Two things decide what Crossfyre costs you, and they are cleanly separate: your plan and your credits. The plan is a flat subscription that sets your limits and unlocks capabilities. Scanning within those limits is unlimited, with no per-scan fee and no metered minutes. Credits are a separate wallet that fuels AI features, which are coming soon. This post untangles the two so it is obvious what you are actually paying for.
The plan is what you pay for
Your plan sets ceilings, how many nodes and proxies you can register, how many workspaces you get, how many workflows run at once, how much wordlist storage, and which capabilities are unlocked (routines, missions, adaptive rate limiting, priority execution). Free, Pro and Reaper differ on those numbers and features; organizations add seats, teams and shared workspaces. You upgrade when you hit a ceiling, not because a meter ran up.
Scanning is free within your plan
Recon and scanning run on your own nodes, the machines you enrol. Crossfyre orchestrates them; it does not bill you per scan, per operation, or per minute. Run as many workflows as your concurrency and monthly limits allow, as often as you like, at no additional charge. There is no usage bill for subdomain enumeration, content discovery, or port scanning.
Contrast this with the usual DIY approach: rent a fleet of cloud boxes, install scanners, and pay for instance-hours. There the meter runs for every minute a box is on, including the minutes it spent crashing, the full rerun after a crash, idle time hung against a rate-limiting target, and the box you forgot to tear down. Crossfyre replaces that with a flat plan and compute you already own.
You pay a flat plan for your limits and capabilities. Scanning within them is unlimited, not metered.
The Crossfyre billing model, in one sentence
Credits are a separate wallet, for AI
Credits do not pay for scanning. They are the fuel for AI-powered features, chiefly Valkyrie, the upcoming layer that adds intel and context to findings and cuts false positives. Valkyrie is on the roadmap, not live yet, so credits are dormant today. We ship the wallet now so the moment AI lands you are ready, not stuck behind a billing change.
Your plan pre-loads a batch of credits each billing term (Free gets a small monthly grant; Pro and Reaper get progressively larger ones), and you can buy more any time, independent of the plan.
Grants refresh, top-ups never expire
The per-term grant is refreshed on each renewal: use it or lose it. Credits you buy as a top-up never expire and stack on top. So a heavy month can lean on a top-up, and anything you purchase carries forward indefinitely.
Personal accounts and prepaid orgs simply pause AI usage when the balance hits zero, rather than running up a charge, so there is never a surprise bill. Postpaid (Enterprise) orgs can accrue usage up to a set limit and are invoiced.
What about a crashed or cancelled scan?
Because scanning is not metered, a node dying mid-run, an operation timing out, or you cancelling halfway costs you nothing, there is no per-scan charge to refund in the first place. Crossfyre still runs crash-safe orchestration (work is redelivered to another node and resumes where it left off), but that is about reliability and clean results, not billing. The mechanics are in how scans survive a crashed node.
That is the whole model: a flat plan for your limits and capabilities, unlimited scanning within them, and a separate, never-expiring-when-purchased credit wallet reserved for AI. For the per-plan limits and prices, see pricing.
Start on the Free plan, run unlimited scans within your limits, and upgrade only when you hit a ceiling.
See pricing