Socria One
The free tier, the $15/month subscription, access codes, and how billing behaves.
The two plans#
Socria has one paid plan: Socria One, $15/month. It opens the complete reasoning environment — all four depth modes, Thinking Maps with unbounded branching and every lens, Research across the whole map as often as it’s needed, Draft Space, and unlimited lines of thinking with full history. Core 2 is not part of the paywall at all — it stays free, account or no account.
You subscribe from the Socria One page or from any boundary inside Logos. Payment runs through Stripe Checkout; cancelling, changing card and reading invoices happen in Stripe’s own billing portal — Socria deliberately has no home-grown cancellation flow to navigate.
What the free tier holds#
The free tier is a working trial of the whole loop, not a demo. Its exact shape:
| Limit | Free | Socria One |
|---|---|---|
| Lines of thinking kept at once | 2 | Unlimited |
| Nodes a map grows to | 4 | Unbounded |
| Research runs per conversation | 1 | As often as needed |
| Thinking depth | Balanced | All four modes |
| Map lenses | The map’s lead lens | All seven |
| Draft Space | — | Included |
What is never gated#
Two capabilities are free at every tier, permanently, because charging for them would make the product dishonest:
- Trace — seeing where a thought on your map came from, in your own quoted words. You can always audit your own reasoning.
- Correction — telling Logos it read you wrong. You can always fix the record.
The Answer Guard’s “Show solution” door belongs on this list too: revealing an answer you are working toward is never a paid action.
Access codes#
Socria One can also be opened with a typed access code — the same mechanism as the Core 3.1 access key. A code is a soft gate, not a secret: it ships in the client bundle, and it exists for handing out (teams, friends, promotions), not for security.
- Typed while signed out
- Unlocks One in that browser, stored locally.
- Typed while signed in
- Also redeemed to the account (via
/api/logos/redeem), so it follows you across devices. Codes are case-insensitive. - Comp grants
- A deployment can grant One to specific accounts with no billing attached — by user id or email. A comp’d person who later subscribes for real gets a normal Stripe relationship; a comp is never allowed to overwrite one.
How billing behaves#
Stripe is the source of truth for paid subscriptions, and its signed webhook events are the only writer of Stripe lifecycle state. Socria itself writes just two other kinds of row: a pre-checkout customer stub (status incomplete, which never entitles anyone) and complimentary grants from redeemed codes. The rules the projection enforces:
- Cancelling keeps access until the paid month runs out. Someone who cancels on the 3rd has paid through the period; access ends at the period’s end, not at the moment of cancelling.
- A failed renewal does not lock you out. The
past_duestate stays entitled — a card problem is a billing conversation, not a reason to interrupt thinking you are in the middle of. - Nothing entitles by accident. Abandoned checkouts, expired subscriptions and unknown states all resolve to the free tier.
For operators: the pricing is configured server-side (the client can never name its own price), webhook requests are signature-verified with replay protection, and the exact setup lives in the technical reference.