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An all-in-one assistant that sits on top of any web page — many frontier models in one browser sidebar, entry-priced by the year
A bargain multi-model sidebar for a browser-bound founder — the catch is annual-only billing and a second premium-credit meter behind the headline price.
Monica puts a multi-model assistant in a browser sidebar over any page — summarising, translating, drafting and researching where you already work, for an annual price below most monthly rivals.
You live in the browser, want OpenAI, Anthropic and Google models in one cheap subscription, and are comfortable committing for a year at Pro's $99.
You need monthly billing, team workspaces or office-file grounding — Monica is a personal, browser-first assistant with credit meters, not a workspace platform.
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Starts A long article, supplier page or document is open in the browser
You get A summary or rewrite without leaving the page
Reading and drafting help arrives where the work already is
Starts A quick rewrite needs a basic model; a hard planning question needs an advanced one
You get Answers matched to the difficulty of the question
Several model families without several $20 subscriptions
Starts A contract, report or manual arrives as a PDF
You get Answers grounded in the document
Approval Check consequential clauses in the original before acting on them
Long documents stop needing a full read before the first decision
Use the free basic-model pool for a week of real browsing work and see how fast 40 uses a day disappears.
Pro allows 200 advanced queries a month — if your hard questions exceed that weekly, budget on Max instead.
Only take the $99 Pro year once the meters fit; there is no published monthly plan to fall back on.
Time to first useful result: Under 1 hour · no-code 5/5
Free with a daily basic-model limit; Pro $99/year (about $8.30/month) is the entry paid tier; Max $199/year on sale (list $299/year, about $16.60/month) removes query caps; Ultra $995/year (about $82.90/month) for the largest credit pool. Annual billing only on the published page.
$0
Flat / month · $0/mo for one person
$99/year (about $8.30/month)
Flat / month · $8.3/mo for one person
$199/year on sale (list $299/year; about $16.60/month at the sale price)
Flat / month · $16.6/mo for one person
$995/year (about $82.90/month)
Flat / month · $82.9/mo for one person
| Plan | Published price | Solo monthly | Billed by | Limits & overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | $0/mo | Flat / month | 40 basic-model uses per day, per dated reads of the official pricing page; no advanced-model queries |
| Pro (billed annually)Solo pick | $99/year (about $8.30/month) | $8.3/mo | Flat / month | Annual billing — no published month-to-month price · Advanced-model cap is the binding limit for hard questions |
| Max (billed annually) | $199/year on sale (list $299/year; about $16.60/month at the sale price) | $16.6/mo | Flat / month | Sale price has no published end date; renewal terms should be checked at checkout · Premium credits still meter heavy features |
| Ultra (billed annually) | $995/year (about $82.90/month) | $82.9/mo | Flat / month | A power tier — priced far above a solo founder's normal need · Vendor notes Max and Ultra rules and pricing may be adjusted as model-provider costs change |
The jump is annual and two-metered: Pro's $99 year looks cheap until advanced queries (200/month) or premium credits (1,500/month) run out, and the next rung is Max at $199 on sale — $299 at list — committed for another year.
Price record · 2026-11-08: Checked 2026-11-08 on monica.im/pricing: this run's extraction read the page's FAQ in full — confirming Max (formerly Unlimited) remains in beta testing, that Max and Ultra rules and pricing may be adjusted as OpenAI and Anthropic costs change, personal-use-only accounts, and that free users have a daily usage limit — but the plan-card figures do not extract as text. The figures recorded (Free $0 with 40 basic uses/day; Pro $99/year with 5,000 basic + 200 advanced queries and 1,500 premium credits a month; Max $199/year sale, list $299, unlimited queries and 4,500 credits; Ultra $995/year with 20,000 credits) are corroborated by multiple dated reads of the same official page on 2026-11-05, 2026-11-06 and 2026-11-07. Variant note: paid plans are published on annual billing; the per-month figures are annual equivalents, and no working monthly price is published on the page.
The same fields on every deep listing in this job, so agents compare field by field. “Not verified” means our research has not confirmed it yet — it never means “doesn't have it.”
Monica is the assistant for a founder who does not want to change tools at all: it lives in a browser extension and sidebar, so it can summarise, translate, explain, rewrite and draft on whatever page is already open — an inbox, a supplier site, a document, a video. One subscription unlocks a shelf of models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, split honestly on its pricing page into basic models for everyday work and advanced models for harder questions, plus tools for chat with PDFs, image and video generation, deep research and an AI agent. The free plan is a sampler, capped at a small daily pool of basic-model uses with no advanced-model access. Pro, the realistic entry, is sold by the year: it lifts the basic allowance into the thousands per month, adds a few hundred advanced-model queries a month and a monthly pool of premium credits that the heavier features — research, agent runs, media generation — draw on. Max removes the query caps on both model groups in exchange for roughly double the annual price, and Ultra is a power tier with a much larger credit pool. Two pricing habits need stating plainly. First, the paid ladder is effectively annual: the monthly figures you will see quoted are the annual prices divided by twelve, and no working month-to-month price is published on the pricing page. Second, query counts and premium credits are separate meters, so a month heavy on agent or media work can run down credits while ordinary chat still looks unlimited. For a solo founder who lives in the browser and wants several frontier models without several $20 subscriptions, that trade is often worth it; for someone who needs team workspaces, office-suite grounding or predictable monthly billing, a mainstream assistant is the safer buy.
Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. A five-minute browser install and a very low annual entry carry it; annual-only billing and the dual query/credit meters are recorded honestly in the verdict.
The difference: Another multi-model subscription, at $19.99/month on a points meter with monthly billing — the catch is heavy models burn points fast where Monica meters queries and credits.
The difference: A single-vendor assistant with custom GPTs, scheduled tasks and Codex at $20/month — the catch is one model family and a monthly price roughly 2.4x Monica Pro's annual equivalent.
The difference: A research-first answer engine with citations at $17-$20/month — the catch is it is built for search answers, not a sidebar that drafts and translates on any page.
Free is $0 with a daily basic-model limit. Pro is $99/year (about $8.30/month) and is the realistic solo plan; Max is $199/year on sale (list $299/year) and Ultra is $995/year. The directory's True Solo Cost is $8.30 low and $8.30 typical, both on Pro billed annually.
No monthly price is published on Monica's pricing page — paid plans are sold on annual billing, and the per-month figures quoted for Monica are the annual prices divided by twelve. Budget on the annual commitment, not a monthly trial.
They are separate meters. Pro includes 5,000 basic-model and 200 advanced-model queries a month, plus 1,500 premium credits that heavier features such as research, agent runs and media generation draw on — so a heavy feature month can run down credits while ordinary chat remains available.
The vendor's own pricing FAQ says the Max plan (formerly Unlimited) remains in beta testing, with all previous benefits retained, and that Max and Ultra rules and pricing may be adjusted as model-provider costs change. That is stated here so buyers weigh it before choosing Max over Pro.
Monica is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.
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