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Plans & billing

LightNow uses a layered plan model:

  • User-level plans – for individual usage.
  • Tenant-level plans – for organizations and team-wide governance.

Billing is handled via Stripe in the SaaS offering and via separate agreements for dedicated deployments.

User-level plans​

Free​

The Free plan is the default when you create a user account.

You get:

  • Access to the public registry,
  • Ability to browse MCP servers and view basic trust information,
  • A default Runtime Profile for integration config,
  • Ability to mark favorites on user level.

Limitations:

  • No advanced governance,
  • No tenant-specific features,
  • No dedicated SLAs.

Standard​

The Standard plan is for professional users.

Additional to Free:

  • Extended detail on trust score and evaluation,
  • Access to private registry features (depending on environment),
  • Multiple personal runtime profiles,
  • Priority for new features focused on individual power users.

Pricing:

  • 8 EUR / month, billed annually as 96 EUR / year.

Upgrade path:

  1. Go to the Pricing page in the UI.
  2. In the Standard column, click Upgrade to Standard.
  3. Complete the Stripe Checkout flow.
  4. On success, your user account plan is set to standard.

Plan downgrades are scheduled in the LightNow billing UI. Your Standard plan stays active until the end of the current billing period.

Billing details, invoices and payment methods are managed via the Stripe customer portal, which you can open from your profile or billing section.

Tenant-level plans​

Tenant plans apply to organizations (tenants), not directly to users.

Enterprise​

The Enterprise plan is for organization-wide usage:

Includes everything from user plans plus:

  • Organization workspaces with custom subdomains (e.g. acme.lightnow.ai),
  • SSO / identity provider federation (for example OIDC or SAML),
  • Tenant branding (logo and colors),
  • Organization Runtime Profiles with role availability and server allowlists,
  • Shared tenant favorites and settings,
  • Basis for policies & governance on tenant level.

Pricing:

  • 249 EUR / month, billed annually as 2988 EUR / year.

Typical flow:

  1. A user with sufficient permissions creates an organization via the wizard in their profile.
  2. The tenant is provisioned in the Admin-API, Registry-API and identity layer.
  3. The organization billing page starts Enterprise Stripe Checkout.
  4. Stripe webhooks activate the Enterprise plan after checkout.
  5. Downgrades are scheduled from the organization billing page and take effect at the end of the current billing period.

Enterprise Dedicated​

Enterprise Dedicated is for organizations that want a dedicated deployment or BYOC/on-prem setup.

In addition to Enterprise:

  • Dedicated or isolated deployment environment,
  • Extended customization options,
  • Custom SLAs and security requirements.

The upgrade is not handled via self-service Stripe Checkout.
Organizations interested in Enterprise Dedicated typically:

  • Start with an Enterprise tenant,
  • Then contact the LightNow team to discuss deployment and commercial terms.

How billing is implemented (SaaS)​

On the SaaS side, billing is backed by Stripe:

  • For user-level Standard plans:

    • LightNow creates or reuses a Stripe customer for the user.
    • A subscription to the Standard product/price is created via Checkout.
    • Webhooks update the Admin-API about subscription state.
    • The Admin-API propagates plan changes to other components.

  • For tenant-level Enterprise plans:

    • The Admin-API tracks which tenant is on which plan.
    • The tenant creation wizard can include an Enterprise upgrade gate.
    • Stripe is used to collect payments for the tenant, and the plan is updated accordingly.

In the LightNow UI:

  • The Pricing page is the primary entrypoint for personal Standard upgrades.
  • Organization billing pages are the primary entrypoint for tenant Enterprise upgrades.
  • The Profile page and organization billing pages show current plan, billing state, pending downgrade state and period end.
  • The Stripe customer portal is available for:
    • update payment methods,
    • view invoices,
    • customer self-service that does not replace LightNow's primary plan change UI.

Next steps​

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