Licensing

Free

The full local productivity layer, no account required:

Tasks, projects, wiki, subtasks, recurrence
All 10 views
All capture surfaces (Quick Add, from selection, wiki stubs)
Drag to reschedule, context menu, status bar
Task cleanup with configurable retention

Pro BYO — $9/month or $89/year

Everything in Free, plus meetings, AI features, MCP server, and CLI. You bring your own API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and Deepgram. You pay providers directly at their published rates.

14-day Pro trial. No credit card required (the trial uses Pensum-managed AI, capped at 3 hours of transcription).

Typical AI costs (BYO)

Smart Capture / Smart Triage: pennies per use
Meeting transcription: ~$0.26/hour via Deepgram Nova-3 (diarization included), ~$0.36/hour via OpenAI Whisper
Summarization + action extraction: ~$0.05 per meeting
Heavy meeting user (15h/week): ~$15-22/month in provider fees

Pro All-in-One — $29/month or $279/year

Everything in Pro, with AI included. No API keys to manage, no separate provider billing. One price, one bill, zero setup.

Includes 40 hours per month of managed transcription with speaker diarization (Deepgram Nova-3). Overage is $0.05/min, or switch a specific feature to your own Deepgram key. Text AI is unmetered for normal use; daily safety caps (8h soft, 12h hard) apply only to extreme usage.

Pencils out cheaper than BYO + provider fees at roughly 8+ hours/week of meetings.

14-day Pro trial. No credit card required.

Activating Pro

Purchase at pensum.dev
You’ll receive a license key via email (format: PENSUM-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX)
Open Settings > Pensum > License
Enter your key and click Validate
Pro features unlock immediately

License details

Each key supports up to 5 devices
License validates with our server every 7 days
30-day offline grace period if the server is unreachable
Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period
Annual plans billed upfront (2 months free vs monthly)