Plans built around your work

Free for browsing, tipping, and buying. Resident, Artist, and Artist Pro for selling, generating, and growing your following.

Free
$0/forever
50 trial credits (one-time)
≈ 125 Studio prompts or 10 Pulse reports
  • Browse the gallery, tip artists, subscribe, buy Recipes / Blueprints / Personas
  • 1 saved persona (private use only)
  • Cannot upload posts
  • Cannot sell or receive payouts
Free forever — no credit card required. Trial credits are one-time on signup.
Resident
$5 / month
100 credits (one-time on signup)
≈ 250 Studio prompts or 20 Pulse reports
  • Everything in Free
  • Upload 5 images / day, 5 videos / week
  • 15 GB active storage
  • Save up to 10 personas, 10 references each
  • Sell Recipes / Blueprints / Personas — 20% platform fee
  • Receive tips + offer fan subscriptions — 12% fee
  • Stripe Connect onboarding + Featured eligibility
No recurring credit allotment — buy packs as you need them, or upgrade to Artist for 200 cr / month.
Artist
$9 / month
200 credits / month
≈ 500 Studio prompts or 40 Pulse reports
  • Everything in Resident
  • Upload 5 images / day, 5 videos / week
  • 15 GB active storage
  • Save up to 10 personas, 10 references each
  • Sell Recipes / Blueprints / Personas — 20% platform fee
  • Receive tips + offer fan subscriptions — 12% fee
  • Stripe Connect onboarding + Featured eligibility
MOST POPULAR
Artist Pro
$29 / month
500 credits / month
≈ 1250 Studio prompts or 100 Pulse reports
  • Everything in Artist
  • Upload 20 images / day, 15 videos / week
  • 75 GB active storage
  • Save up to 20 personas, 20 references each
  • Sell Recipes / Blueprints / Personas — 5% platform fee
  • Receive tips + offer fan subscriptions — 5% fee
  • Featured eligibility boost — 1.25× scoring multiplier
  • Premium model access — Drift Studio + Drift Pulse run on our top-tier model

Top up anytime

Pack credits never expire. Tier credits drain first; pack credits stack on top.

Quick top-up
50 credits
$5
$0.10 per credit
Recommended
Most popular
200 credits
$15
$0.08 per credit
Best value
Power user
500 credits
$30
$0.06 per credit

What credits unlock

Drift Studio — Persona prompt generation

5-prompt batch (Standard)2 credits
10-prompt batch (Standard)4 credits
15-prompt batch (Standard)6 credits
5-prompt batch (Premium)8 credits
10-prompt batch (Premium)16 credits
15-prompt batch (Premium)24 credits
Both-mode (paired image + video)2× the standalone cost

Both-mode runs two parallel generations — one image batch + one video batch sharing the same scenes.

Drift Studio — Persona creation

Reference image extraction (per image)1 credit
Style aggregation at save1 credit

Creating a persona with 5 reference images costs 6 credits total (5 extractions + 1 aggregation). Reference uploads themselves are free; the credit lands when you click Extract.

Drift Studio — Persona iteration

Reference refresh (per active reference)1 credit
Voice refinement (per turn)1 credit
Scene “Strengthen with AI”1 credit
Save-as-scene from a reference1 credit
Image-to-scene extraction1 credit

A persona with 8 references costs 8 credits to refresh after you swap or add references. Manual scenes (typed by hand) are free — credits only land when AI work runs against the scene.

Drift Pulse — Trend reports

Weekly Standard report5 credits
Weekly Premium report10 credits

Free — These don’t cost credits

Reference image upload (before extraction)
AI Suggest persona-creation chat (rate-limited)
Manual scene creation (without image extraction)
Browsing, tipping, buying, fan-sub purchases
All marketplace listings (Recipes / Blueprints / Personas)

Questions

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. Subscriptions are month-to-month — cancel from your billing portal and you keep paid-tier access until the end of the period. A retention offer (one month free) appears on cancel if you haven’t used it before.

What happens to my credits if I downgrade?

Your tier credits stay on the account through the end of the paid-period reset. After that, you’re on the destination tier’s allotment going forward. Pack credits never expire and stack on top — they survive any tier change.

What's Resident for?

Resident ($5/month) is the entry-level paid tier — it unlocks upload, selling, and Stripe payouts without committing to a monthly credit allotment. You get 100 credits one-time on signup; after that, buy credit packs as you need them, or upgrade to Artist (200 credits/month) when Studio becomes your daily tool. Same caps + fees as Artist; the only difference is how Studio credits flow.

What's the difference between Standard and Premium models?

Standard is fast, high-quality, and the default for every plan — Drift Studio + Pulse use it for prompt generation, voice refinement, and synthesis. Premium routes the same calls to a larger model (available on Artist Pro): deeper reasoning, richer prose, more nuance — at a higher per-call credit cost.

What does the platform fee mean?

When you sell a Recipe, Blueprint, or Persona, Drift takes a percentage of the sale price; the rest goes to your Stripe payouts. On a $10 marketplace sale, an Artist nets $8.00 (20% fee); an Artist Pro nets $9.50 (5% fee). Tips and fan subscriptions use the 12% / 5% split. No fees apply to buying — only to receiving.

Why approval to publish?

Drift Gallery curates who shows up on /explore and the artist directory to keep the work coherent. Anyone can pay for an Artist plan and use Drift Studio + Pulse for private projects today; approval unlocks publishing and listing. Apply once you’re ready.

What's the difference between buying credits and upgrading?

Upgrading raises your monthly tier allotment (200 → 500), reduces marketplace fees, and unlocks higher upload limits, more storage, more personas, and Premium model access. Credit packs are a one-time top-up — they don’t change your tier or fees, they just add credits that never expire on top of whatever you’ve got.