Genspark pricing

About

Genspark is an all-in-one AI agent workspace — branded “Genspark AI Workspace 4.0” — that bundles a Super Agent alongside productivity agents (AI Slides, AI Sheets, AI Docs, AI Developer, AI Meeting Notes), creative generation (image, video, audio), and tools like Genspark Claw, Workflows, a Chrome extension and the Speakly voice product. The pitch is a single subscription that fronts the latest state-of-the-art models across text, image, video and audio without the user juggling per-model API accounts. It is the flagship product of MainFunc, founded in 2023 by ex-Baidu executives Eric Jing (former Baidu VP and Xiaodu CEO) and Kay Zhu (former Xiaodu CTO), with offices in Palo Alto and Singapore.

Genspark did not start as a workspace. It launched on June 18, 2024 as a free, no-signup AI search engine that generated custom “Sparkpages,” raising a $60M seed the same day (led by Lanchi Ventures, $260M valuation). In April 2025 it pivoted hard, launching the autonomous Super Agent and effectively killing the standalone search product — a move that hit $10M ARR in nine days. A $100M Series A ($530M valuation, early 2025) and a $275M Series B in November 2025 led by Emergence Capital ($1.25B post-money valuation) funded the shift into the AI Workspace. By early 2026 Genspark reported roughly $250M annualized revenue, ~2 million monthly active users and ~100,000 paying seats.

Genspark sells to a wide audience: individuals on Free/Plus/Pro consumer tiers, small and mid-sized teams on a self-serve Team plan, and larger organizations on a contracted Enterprise plan. Across every tier the value metric is credits — a normalized usage unit consumed when agents run and content is generated — layered on top of a recurring subscription, with seats added for the group plans. The company is private and positions against horizontal AI assistants (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude apps) and agent platforms by emphasizing breadth of bundled agents and zero-credit unlimited access to top-tier chat and image models. It advertises SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 certification and offers configurable data residency (US/EU/APAC) on Enterprise.

Pricing summary : How Genspark’s credit-allowance subscription is structured

Genspark uses a credit-based freemium subscription with a per-seat overlay for teams. The model has three dimensions:

1. Credit allowance (the core metric): Every plan grants a monthly (or daily, on Free) pool of credits that resets each cycle and does not roll over. Free = 100 daily credits; Plus = multiple credit tiers starting from 10,000 credits/month; Pro = multiple credit tiers starting from 125,000 credits/month; Team = 12,000 credits/seat/month; Enterprise = 25,000 credits/seat/month. Plus and Pro subscribers pick a credit tier and pay more for higher ceilings.
2. Seats (group plans): Team is $30 per seat per month (2–150 seats, self-serve Stripe); Enterprise is custom-quoted for 151+ seats. Both bill per seat with centralized admin and SSO/SAML.
3. Storage + unlimited add-ons: AI Drive storage scales with tier (50 GB Plus, 1 TB Pro, 60 GB/seat Team). Plus, Pro and Team include unlimited, zero-credit usage of top-tier chat and image models, guaranteed through December 31, 2026. Team admins can buy 10,000-credit Credits Packs for power users.

What makes this different: Genspark prices consumer plans by credit tier rather than a single sticker price, and pairs metered credits with explicitly unlimited zero-credit access to the most popular chat and image models — a hybrid of freemium credit allowance and a time-boxed unlimited promotion.

Pricing by product

Genspark Workspace (Individual / consumer plans)

Genspark for Teams (Business plans)

Credit add-ons & Cloud Computer (Genspark Claw)

Consumer Plus/Pro dollar prices render only inside the signed-in Genspark app, and the help-center “Membership Plans” article publishes credit tiers but no dollar figures — Genspark’s own pricing surfaces never expose the consumer sticker price, so they are recorded here as unknown. Third-party pricing write-ups (Lindy, AffiliateBooster, hiroshi.today) place the Plus entry tier in the mid-twenties of dollars per month (stepping to roughly the mid-seventies at a higher credit tier) and Pro in the low two-hundreds per month; treat these as indicative external estimates, not verified Genspark numbers.

Sales motions across products: PLG / self-serve for Free, Plus, Pro and Team; sales-led for Enterprise.

Hidden costs : What credit tiers and zero-credit promos really cost teams

The headline plan names understate the real bill in three ways: consumer Plus/Pro prices scale with the credit tier you choose (not a single sticker figure), the “unlimited” zero-credit chat and image access is only guaranteed through December 31, 2026, and credit-heavy work — especially video — burns the allowance far faster than the headline numbers suggest.

Archetype 1 — a heavy Plus user who lives in video generation. Genspark’s own help center prices Plus’s entry tier at 10,000 credits/month, but slide decks can cost 100+ credits each and premium video models (Veo 3.1, Seedance Pro, Sora-class) are the most expensive actions on the platform. Community reports describe heavy Plus users exhausting 10,000 credits in two to three weeks; one Trustpilot reviewer reported burning a $25 subscription “in less than two hours.” Until ~March 2026 the fix was a one-time $20 top-up pack (10,000 credits, 3-month validity); Genspark has since removed consumer top-ups, so the only options now are to upgrade the tier or wait for the monthly reset.

Because Genspark gates the dollar figures, the exact spend is unknown from any Genspark surface; third-party write-ups indicate the entry Plus tier sits near ~$25/mo and the next step near ~$75/mo — so the lesson is structural, not a precise dollar quote: a single heavy-video month no longer costs a one-time $20 pack but pushes you onto a permanently higher tier (a roughly 3× step) until you remember to downgrade. This is exactly the agentic-workflow cost-monster dynamic, where a few automated runs quietly consume a month of allowance.

Archetype 2 — a 12-person Team that needs power-user headroom. Team is a clean $30/seat/month, but the per-seat 12,000-credit allocation does not pool across members and does not roll over, so a few power users will run dry while light users leave credits unspent.

The lesson: the flat $30 seat is honest, but non-pooling, non-rolling per-seat credits mean teams over-buy seats or top up with packs, and the pack dollar price is not published outside the signed-in admin console.

Want to estimate your own Genspark bill? Use the Genspark pricing calculator to model your monthly cost based on credit tier, seats and storage.

Pricing evolution : From consumer credit tiers to per-seat Team and Enterprise

Genspark’s pricing history is really a product history: it spent its first nine months as a free AI search engine with no paid plans at all, then introduced credit-based monetization only after the April 2025 Super Agent pivot. Wayback preserves the homepage product evolution (search → agentic workspace) but never archived a single usable snapshot of /pricing, /team_pricing or the help-center plan pages — Genspark gates consumer prices behind sign-in, so the dollar amounts below that come from third parties are flagged as such.

Cadence

Tracked range: 2024-06–2026-06. Quarters not listed (2024 Q3–Q4, 2025 Q3) showed product iteration but no observed pricing-model or tier changes.

Notable changes

• 2024-06-18 — Genspark launches as a free agentic search engine; $60M seed led by Lanchi Ventures (~$260M valuation) announced the same day (TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE). No paid plans.
• 2025-02 — ~$100M Series A at a ~$530M valuation; the search product is at its peak (Sparkpages, Deep Research) but still monetization-free (Sacra).
• 2025-04-02 — Super Agent launch and pivot away from search; this is the inflection that introduced credit-based paid consumer plans. Reached $10M ARR in 9 days (OpenAI).
• 2025-11-20 — $275M Series B led by Emergence Capital (~$1.25B valuation), launched alongside the AI Workspace (BusinessWire).
• ~2026-03-16 — Consumer one-time credit top-up packs removed; the “Add More Credits” button began redirecting to plan upgrades, leaving tier-upgrade-or-wait as the only options (community-reported via hiroshi.today). Team Credits Packs are unaffected.

The search-to-Super-Agent pivot in detail

Genspark is one of the clearest examples in the corpus of a company that changed what it sold and only then changed how it charged. For its first nine months (June 2024 – early 2025) it was a free, ad-free AI search engine: the homepage said “Save time. Better results.”, and the product generated “Sparkpages” — custom AI-written summary pages — with an Autopilot Agent and vertical search across Travel, Products, Images and Fashion (visible in the October 2024 and February 2025 Wayback homepage snapshots). There was no subscription and no credit meter; monetization was entirely deferred while the $60M seed and ~$100M Series A funded growth.

On April 2, 2025 Genspark launched Super Agent, a no-code autonomous agent built on a mixture-of-agents architecture (≈9 models, 80+ tools), and effectively retired the standalone search product. This is when the credit-based business model appears: paid Plus/Pro consumer tiers layered on a free plan, with credits as the value metric. The reception was extreme — $10M ARR in nine days, faster than Cursor or Lovable — which is what justified the November 2025 $275M Series B and the AI Workspace bundling that followed. The lesson for pricing teams is that Genspark waited until it had a high-willingness-to-pay agent product before turning on any meter at all, rather than trying to monetize a free search habit.

What’s unique : Credit-tier pricing and time-boxed unlimited access

1. Credit-tier pricing for consumer plans. Plus and Pro are not single-price plans — each exposes multiple credit tiers (from 10,000 and 125,000 credits/month respectively), so the buyer chooses both a plan and a credit ceiling. This is closer to a self-selected commitment than a sticker price, and it means one plan name spans a wide price range.

2. Time-boxed unlimited zero-credit access. Plus, Pro and Team advertise unlimited, zero-credit use of top-tier chat and image models, but only guaranteed through December 31, 2026 — a deliberate carve-out that removes adoption anxiety on the highest-traffic models while still metering premium video and audio. It is a hybrid of a freemium credit allowance and a promotional unlimited tier, and it directly addresses the unpredictable-cost anxiety that suppresses agent adoption.

3. Per-seat Team plan with fixed credits. The Team plan replaces credit-tier choice with a flat $30/seat/mo and a fixed 12,000 credits per seat, with 10,000-credit add-on packs for power users — a clean hybrid of seats and a usage meter.

4. Monetization deferred until a high-value agent existed. Genspark ran free for nine months as a search engine and only introduced credits after the April 2025 Super Agent pivot — a sequencing choice (build willingness-to-pay first, meter second) that few free products manage to pull off.

Strengths & weaknesses

Billing UX : Stripe checkout, seat manager and team credit packs

• Plan page upgrade flow — choose plan and billing cycle (monthly or annual, ~20% annual saving) and click Upgrade; checkout runs through Stripe and a receipt is emailed to the billing address.
• Monthly vs annual switch — switch billing interval directly from the Plan page without cancelling; Monthly→Annual is immediate with a prorated charge, Annual→Monthly is scheduled for the next cycle.
• Manage Seats (Team) — add/remove seats with a cost-impact preview; seat increases are immediate and prorated, decreases take effect next cycle (cannot go below 2 seats).
• Add Credits / Credits Packs (Team) — admins buy 10,000-credit packs; members self-claim via a one-click popup when they run out, or admins pre-assign packs from User analytics → Member Stats.
• Organization Payment dashboard — sidebar with Billing, Members, Connectors, User analytics, Identity & provisioning (SAML SSO) and API Keys; Enterprise adds Usage Logs and Login History.
• Billing portal — Manage → Edit Billing / Payment Method opens the Stripe billing portal to update cards and download past invoices.
• Mobile subscriptions — Plus/Pro can be purchased via iOS App Store or Google Play, managed separately from web subscriptions.

Strategic wins : Decisions that strengthen Genspark’s model

1. Credits as a single normalized value metric

Pricing every agent and generation in one credit unit lets Genspark add new models without re-pricing plans — when Veo 3.1 or Nano Banana Pro ships, it just costs credits, no plan rev needed. See usage-based pricing fundamentals and the credit-based billing pattern.

2. A clean, self-serve $30 Team plan

A flat per-seat Team plan with SSO/SAML and admin controls gives Genspark a low-friction path into organizations before sales-led Enterprise, reusing the same credit engine with seats on top. The published $30 honesty contrasts sharply with the gated consumer prices. See usage-based billing cycles.

3. Unlimited zero-credit access to the most-used models

Carving the highest-traffic chat and image models out of the credit meter removes the anxiety that usually suppresses agent adoption, while metered credits still capture spend on premium video and audio generation. See value metric selection.

4. Sequencing monetization behind the pivot

By staying free as a search engine and only switching on credits once Super Agent existed, Genspark built willingness-to-pay before introducing friction — and was rewarded with $10M ARR in nine days. Compare how other agent platforms time their meter against adoption in the pricing blueprint.

Areas to improve : Gaps and concrete fixes

1. Publish consumer Plus/Pro dollar prices

Gating Plus/Pro dollar prices behind sign-in — and publishing credit tiers but no dollars in the help center — hurts buyer trust and cedes the “Genspark pricing” search result to third-party blogs guessing the numbers. A public price-by-credit-tier table on /pricing would reclaim that traffic and let buyers compare against flat-priced rivals. See the value-metric problem in AI pricing.

2. Clarify the post-2026 “unlimited” policy

The unlimited zero-credit promise expiring Dec 31, 2026 creates planning risk across Plus, Pro and Team; publishing the successor policy early — even just “it will continue at $X credits” — would reduce churn anxiety and remove the cliff from procurement reviews.

3. Soften the consumer credit-burn cliff

Removing one-time top-up packs (~2026-03) means a credit-heavy month now forces a permanent ~3× tier upgrade ($25→$75/mo) instead of a $20 pack, and heavy users report exhausting Plus credits in 2–3 weeks. Reinstating a consumer pay-as-you-go top-up — or at least showing a clear per-action credit cost before video generation — would reduce the “intransparent and expensive” sentiment surfaced in reviews. See credit-based billing trade-offs.

Key takeaways

1. Sequence monetization behind the product worth paying for. Genspark stayed free for nine months as a search engine and only switched on credits after the April 2025 Super Agent pivot — and hit $10M ARR in nine days. Build willingness-to-pay first, meter second.
2. Credit tiers let one plan span many price points. Genspark’s Plus/Pro expose multiple credit tiers, decoupling plan choice from spend ceiling and turning usage into a self-selected commitment.
3. Per-seat overlays scale a consumer product into teams. A flat $30/seat Team plan reuses the same credit engine with seats on top, giving a low-friction path from prosumer to org before sales-led Enterprise.
4. Time-boxed unlimited promos drive adoption but add a cliff. Zero-credit unlimited access is compelling yet expires Dec 31, 2026, and removing consumer top-up packs converted a $20 fix into a permanent tier upgrade — both create planning risk you must manage.
5. Gating consumer prices is a transparency trade-off you may lose. Hiding Plus/Pro dollar figures optimizes funnel control, but it hands the “Genspark pricing” search result to third-party blogs and erodes buyer trust.

UBP implications

1. Credit tiers are a packaging lever, not just a meter. Offering several credit ceilings within one plan name turns usage into a self-selected commitment and lets a single product serve $25/mo prosumers and $250/mo professionals without separate SKUs.
2. Unlimited zero-credit carve-outs reshape the value metric. Making the most-used models free-of-credit shifts metered spend to the long tail of premium video and audio generation — the meter follows where the marginal cost actually is, not where the usage is.
3. Per-seat plus per-credit hybrids ease the prosumer-to-team transition. Keeping credits as the unit while adding seats lets a consumer product graduate into org sales without re-architecting billing, the same pattern seen across hybrid-pricing companies in the corpus.

Sources

• Genspark pricing page (accessed 2026-06-02)
• Genspark Team pricing (accessed 2026-06-02)
• Genspark Help Center — Membership Plans (accessed 2026-06-02)
• Genspark Help Center — Team & Enterprise Plans (accessed 2026-06-02)
• Genspark for Business (accessed 2026-06-02)

Bottom line

Genspark sells a broad AI agent workspace on a credit-allowance subscription: Free, credit-tiered Plus and Pro for individuals, a clean self-serve Team plan at $30 per seat per month, and contracted Enterprise — with unlimited zero-credit top-tier chat and image access as the headline lure through the end of 2026.

Want to compare Genspark against other AI agent pricing? Browse the pricing blueprint.

Pricing timeline : Major events on a vertical axis

Each milestone below corresponds to a public pricing change, product launch, or material adjustment. Major events use a filled marker; minor adjustments use a faded one.

Credit-tiered Free/Plus/Pro plus $30/seat Team and custom Enterprise

Jun 2026

Genspark runs a credit-allowance subscription: Free (100 daily credits), Plus (from 10,000 credits/mo), Pro (from 125,000 credits/mo), a self-serve Team plan at $30/seat/mo (12,000 credits, 60 GB Drive per seat, 2–150 seats), and contract Enterprise (25,000 credits/seat, 151+ seats). Consumer Plus/Pro dollar prices render only inside the signed-in app (gated and recorded as unknown); third-party write-ups put the Plus entry tier in the mid-twenties of dollars per month and Pro in the low two-hundreds per month. Unlimited zero-credit top-tier chat and image models guaranteed through Dec 31, 2026.

Consumer one-time credit top-up packs removed

Mar 2026

Genspark removed standalone one-time consumer credit packs (previously 10,000 credits for $20, valid 3 months); community flagged it ~2026-03-16 when the 'Add More Credits' button began redirecting to plan upgrades. Running out now means upgrading to a higher Plus credit tier (~32,000 credits, roughly a 3x price step per third-party reporting) or waiting for the monthly reset. Team Credits Packs (10,000/pack) are unaffected. Source: hiroshi.today/genspark-removed-credit-top-ups.

$275M Series B (~$1.25B valuation); AI Workspace launch

Nov 2025

Genspark raised a $275M Series B led by Emergence Capital at a ~$1.25B post-money valuation and launched its AI Workspace — bundling Super Agent with AI Slides/Sheets/Docs/Developer and creative generation. Reported ~$85M ARR at end of 2025. Source: businesswire.com 20251120036880; thesaasnews.com/news/genspark-raises-275-million-in-series-b.

Super Agent launch — pivot from search to agentic AI; paid credit plans

Apr 2025

Genspark launched Super Agent, a no-code autonomous agent (mixture-of-agents over ~9 models and 80+ tools), and pivoted away from search. It hit $10M ARR in 9 days. This era introduced the credit-based paid consumer plans (Plus / Pro) on top of the free tier. Source: openai.com/index/genspark; aisecret.us/record-breaking-launch-genspark-super-agent; ai-supremacy.com pivot writeup.

$100M Series A; search product matures (Deep Research, Sparkpages)

Feb 2025

Genspark raised a ~$100M Series A at a ~$530M valuation (reported Feb 2025). Wayback homepage snapshots show the search era at its peak — Sparkpages, Deep Research, General Chat and vertical search (Fashion, News Briefing) — still pre-Super-Agent and still free. Source: sacra.com/c/genspark; homepage Wayback 2025-02 snapshot.

Launch as a free agentic search engine (Sparkpages)

Jun 2024

Genspark (built by MainFunc, founded 2023 by ex-Baidu/Xiaodu execs Eric Jing and Kay Zhu) launched as a free, no-signup AI search engine that generated custom 'Sparkpages' plus an Autopilot Agent and vertical search (Travel/Products/Images). Same-day $60M seed led by Lanchi Ventures (~$260M valuation). No paid tiers — the entire product was free. Source: techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/genspark-is-the-latest-attempt-at-an-ai-powered-search-engine, siliconangle.com 2024-06-18.