Shut down
Relay.app has shut down. In its own words: “Relay.app shut down in September 2026. All accounts, workflows, and run history have been permanently deleted.” (Relay.app, archived).
It is no longer in the Index’s current view or its calculations. Its last published record stays in Edition 1, which was observed before the exit. The prices below are the last on record and no longer apply.
- Jan 2025 Rung 3 · Hard allotment
- Until the exit Rung 3 · Hard allotment
- September 2026 Shut down
Shut down in September 2026 — pattern until then: Incumbent bolt-on.
The short version A usage meter was bolted onto a seat you already pay for — the subscription is no longer the whole bill.
The verdict
Relay.app is a step-metered automation product that bolted an AI-credit meter onto its existing step model in September 2024. Across the window it has run a dual hard-allotment system: every step consumes a step credit, AI steps additionally consume AI credits, and when either meter empties the workflow is blocked until you manually buy a top-up pack — the docs say plainly to purchase more in billing settings, with no auto-billed overage and no fair-use framing. The pricing model never traversed rungs between January 2025 and today; what moved was the dollar level — by October 2025 Pro rose from $9 to $19/mo, Team from $59 to $69, the annual discount doubled to 50%, and the published top-up ladder extended. A stable hard allotment, repriced.
Last pricing on record
As published on Relay.app's own pages · captured Jun 29, 2026. Unit: step. No longer offered.
| Plan | Price / mo | Included | At zero | Top-up vs plan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 200 | Unstated | None |
| Professional | $38 | 750 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
| Team | $118 | 1,500 | Hard stop | Yes · price hidden |
- Credit ↔ dollar
- Not pegged — a credit is not a fixed $
- Model choice
- You pick the model
- Free tier
- 200 credits, per month
- Billing
- Monthly or annual · 50% off annual
- Included credits
- Unstated
- Purchased credits
- Expire each cycle
What changed
- Sep 27, 2026 · Policy change · Relay.app shut down: 'Relay.app shut down in September 2026. All accounts, workflows, and run history have been permanently deleted.' (notice archived 27 September 2026). It leaves the Index's current view; its last record stays in Edition 1. (archive)
- Oct 28, 2025 · Price change · Upward reprice (visible by Oct 2025, unchanged Jan 2026): Pro $9->$19/mo, Team $59->$69/mo with 10 users; annual discount 20%->50%; paid-tier AI credit grants raised to 5,000/mo but Pro steps cut 1,500->750; full top-up ladder published (10K AI credits=$19 ... 1,000,000=$1,199; step ladder to 1,000,000). Same hard-allotment mechanics. (archive)
- Apr 1, 2025 · Policy change · March 2025 update added per-workflow/per-run Step & AI-credit usage tracking columns (visibility only) — no pricing, limit, or exhaustion-behavior change.
- Sep 26, 2024 · Meter adopted · Relay introduced free monthly AI credits as a second meter on top of its existing step meter (500 free AI credits/mo on Free), spanning GPT/Gemini/Claude/DALL-E; run-out resolved by topping up via the billing page.
Sourced from Relay.app's official pricing pages and archived snapshots. Primary: pricing page. Method & limits: Methodology & data.