How much does Keystroke cost in 2026?
Quick Answer: Keystroke offers three tiers as of July 2026: Hobby (free forever, with $1/month of included usage credit), Pro ($20/month, including $20/month of usage credit), and Organization (custom pricing with SSO, RBAC, and audit logs). Usage is metered on every tier: $0.01 per agent or workflow run, $0.005 per empty poll, $0.007 per web search, roughly $0.067 per hour of sandbox compute, and a 1.1x markup on AI model calls unless you bring your own API keys.
Keystroke Pricing Structure (July 2026)
Keystroke uses plan-plus-usage pricing. Each tier includes a monthly usage credit; metered consumption draws against it, and overage is billed at the same rates.
Hobby (free forever). $1/month of included usage credit, 1 project, 5 GB file storage, 5 concurrent runs, 10-minute agent and workflow timeouts, a 60 requests/minute API rate limit, and 7-day log retention.
Pro ($20/month). Includes $20/month of usage credit, 5 projects, 50 GB storage (then $0.25 per 10 GB), 10 concurrent runs, 30-minute timeouts, a 300 requests/minute rate limit, and 30-day log retention.
Organization (custom). Unlimited projects and concurrent runs, custom storage, timeouts, rate limits, and log retention, plus role-based access controls, SSO, audit logs, and priority support.
The Usage Rates
All tiers meter the same rates: $0.01 per agent run, $0.01 per workflow run, $0.005 per empty poll trigger, $0.007 per web search, $0.001 per web fetch, and roughly $0.067 per hour of sandbox compute. AI model calls through Keystroke's gateway (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Groq, xAI) carry a 1.1x markup on the provider's list price; bring-your-own-key usage is not billed by Keystroke at all. New signups receive $20 in free credits during the open alpha.
What the Math Looks Like
At 10,000 workflow runs a month, run fees alone are about $100, versus the $20 credit included with Pro, so roughly $100/month total. For comparison, n8n Cloud Pro covers 10,000 executions for $60/month, and self-hosted n8n meters nothing. At a few hundred runs a month, Hobby's included credit can cover the entire bill, which makes trialing effectively free.
Editor's Note: The rate card looks tiny until you do the polling math: one workflow polling every five minutes generates roughly 8,600 polls a month, which is about $41 at the $0.005 empty-poll rate before a single run executes. In our client stacks we default to webhook triggers wherever the source app supports them, for exactly this reason. — Rafal Fila, ShadowGen
Caveats
Keystroke is an open alpha as of July 2026 ("Keystroke 1.0" is advertised as coming soon), so these prices may change at general availability. Self-hosting under the Elastic License 2.0 avoids platform metering but gives up the managed team workspace, and there is no published annual-billing discount on any tier.
Related Questions
Related Tools
Keystroke
Code-first workflow automation built for AI coding agents
Workflow Automationn8n
Workflow automation for technical teams
Workflow AutomationTrigger.dev
Open-source background jobs and durable workflows platform for TypeScript developers.
Workflow AutomationInngest
Durable workflow and background job platform for TypeScript and Python services.
Workflow AutomationRelated Rankings
Best Durable Workflow Engines for Production in 2026
A ranked list of the best durable workflow engines for production deployments in 2026. Durable workflow engines persist execution state to a database so that long-running workflows survive process restarts, deployments, and infrastructure failures. The ranking covers Temporal, Prefect, Apache Airflow, Camunda, Windmill, and n8n. Tools were evaluated on production reliability, developer experience, scalability, open-source health, and documentation quality. The shortlist intentionally mixes code-first engines (Temporal, Prefect, Airflow) with hybrid visual platforms (Camunda, Windmill, n8n) to reflect how production teams actually choose workflow engines in 2026.
Best No-Code Automation Platforms in 2026
A ranked list of no-code automation platforms in 2026. The ranking covers visual workflow builders that allow non-engineering teams to connect SaaS apps, route data, and add conditional logic without writing code. Entries cover proprietary cloud platforms (Zapier, Make, Pipedream, IFTTT) and open-source visual builders (n8n, Activepieces). Scoring reflects integration breadth, pricing accessibility, visual editor ease, reliability and error handling, and self-hosting availability.
Dive Deeper
Keystroke vs n8n in 2026: Agent-Built TypeScript vs the Visual Canvas
Keystroke, launched in July 2026 by Y Combinator W24 company Sprint Labs, is a code-first automation platform where AI coding agents write workflows as TypeScript in the user's repository. n8n, founded in 2019, is the most widely deployed source-available visual workflow platform, with 200,000+ users and a $2.5 billion valuation. This comparison covers the agent-authored versus canvas building models, durable execution, licensing (Elastic License 2.0 vs the Sustainable Use License), verified July 2026 pricing including Keystroke's usage metering, and the maturity gap between a days-old platform and an established ecosystem.
QuantumBPM vs Camunda 2026: Single-Binary Challenger vs the BPMN Incumbent
QuantumBPM (launched 2026, Coroid s.r.o., Slovakia) packages a BPMN 2.0 runtime and DMN 1.5 decision engine into one Go binary backed by Temporal and PostgreSQL. Camunda (Berlin, founded 2013) is the category incumbent: Camunda 7 (Apache 2.0, in maintenance) and the Zeebe-based Camunda 8 platform. This comparison covers product structure, architecture, DMN TCK conformance with recording dates, deployment, pricing, and vendor maturity, verified July 2026.
Migrating 23 Make Scenarios to Self-Hosted n8n: a 3-Week Breakdown
Anonymized retrospective of a DTC ecommerce brand migrating 23 Make scenarios to a self-hosted n8n instance over three weeks. Tooling cost dropped from $348/month on Make Teams to roughly $12/month on a Hetzner VPS, but credential and webhook recreation consumed about 40% of total project time.