Team Billing and Seats

Scholarly Teams is billed per seat, centrally, through Stripe. This page covers pricing, monthly vs yearly, how seats work, and how owners and admins manage billing.

Pricing

• Monthly: $45 per seat / month.
• Yearly: $324 per seat / year (40% off vs monthly).
• Self-serve: start with 1 seat, grow to 29 seats yourself.
• Larger teams: email hello@scholarly.so for more seats, schools, districts, or invoicing.

Exact current terms are always shown at checkout. Product overview: Teams and Enterprise and Scholarly for Teams.

What a seat includes

Each seat is one active team member. That person gets:

• Every paid Scholarly feature unlocked.
• Premium / Enterprise AI models your admins enable.
• Their own 450 AI credits per week (not a shared pool).

Adding a seat adds another person with their own weekly credits — it does not increase anyone else's allowance. See How AI Credits Work.

Monthly vs yearly

You choose a billing period when you create the team. Owners and admins can later switch between monthly and yearly in the Stripe customer portal (opened from Team → Billing & usage → Manage billing).

Yearly is billed up front for the year and saves 40%. Monthly renews each month until you cancel or change the plan.

Adding seats

When you need more people:

1. Open the Team page.
2. Check Available seats. If you have open seats, invite into them.
3. If you need more capacity, open Manage billing and add seats in Stripe.
4. New seats are billed on the same plan (prorated as Stripe shows at checkout).
5. Invite teammates into the newly available seats.

You can't send more invites than you have open seats — buy seats first, then invite. See Managing Your Team.

Seats panel at a glance

On the Team page:

• Used — seats filled by active members.
• Purchased — seats you're paying for.
• Available — open seats ready for invites.
• Pending — invites sent but not yet accepted.

Removing a member frees their seat for someone else.

Stripe portal, payment methods, and invoices

Owners and Admins can open the Stripe portal from Team → Billing & usage → Manage billing. There you can:

• Add or remove seats.
• Update the payment method.
• Switch monthly ↔ yearly (when available).
• Download invoices and receipts.
• Cancel the team subscription if needed.

Members without admin rights do not manage billing.

Roles and billing

You can be an active member of only one team at a time.

Moving from Free or Ultimate

Switching from an individual plan to Teams is covered in Switching to a Team Plan. Individual (non-team) billing lives in Billing and Subscriptions.

Related

• Getting Started with Teams — create a team, invite, first shared library.
• Managing Your Team — seats, invites, roles, model access.
• Teams and Enterprise — plan overview.