Monica's Free Tier: How Far the Daily Queries Go, and Is an AI Aggregator Worth Paying For? (2026)

Key numbers

Free tier: Yes
Cheapest paid plan: US$8.3/mo and up
Free quota: US$0: 40 standard-model uses per day on a shared quota across Claude …
Last checked: 2026-10-24

Article last updated: 2026-09-06

VerifiedMonica2026-10-24Latest verified price2026-10-24Pro US$8.30 (annual, per month) · Max US$16.60 (annual, per month) · Ultra US$82.90 (annual, per month)

Monica is a browser-extension AI assistant whose pitch is “one subscription, many vendors’ models.” Judging it requires two things: understanding how the free 40 queries are counted, and noticing that “unlimited” and “advanced credits” are two separate meters.

Read from the official pricing page on 2026-09-06.

Free (US$0)

40 basic-model accesses per day, where the basic models listed on the day are Claude 4.5 Haiku, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and GPT-5.4 mini — sharing one allowance.
Image and video generation: limited trial.
ChatPDF: limited trial. AI Agent: limited trial.
Basic-model writing, translation and summarisation: included.
Cross-platform assistant and app integrations: included.

Forty a day is not stingy for lookups, translations and page summaries. The real ceiling is that they all run on small models — long-form reasoning, coding and complex synthesis will feel thin. That, not the count, is the limit.

Paid tiers (page displayed annual pricing)

Plan	Yearly (per month)	Billed yearly	Highlights
Pro	US$8.3	US$99	5,000 basic queries/month, 200 advanced queries/month, 1,500 advanced credits
Max	US$16.6	US$199 (page shows US$299 list, 33% flash sale)	Unlimited basic and advanced models, 4,500 advanced credits
Ultra	US$82.9	US$995	Unlimited basic and advanced, 20,000 advanced credits

Advanced models listed on the day: GPT-5.5, Claude 4.6 Sonnet, Gemini 3.1 Pro. Image and video generation runs on Nano Banana 2, GPT Image 2, Sora 2 and Veo 3.

The part to read carefully: Max and Ultra both say unlimited advanced models, yet each also carries a credit figure (4,500 / 20,000). Structurally, “unlimited” covers conversational use while credits cover heavy features — image and video generation, Deep Research, Create Slides, Browser Operator. Credits are the real difference between those two tiers. The page does not publish per-feature credit costs, so we don’t estimate them.

Evidence note: the page showed annual pricing only; monthly list prices were not displayed, matching what we found in August.

When an aggregator makes sense — and when it doesn’t

It fits if you use AI incidentally all over the browser (translate a selection, summarise a page, rewrite an email); you want to compare vendors’ answers without three subscriptions; or you need image/video generation only occasionally.

Go direct to one vendor if your heavy work lives inside one flagship model and its exclusive features (coding agents, project workspaces, deep research); you need full official context windows and day-one features — an aggregator decides which models it exposes and how far; or you care about data flow, since another platform is another data processor whose terms you should read.

Thirty-second version

Free: 40/day, small models only. Fine for odd jobs, thin for real work.
Pro: buys volume (5,000 + 200) for daily but light use.
Max: buys “unlimited” plus 4,500 credits — the sweet spot for most heavy users.
Ultra: 20,000 credits; only worth it if you generate media or run agents at scale.

Official link: https://monica.im/pricing

On this site: Monica tool page

Figures read from the live pricing page on 2026-09-06 with a rendering browser. Prices and limits change; the vendor’s checkout page is authoritative.