, and AI Visibility results. First-party synchronization can continue, but new metered scans, asks, drafts, experiments, and automated work are disabled.

Read-only is not archived. Removing a project from billing never deletes or archives it. An experiment that started while the project was active can finish its measurement and final decision.

## Adding, removing, and swapping projects

If your account has an unused paid project position, a project can use it without another charge. Otherwise, SERPclimber shows Stripe's exact prorated charge before adding capacity. A project activates only after Stripe confirms payment.

Removing a project takes effect at renewal and can be undone before then. The final active project cannot be removed by itself; cancel Core or schedule a swap instead. A swap changes which project uses the paid position at renewal without changing the subscription quantity or price.

Archiving a project does not change billing. Its paid position remains available to assign to another project.

## Cancellation

Canceling Core takes effect at the end of the paid period. At that time, every project becomes read-only and new subscriber Chat messages stop. Historical project data remains accessible. You can undo a scheduled cancellation before renewal.

Use **Settings → Billing** to manage project access, usage, overage protection, cancellation, payment methods, and invoices.