Plans, AI models and generation quotas
Essential and Pro are plans; Core and Plus are AI models. Understand current inclusions, monthly generation quotas, temporary Plus access and cancellation.
Written By Jack Finnegan
Last updated 7 days ago
Essential and Pro are subscription plans. Core and Plus are AI models. Your plan controls your features and monthly allowances. The model controls how BA Copilot generates a process map.
Current information: This article was verified against the live BA Copilot pricing page on 14 August 2026. If a number here ever differs from the pricing page or your checkout screen, use the live pricing or checkout figure.
Plans and models are different things
Changing from Core to Plus does not change your subscription plan and does not create a second quota. When both models are available to you, successful generations use the same plan allowance.
Current Cloud plans
Essential
- 50 successful AI process-map generations per monthly quota period using Core
- Up to 1,000 assistant questions
- 1 organisation, 1 team space and 1 private space
- Internal review comments
- 50 downloads and 50 exports
Pro
- Everything in Essential
- 100 successful AI process-map generations per monthly quota period using Core or Plus
- 3 organisations; per organisation: 3 team spaces, 3 private spaces and 5 viewer seats
- Optional paid collaborator seats, currently with 100 generations per collaborator
- Custom instructions and reusable prompt templates
- External feedback links, API access, watermark-free image downloads and bulk branded PDF export
Enterprise
- Everything in Pro
- 10 included seats, currently with 100 generations per seat
- An additional shared pool of 2,000 AI generations
- 100 organisations, plus enterprise governance, infrastructure and support options
Enterprise is a contact-sales plan. See the live pricing page for current prices and the full list of inclusions. BA Copilot Local is a separate one-time licence rather than an Essential or Pro Cloud subscription.
What counts as a generation?
One successful AI operation that creates or refines a process map uses one generation. An initial request can return up to three alternative map options and still uses one generation. A successful AI refinement also uses one generation. A failed operation that produces no usable process map is not counted.
- Core and Plus draw from the same plan allowance; there is no separate Plus quota.
- Bulk import uses one generation for each process map it successfully generates.
- Process-map generation through the REST API or MCP uses the same monthly plan quota as the dashboard.
- Text-only assistant questions are separate from process-map generations.
Core and Plus
Temporary Plus access is not a permanent Essential entitlement. During testing, Plus may appear in Labs for Essential or trial accounts. That experimental access may change, move to a different plan or be removed. Essential's included allowance remains the Core allowance shown on the live pricing page. If Plus is temporarily available on Essential, it uses the same Essential generation pool.
When the generation quota runs out
BA Copilot stops new AI process-map generations and AI refinements for that quota period. Existing maps remain available and can still be edited manually. Text-only assistant questions can continue while you still have question allowance.
You can wait for the monthly generation allowance to reset or use any top-up or plan option currently shown in billing or on the pricing page. Top-up availability and terms can change, so the live screen is authoritative.
What happens when you cancel?
Cancellation is scheduled for the end of your current paid billing period. Your current plan stays active until that date. Your process maps remain safe, and you can resubscribe.
After the paid period ends, paid-plan features and the paid monthly generation allowance stop. Your account then follows the access and limits available to non-subscribers at that time; your existing process maps are not deleted because you cancelled.
Some eligible subscribers may be shown an optional retention plan during cancellation. It is not a public Essential or Pro entitlement. If it is offered, review the price, quota and effective date shown in the cancellation screen before choosing it.
Free trial
The free trial is not a subscription plan. It currently includes up to 3 AI messages, up to 2 chats, Core model access and manual BPMN editing. See Free trial for details.