Pricing is the part of a product most companies write in the vaguest language they can get away with. I want to do the opposite. I cannot put exact dollar figures in a blog post and promise they will still be right when you read it, because prices change and a stale number is worse than no number. What I can do is explain how the pricing is built, why it is built that way, and where to find the live figures. If you want the current numbers first, the pricing page always has them. If you want to understand what you are looking at when you get there, read on.
Two products, one philosophy
wrxstack sells two things. Atlas is an AI work platform that holds a team's work in one system and gives it an assistant that can act on that work. Portfolio turns a resume into a personal website in about a minute. They serve different people and they are priced differently, but the thinking underneath is the same across both.
The rule I hold myself to is that price should track value, and value should track use. A person who barely touches a product should not be paying as if they run their whole company on it, and a team that has moved its real work into Atlas is getting far more out of it than someone who signed up to look around. Pricing that ignores that difference is either too expensive for the light user or too cheap to sustain the heavy one. So the tiers exist to line up what you pay with what you actually get.
Why there is a free tier at all
The free tier is not a demo with the useful parts removed. It exists because of a specific belief: you cannot judge a work platform from a marketing page or a scripted tour. You judge it by moving one real workflow into it and seeing whether the assistant genuinely removes work or just adds another place to check. That test requires doing actual work, so the free tier has to allow actual work.
For Portfolio, the free tier lets you build a real site from your real resume and see it, so you can decide whether it beats the document you already have before you spend anything. For Atlas, it lets a person or a very small team run a genuine slice of their work through the system. In both cases the free tier is the honest way in, and I would rather you start there than take my word for any of this. It is also, frankly, the most useful sales tool I have, because the product is more convincing than a page describing it.
What the paid tiers are actually for
Paid tiers are where the product supports itself, and I will not pretend otherwise. But the design principle is that you move up a tier because you have outgrown the one below, not because you got trapped by a feature you did not know was missing. Growth in usage, more people, more work in the system, more of the assistant doing real jobs, is the thing that moves you up. That is the fair version of usage-based pricing: the bill grows when the value grows, and it is legible on the way up.
The paid tiers add the things a serious user or a team needs as they lean on the product harder. That includes the controls that matter when more than one person is involved: single sign-on through SAML or OIDC so people log in with your existing identity system, and an audit log so you can see who did what. It includes room to run more of your work through the assistant. For teams that want to point the assistant at their own model, bring your own model is part of the picture too. None of this is a surprise fee. It is what the higher tiers are for.
| Tier | Who it fits | What changes as you move up |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Anyone testing whether the product fits, and light individual use. | Enough to do real work and judge the product honestly. |
| Paid, individual or small team | People and teams who have moved real work into the product. | More capacity, more of the assistant working, and team controls. |
| Paid, higher usage | Teams running a meaningful share of their work through Atlas. | SSO, audit log, more assistant capacity, and options like BYOM. |
Structure only. The current tiers, names, and prices live on the pricing page and inside the product.
Why the numbers live inside the product
Plans and prices belong to the product, not to a marketing page frozen at the moment I wrote it. When you are signed in, the plan you can move to is shown to you in context, with what it includes and what it costs, at the point where the decision actually matters. That is deliberate. A pricing page that drifts out of date is a small dishonesty, and the way to avoid it is to let the product be the source of truth for what you can buy right now.
This is also why this post points you to the pricing page for figures rather than quoting them. I would rather send you to the number that is current than write one here that ages badly. If you have read anything else on this blog, you will know I treat that kind of accuracy as part of the product, not a nicety. I even wrote a whole piece on why pricing is a product decision, not a finance one, and this is that belief in practice.
The promise: no dark patterns
A dark pattern is a design choice that quietly works against you: a cancel button hidden three menus deep, a free trial that silently converts to an annual charge, a downgrade path that is technically present but practically impossible, a price that only appears after you have handed over a card. I will not build any of those into wrxstack. That is not a slogan, it is a constraint I hold on purpose, and here is what it means concretely.
You can see what a tier costs before you commit to it. You can move down as easily as you moved up, because a company that makes leaving hard has stopped competing on the product and started competing on friction. You will not be billed for a jump in usage without being able to see it coming. And I will not dangle a capability I do not have to close a sale. If wrxstack does not do something, the honest answer is that it does not do it, which is the same standard I hold across the rest of this site. You can read what the products genuinely are, without the gloss, in the honest introduction to wrxstack.
What pricing does not buy you
It is worth being just as clear about the limits. Paying for a higher tier does not turn wrxstack into an audited enterprise vendor. There is no certification you unlock by spending more, because there are no certifications to unlock today. A higher tier does not come with a large support organization or guaranteed response times, because there is one person here and no amount of money changes that. If your procurement process requires those things, no tier solves it, and I would rather say so plainly than let a price imply otherwise.
What paying does buy is more of a product that already does what it says: more capacity, the controls a team needs, and the direct support of the person who wrote the code. For a lot of people and small teams, that is exactly the trade they want. For some organizations it is not enough yet, and the pricing page will not pretend otherwise.
Is the free tier really free, or a limited trial?
It is a real free tier, not a countdown to a charge. It is meant to let you do genuine work and decide whether the product fits before you pay anything. It has limits, which is what separates it from the paid tiers, but it is not a trial that expires and starts billing you.
Why does this post not list exact prices?
Because a number written into a blog post goes stale, and a stale price is worse than none. The current figures are on the pricing page and inside the product, where they are kept accurate. This post explains the structure so those numbers make sense when you see them.
What makes a paid tier worth it?
You move up when you have outgrown the tier below: more people, more work in the system, more of the assistant doing real jobs, and the team controls like SSO and an audit log that matter once more than one person is involved. The bill grows when the value grows.
Can I downgrade or cancel easily?
Yes. Moving down is meant to be as straightforward as moving up. I will not hide the exit or make leaving harder than joining, because that is a dark pattern and I have committed to not building them.
Do Atlas and Portfolio have separate pricing?
Yes. They are different products for different people, so they are priced on their own terms. Both follow the same philosophy: a real free tier, paid tiers that track usage, and current numbers shown in the product.
Who this pricing is not for
If you need a fixed enterprise contract, a negotiated master agreement, or a vendor whose price comes bundled with certifications and a guaranteed support desk, this pricing is not built for you today. It is built for individuals and small teams who want a fair, legible price that grows with their use and no tricks in the fine print. If that is not what you are shopping for, the honest move is to keep looking.