Why talking to the agent is free every month
On most AI builders, explaining what you want costs the same as building it. We separated the two — here is how, and where the limits are.
On an AI app builder, the meter starts running the moment you open your mouth. Describing your idea costs. Answering the agent’s question costs. Saying "no, not like that" costs. And reading the logs to understand why something broke costs too — often more than the feature itself.
The result is a reflex everyone has seen: the user writes as little as possible. A short, vague instruction, to save money. The agent builds the wrong thing. You start over. What was saved in the writing gets paid three times in the building.
Two envelopes, not one
At Makasi, talking and building are not the same counter. The conversation with the agent — describing, asking, planning, changing your mind, having an error message explained — lives in a monthly allowance included in every plan, the free one included. While it lasts, it doesn’t touch your credits.
Credits pay first for work actually done on your app: a build, a fix. And they are charged AFTER the fact, based on what that work really cost — a small change costs little, a large feature costs more. The amount can then be viewed in the workspace and in your usage history.
What it changes day to day
- You can describe your idea in ten sentences instead of one, without doing the math.
- You can ask for a plan, read it, reject it, ask for another — nothing is built until you say go.
- You can paste an error and ask "what is this?" without the question costing you a build.
- You can change your mind mid-way. That is the cheapest possible moment to do it.
The limits, stated plainly
Free does not mean unlimited. The chat allowance is monthly and depends on your plan. When it runs out, chat does not stop: it carries on with your credits, and you can see what each message cost. It renews with your next period.
A fix is agent work like any other: when a build fails, fixing it is charged at its actual cost, just like the build itself. Whatever was delivered before the failure is kept.
None of this is a favour: it follows from an architectural choice. As long as the price is tied to work performed rather than to messages exchanged, charging for normal conversation has no reason to exist.