Three plans. All of them feed people.
Base at $20 with 10 meals/mo. Max at $100 with 50. Max at $200 with 100. Same $0.80 per meal via ShareTheMeal. Meals scale with plan; the receipt is public every month.
Ladle
The one plan most people should pick.
- ●Claude Sonnet · 200K context
- ●Generous daily use — hundreds of chats a month, most files, most workflows.
- ○Standard routing
- ●Chats never used for training
- ●10 meals/mo · monthly WFP receipt
Ladle Max 5x
Heavier use, longer files, priority at peak.
- ●Claude Sonnet · 200K context
- ●Five times the base usage. Priority routing at peak. For working days that lean on the model.
- ●Priority routing at peak
- ●Chats never used for training
- ●50 meals/mo · monthly WFP receipt
Ladle Max 20x
Rate limits become a thing you don't think about.
- ●Claude Sonnet · 200K context
- ●Twenty times the base. Effectively removes rate limits for individual power users. Same $0.80 per meal.
- ●Priority routing at peak
- ●Chats never used for training
- ●100 meals/mo · monthly WFP receipt
Same price. One extra line.
How many meals over how long?
Every capability, every plan.
Multiples we can defend, not “unlimited”.
Base — a typical writer, developer, or knowledge worker doing 3-5 focused chats a day rarely hits the base plan's usage headroom. If you upload 200-page PDFs occasionally, still fine.
Max 5x — you code in the chat all day, you keep three long sessions open across projects, or your documents routinely fill the 200K window. 5x usage plus priority routing at peak keeps latency predictable when the base plan would start throttling.
Max 20x — you're using the model like a co-worker sitting next to you for 8+ hours. Rate limits stop being a thing you think about. This is the plan where the meal donation compounds — 100 meals/month, 1,200/year.
None of these plans are unlimited. We say multiples because that's what's actually true. If you approach a plan's ceiling in normal use, we upgrade you at prorated cost rather than throttle you into a wall.
The split, plan by plan.
- $8 to WFP · 10 meals
- $7 to Anthropic API
- $5 to ops (Stripe, infra, us)
- $40 to WFP · 50 meals
- $40 to Anthropic API
- $20 to ops (Stripe, infra, us)
- $80 to WFP · 100 meals
- $90 to Anthropic API
- $30 to ops (Stripe, infra, us)
Same tier prices as the incumbents. Different line item.
We hold price parity with the incumbent AI subscriptions on purpose. Being cheaper would let the meal donation be the discount that closes the sale; that framing turns the meals into a gimmick. Same price, verified receipt, honest tradeoff. Full comparisons at /compare.
Give LADLE to someone. Meals land in their name.
Gift 1, 3, 6, or 12 months. Recipient creates their own account. Meals fund in their name via the same monthly WFP receipt. No auto-conversion when the gift ends.
Ten questions.
Fixed. $8 of every Ladle subscription, $40 of every Max 5x, $80 of every Max 20x, earmarked the moment your Stripe charge clears. Not conditional on us being profitable. If we can't afford it, we don't build the plan.
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LADLE. Three plans. All of them feed people.
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