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Subscription & Plans: How Billing Works in Inrō

Understand Inrō's plans, how usage-based pricing works, what happens when you hit your limit, and how to manage your subscription.

Inrō's billing is built around one idea: you pay for the contacts you actually message, not for how many followers you have. This article explains the plans, how pricing scales, and how to manage everything from inside the app.

Where to find your plan

Go to Profile → Subscription & add-ons (click your organization name in the bottom-left, then Subscription & add-ons). You'll see your current plan, your renewal date, a usage meter for the contacts you've activated this period, and a button to manage your plan.

Subscription & add-ons panel showing the current plan card, the 'Activated contacts' usage meter, and the Manage plan button

The plans

Inrō has three self-serve plans, plus a done-for-you service plan.

Free (€0/month)

A good way to try Inrō and run a few automations:

  • 100 activated contacts per period

  • Unlimited stored contacts

  • 3 active scenarios

  • 3 campaigns

  • 10 folders

  • 1 team member

  • 50 free AI credits to try the AI Agent (up to 100 after you finish the onboarding checklist)

Pro (from €12.99/month)

The main plan for businesses and creators who automate at scale:

  • Usage-based activated contacts: no cap, the price scales with how many you activate (see below)

  • Unlimited scenarios, campaigns, folders, and stored contacts

  • Up to 10 team members

  • The AI Agent included at no extra cost, with no credit limit

  • Collect payments from contacts in DMs

  • Private API and MCP access

  • A 14-day free trial when you first sign up

Annual (€1,249/year)

Pro on a fixed yearly price (the full list price is €1,800):

  • Everything in Pro, billed once a year

  • 10,000 activated contacts included per period

  • Unlimited team members

  • A predictable yearly cost with no usage scaling

Managed Account (from €200/month)

A done-for-you service where the Inrō team builds and runs your automations for you. It requires an active Pro subscription and is billed separately. See The Inrō Managed Account Plan for what's included.

How Pro pricing scales

On Pro, you start at €12.99/month for up to 500 activated contacts. As you activate more contacts in a period, the price moves up a band. A few examples:

Activated contacts in the period

Monthly price

0 – 500

€12.99

501 – 1,000

€19.99

1,001 – 1,500

€29.99

2,001 – 3,000

€49.99

9,001 – 10,000

€149.99

The bands keep rising with usage and level off at €999.99 once you pass 70,000 activated contacts in a period. You're always billed for the band your usage lands in, so the cost follows your real activity. To understand exactly what counts as an activation, see What Are Activated Contacts?

What happens when you hit your limit

This depends on your plan:

  • Free, Annual, and Trial have a fixed allowance (100, 10,000, and 1,000 activated contacts). When you reach it, your scenarios and campaigns stop messaging new contacts for the rest of the period, and Inrō prompts you to upgrade. You'll get a heads-up as you approach the cap.

  • Pro is never blocked. It has no cap, so your automations keep running. Your price follows the usage band you land in that period.

Contacts you've already activated this period don't count again, so reaching the limit is about how many unique new contacts you message, not how many messages you send.

The free plan also caps 3 active automations and 3 campaigns sent per month. Switching on a folder of automations counts every automation inside it towards the first of those, so a folder that would take you past three is refused rather than switched on in part. A campaign counts towards the second once it has actually sent to someone, so a draft or a campaign you cancelled before it went out doesn't use one up.

When you reach any paid feature or limit on the free plan, Inrō opens an upgrade window that names the exact feature or limit you hit, shows it against the full Free and Pro comparison, and offers any free trial you haven't used yet, with the dates you would be charged. If you have an unpaid invoice it offers to settle that first, and if your account is managed by an agency it points you to them instead, since your plan is theirs to change.

The Pro upgrade window after hitting the active-automation limit, with that row highlighted in the Free versus Pro table, the price, and a Start 14-day trial button showing what is charged and when.

If you run several Instagram accounts

Each Instagram account you connect is its own organization in Inrō, with its own contacts, automations and its own plan. They are not pooled. Two accounts on Pro are two Pro subscriptions, and an activated contact on one doesn't count against the other.

You still sign in once. Use Profile → Switch organization to move between them, and read each one's plan and usage in its own Subscription & add-ons panel after switching. There is no combined bill across accounts.

If you manage accounts for clients rather than yourself, the agency partner plan does pool them into one bill. See The Inrō Agency Partner Program.

Managing your subscription

Click Manage plan in the Subscription & add-ons panel. This opens the billing portal (powered by Stripe), where you can:

  • Upgrade or change your plan

  • Add or update your payment method

  • Update your billing and company details

  • View and download your invoices

  • Cancel your subscription

Stripe billing portal showing the current subscription, payment method, billing information, and invoice history

⚠️ Canceling takes effect at the end of your current billing period. Your account stays active until then, and afterward you move to the Free plan (with its 100 activated contacts per period). Your data stays safe.

If you had more than 3 scenarios active, Inrō keeps the 3 most recently triggered ones running, deactivates the rest, and emails you the list so you can choose which ones to keep.

If a renewal payment fails, nothing stops right away. Inrō emails you when the first charge fails, Pro keeps working for 14 days while Stripe retries the card, and you get reminders on day 3 and day 7. If the invoice is still unpaid on day 14, your account moves to the Free plan and you get a suspension email. A notice in Inrō links straight to the outstanding invoice; paying it restores Pro immediately. You can't start a new subscription while an invoice is outstanding, so pay it rather than re-subscribing. See Payment Failed or Plan Downgraded: How to Get Pro Back.

For company details, VAT, and where to find each invoice, see Your Invoices & Billing Details.

🐾 Netsuke's Tips

  • Check your usage mid-period at Subscription & add-ons. The meter shows exactly how many contacts you've activated so far.

  • The AI Agent is included free on Pro, with no credit drain. On the Free plan you use a small pool of AI credits instead. See AI Credits: What They Are and How to Check Them.

  • The trial gives you full Pro features for 14 days. The best way to judge the plan is to set up your real automations during it. See How to best use the trial & what happens next.

What's next?

To understand exactly when a contact gets counted (and when they don't), see What Are Activated Contacts?. For invoices and VAT, see Your Invoices & Billing Details.

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