Aura Pricing in 2026

Aura pricing guide details

Pricing Overview

Aura charges for collaboration, not for the engine. The version-control engine is open source under Apache-2.0 and free to run on your own machine forever, with no card and no account. What costs money is everything that only exists once more than one person is in the same code: live sync between teammates, shared history, and cloud machines for the work to run on.

Three published prices and one quote-only tier: Open source at $0, Pro at $20 per person per month, Team at $40 per seat per month, and Enterprise at a custom price the vendor describes as starting from about $25,000 per year. All prices are billed monthly in USD. Seats are counted as people, not as agents, so running five agents costs the same as running one.

Aura is in free public beta at the time of writing, so treat the rate card as current rather than settled.

Plan Comparison

The tiers are cumulative: Pro is everything in Open source, Team is everything in Pro for everyone, and Enterprise is everything in Team.

What Each Tier Adds

Open source is the complete engine, not a trial: the desktop app, the CLI and 29 MCP tools, semantic history of every change an agent makes, a plain-English explanation of any diff, and the ability to rewind a single function rather than a whole commit. You can host your own git remote and mirror any repository onto a box you own. The vendor states it never phones home.

Pro exists for one thing: Aura holds the model key so you do not have to. It includes a token allowance, then meters usage at cost plus margin. Bringing your own key stays free on every tier, so Pro buys convenience rather than access.

Team is the tier the product is aimed at. Live sync shows teammates the functions you are changing as you change them, Team Radar warns who is working in which symbol before two people collide, and a shared provenance ledger keeps one record of what every agent did. You can bring your own cloud box over SSH and share it across the team, with per-member cost reporting. Team includes a 14-day trial with no card up front.

Enterprise adds the audit trail: a signed, exportable, per-symbol ledger of AI authorship, SSO/SAML/SCIM, self-hosting in your own VPC, and cross-repo blast radius across the whole organisation, plus unlimited syncs, a security review and an SLA.

Hidden Costs and Considerations

Model usage is the cost that sits outside the seat price. On Open source and on any tier where you bring your own key, you pay your model provider directly. On Pro and Team, Aura holds the key and meters tokens at cost plus margin once the included allowance runs out, so heavy agent use raises the bill above the headline seat price.

The cloud sync allowance is the other ceiling. Open source is capped at 100 syncs a month, which suits solo work on a self-hosted remote; Pro raises this to 2,000 and Team to 10,000. The vendor does not publish an overage rate for syncs.

Two Team and Enterprise capabilities are marked "soon" on the vendor's own comparison table rather than available today: Aura provisioning and running the box for you, and org-wide mirror policy with a fleet view. Enterprise's audit ledger is signed and exportable, while Team's is described as basic.

Aura publishes no annual discount. Everything is billed monthly.

Cost Estimates by Team Size

The figures below are the published seat rates multiplied by headcount. They are arithmetic on Aura's own prices, not quotes. Aura publishes no annual discount, so a yearly figure is twelve times the monthly one.

At around 50 seats the Team plan approaches the figure the vendor gives as the Enterprise starting point, so an organisation of that size should price both. Add model spend to every row except the self-hosted one, where you pay your model provider directly instead.