Honest Cheetah pricing
Free is everything Honest Cheetah computes. Paid is everything a model writes, and test management. The math is free; the AI is paid.
Free
$0
Every organization, by default. No seat cap, no project cap, no time limit, no card.
- Monte Carlo forecasting
- Flow metrics: cycle time, throughput, aging work, delivery window
- Backlog and refinement workflow
- Iteration planning
- Definition of Done
- The Azure DevOps import: requirements, tasks and history
- Filing bugs
- Sign in with GitHub. Nothing to install.
No AI calls of any kind.
Paid
$25 per seat per month
Five-seat minimum ($125/month), plus applicable tax.
Everything in Free, plus:
- AI assistance: requirement scoring, improve, split, drafting, and a Definition of Done tailored to your project
- Daily News: a short briefing on every project, every day
- Test management: test cases, runs, evidence, and bugs filed from a failed test
- Test cases from the Azure DevOps import
- A monthly AI budget per organization, with a hard ceiling. When it's spent, AI pauses until next month; everything else keeps working.
AI never writes anything to GitHub you didn't confirm.
What's a seat?
A seat is one person using the paid features. Nobody needs a seat to use the free ones.
Your whole organization can use forecasting, metrics, the backlog and the rest without anyone buying anything. Seats matter only for AI assistance, Daily News and test management. On a subscription, an organization owner decides who gets one. During the trial, the first five people to use a paid feature get the five seats.
The trial
One per organization. Fifteen days, five seats, no credit card.
- It starts when you say so. Nothing starts when you sign in. The trial starts only when someone presses Start trial in the app and confirms. Any member of the organization can.
- When it ends, nothing locks. The paid features go away again and the free ones carry on. Whatever you made during the trial is kept, and it's all there if you subscribe.
- Need longer? Some evaluations take more than two weeks. Email sales@honestcheetah.com and a person will read it.
How long Honest Cheetah keeps things
Your issues, statuses and board never live in Honest Cheetah. They're in GitHub, and it reads them live. What Honest Cheetah stores is your settings (project configuration, Definition of Done, iterations) and the history it records over time (metrics, imported work items, filed bugs).
- Free: settings are kept as long as your organization uses Honest Cheetah. History is kept for a rolling six months.
- Paid: history is kept for as long as you subscribe.
- Gone quiet: if nobody in a free organization signs in for 180 days, we email the owner, wait 30 days, and then delete the organization's settings. Your data in GitHub is untouched.
What it can see
Signing in asks GitHub for access to your repositories, including private ones, because GitHub has no narrower permission that can read a private repository's issues. Honest Cheetah reads your issues and project boards, writes issues and sub-issues when you ask it to, creates a repository only when you use the project factory, and never touches your code. More on this.
Do I need the GitHub App?
No. The free product and the trial need nothing installed. The Honest Cheetah GitHub App is only for work that happens while nobody is signed in, like Daily News arriving overnight. You can add it later if you want that.
Honest Cheetah for Azure DevOps is free
The Azure DevOps extension, with cycle time, throughput, aging work and Monte Carlo forecasting inside Azure DevOps, is free. No trial, no seats. Get it →
Bigger than this?
SSO, invoicing, a security review, or more than a team? Email sales@honestcheetah.com. If what you need is help with the delivery problems the numbers are showing you, that's what I do.