> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.stenoai.co/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Pricing

> Steno is free and open source (MIT), with no usage restrictions and no per-seat fees or accounts. A paid managed Enterprise deployment tier is a separate, optional offering.

# Pricing — Steno

Steno is **free and open source** (MIT licensed) -- the MIT license places no
restriction on who can use it or at what scale, including enterprise and commercial
use. There are no per-seat fees, subscriptions, or accounts. Separately, Steno also
offers a paid **Enterprise** tier: managed deployment with admin controls and
organization-specific features, for teams that want that on top of the free app.

## Free — for everyone, including enterprise use

* Price: \$0
* License: MIT (open source) -- no usage restrictions, including for commercial or enterprise deployments
* Source code: [https://github.com/ruzin/stenoai](https://github.com/ruzin/stenoai)
* Account required: no
* Includes: recording (system audio + microphone), on-device transcription (Parakeet and
  Whisper engines), on-device summarization (local models via Ollama), live transcription,
  report templates, ask-your-meetings chat, speaker labels, and Apple Shortcuts automation.

## Enterprise (optional paid tier)

* A separate, optional offering on top of the free app: managed deployment with admin controls
  and organization-specific features.
* Enterprise pricing and packaging is being finalized — details coming soon.

## Optional costs (not paid to Steno)

* **Cloud summarization (optional, off by default):** if you choose OpenAI, Anthropic, or AWS
  Bedrock instead of the local model, you pay that provider directly for API usage. Steno does
  not resell or mark up these services. A custom endpoint may be a paid API (same as above) or
  your own self-hosted server, which may have no per-request cost.
* Everything works with no cloud provider — the default pipeline is fully local and free.

## Platform

* macOS only (macOS 12 Monterey or later; Apple Silicon, M1 or later -- Intel Macs are not supported since v0.4.0).

## Download

* [https://stenoai.co/#download](https://stenoai.co/#download)