> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.coveapp.cc/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Plans and billing
> How Cove is charged, who is allowed to change it, and what happens if a payment fails.
Cove is billed per workspace, not per person. Adding your team to a workspace
doesn't change what you pay.
## Plans
| Plan | Price |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Starter | Free |
| Essential | \$8 / month |
| Professional | \$15 / month |
| One-time | \$150 once, Professional on that workspace for good |
The one-time option has nothing to renew and nothing to cancel — it keeps that
workspace on Professional for as long as it exists.
## Discounts
| Discount | Amount | Applies |
| ------------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------------- |
| Paying yearly | 10% | When you choose a yearly cycle |
| Starter Group | 10% | Automatically, if your group is under 1,000 members |
They stack. The checkout page shows the real total before you pay, read back
from Stripe rather than worked out separately, so it is what will actually be
charged.
## Who can change it
Only the workspace owner. Not co-owners, and no department permission grants
it.
That is deliberate. A co-owner runs the workspace, but the card belongs to one
person, and cancelling a subscription somebody else is being charged for isn't
a workspace setting. If billing needs to move to somebody else, workspace
ownership has to move with it.
## If a payment fails
The workspace carries on through a grace period rather than shutting off the
moment a card is declined — a failed renewal is usually an expired card, not a
decision to leave. If it isn't resolved by the end of that period the workspace
drops to Starter. Nothing is deleted; the features above Starter stop.
A suspended workspace can still reach billing. Locking somebody out of the
page where they would fix their payment would be charging them for something
they cannot use.
## Where to look
Current prices and what each tier includes.
Everything a co-owner can do, which is all but this.