Per-seat plans with pooled governed runs. Every tier — including Individual — ships the full fail-closed gate chain, cost caps, and the tamper-evident Trust Ledger. You never pay extra for the ability to govern.
14-day Team trial · no credit card · hard caps fail-closed at 100% (402)
Individual and Team are self-serve — start today. Business is sized to your fleet, environments, and audit demands.
$192/user billed annually
For builders automating their own work.
$384/user billed annually
For teams shipping agents together.
Annual agreement
For organizations that need governance at scale.
14-day full-featured Team trial · no credit card · prices exclusive of tax · run allowances pool across the workspace, overage bills per run in arrears
Agents do work in governed runs. Here's exactly how the meter behaves — before procurement has to ask.
Every invocation passes the 8-gate chain and lands in the ledger — executed, held, or blocked. That's one run.
On Team, 2,000 runs per user merge into one workspace allowance. Heavy operators draw from the pool — nobody hits a personal wall.
Past the allowance, runs bill per run in arrears at the published rate in your console. The meter warns early; workflows never stop mid-run.
On most platforms, controls are an enterprise upsell. On Cortex, you cannot run an agent without the full gate chain — on every plan, including Individual. You pay for governed compute, never for the ability to govern it.
The governance runtime is identical across plans — what scales is agents, pooled runs, workflow depth, identity controls, deployment, and support.
| Feature | Individual | Team Most popular | Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skills library | |||
| Core skills catalog + library installs | |||
| Premium & verified skills | |||
| Private team skills with versioning | |||
| Curated org catalog + approval policies | |||
| Agents & Studio | |||
| Active agents | 5 | 25 / member | Unlimited |
| Shared studio (drafts, review, versioning) | |||
| Team templates | |||
| Sandbox + staging environments | |||
| Runs & Workflows | |||
| Included governed runs / month | 500 | 2,000 / user, pooled | Custom, pooled |
| Overage | Per run, in arrears | Per run, in arrears | Volume commitments |
| Workflows | Manual triggers | Scheduled + event + approvals | Cross-team orchestration |
| Human-in-the-loop approval steps | |||
| Governance & security (runtime included in every plan) | |||
| Fail-closed gate chain (8 gates) | |||
| Tamper-evident Trust Ledger | |||
| Audit trail retention | 30 days | 90 days | Custom + SIEM export |
| SSO | Google & Microsoft | SAML/OIDC + SCIM | |
| RBAC | Workspace roles | Fine-grained + policies | |
| Data residency · VPC / air-gapped | |||
| Integrations & support | |||
| Connectors | Standard | Premium + API | Custom-built |
| Support | Community + email | Priority | Dedicated CSM |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% | ||
| Security-review concierge | |||
You pay for governed compute, not just successful output. Held and blocked attempts still produce a ledger entry — that's the point.
Passed all 8 gates, acted, and wrote a signed receipt to the ledger.
Stopped at an oversight gate for human approval — recorded, replayable, awaiting sign-off.
Denied at a gate — 402 over budget, 403 out of policy, 409 on conflict.
Regulated enterprises deploy Cortex in their own boundary: VPC, on-premise, or fully air-gapped, with data residency pinned per tenant and the Trust Ledger intact. Your security reviewers get a concierge, not a PDF chase.
A run is one governed agent invocation that passes through the 8-gate chain and produces a ledger entry — whether it executes, is held for human approval, or is blocked (402/403/409). Example: an agent that reads a claim, drafts a summary, and proposes a payout is one run; if the payout crosses your approval threshold and waits for sign-off, it is still one run.
Nothing stops mid-workflow. Runs past your included allowance bill per run, in arrears, at the published overage rate shown in your plan console — and your usage meter warns you well before you get there. There are no prepaid credit walls and no mid-run cutoffs.
Pick a usage expansion on the plan card — 5× or 10× the included runs per seat, on the same plan with the same governance. 10× is priced sub-linearly (10× the usage for 9× the price). Switch tiers anytime; changes prorate to your billing cycle, and per-run overage remains available past any tier.
Yes. On Team, every member's 2,000 monthly runs pool into one workspace allowance — heavy operators draw from headroom that lighter users leave. Business plans size a custom pooled commitment with volume discounts.
No. Your prompts, documents, and run outputs are never used to train models — on any plan. Business adds contractual no-training guarantees, custom retention, and data-residency controls.
Governance is never an add-on. The fail-closed gate chain — Agent IAM, cost caps, guardrails, policy-as-code, oversight modes, and the tamper-evident Trust Ledger — is included in every plan, including Individual. You cannot run an agent on Cortex without it.
Add seats any time — they prorate to your billing cycle from the day they activate. Removed seats stay usable until the cycle ends and stop billing at renewal. Mixing plan changes mid-cycle prorates the difference; you never pay twice for the same period.
The trial is 14 days of the full Team plan — shared studio, pooled runs, oversight console, SSO — with no credit card required. When it ends you pick a plan; nothing is deleted while you decide.
Team includes Google and Microsoft single sign-on. Business adds SAML/OIDC, SCIM provisioning, and fine-grained RBAC mapped to your identity provider's groups.
Yes — on Business. Single-tenant, VPC, on-premise, and air-gapped deployments are supported, with data residency pinning. Signed Solution Packs verify by hash and signature offline, so governed solutions install into environments with no outbound connectivity.
Cortex is built for and aligned with SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, GDPR, the EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, and FINRA. We are not making certification claims on this page — visit the Trust Center for current attestation status and security documentation.
“We budgeted for a governance project on top of the platform cost. With Cortex there wasn't one — the controls our auditors wanted shipped on day one, on the plan we already had.”
14 days of the full Team plan, no credit card. When you're ready for residency, SSO/SCIM, or air-gapped deployment — talk to sales.