What happened
Sesame describes its assistants as tools for talking through things and getting tasks done, and says every plan includes the same features. The plans differ in allowances. Free costs $0, includes 30 minutes of talk time per day, and provides limited weekly credits for texts and tasks. Talk time resets daily; credits reset weekly.
Plus is listed at $20 per month and marked “Most popular.” Sesame says it provides two hours of talk time a day and four times the weekly credits of Free. Pro costs $100 per month and includes 10 hours of talk time per day and 20 times Free's weekly credits. The company characterizes Plus as suitable for everyday help and Pro for extended use and complex tasks. Both retain the same features available on Free. Sesame offers a seven-day Plus trial, which a person can use once.
The two allowances cover different activity. A call uses talk time. “Anything the agent goes and does” uses credits, whether the request came by voice or text. Sesame says a call can continue when credits are exhausted; calls using Max intelligence then continue at Standard intelligence until credits are available again. Users can continue texting when both allowances are depleted, but with lower model intelligence and some restricted capabilities. Scheduled tasks pause when credits run out, then resume at their next scheduled time after the weekly reset; Sesame says nothing is deleted and paused tasks pick up where they left off.
Users can buy add-ons from any plan, including Free. One hour of talk time costs $5, five hours costs $20, 1,000 credits cost $5, and 5,000 credits cost $20. Add-on purchases are used after the plan allowance and do not expire. Sesame says monthly plans offer better value for regular use. Purchases currently run through the iOS and Android apps; subscriptions are managed through the App Store or Google Play. The page says people where the app is unavailable can continue using the Research Preview free for 30 minutes a day, and that more country availability or more web access will be announced as it is added.
What the archive adds
New Runtime's earlier coverage on October 7, 2026 described Sesame's preview as moving toward delegated, tool-using work rather than voice interaction alone: Sesame updates voice agents with their own computers. The plan page adds a new fact to that known story: Sesame now publishes recurring prices and explicit usage limits.
Trend signal
This is a concrete instance of pricing agent use around different kinds of work, but the page does not report cost per verified completed task. It does not yet support New Runtime's pattern that agent economics is moving to completed work; the key unit here remains daily talk time and weekly credits. Agent economics moves to completed work
Why now
Sesame's plans page presents the Research Preview alongside the paid plans and explains how preview users' account allowances apply to web calls. It also says purchases currently go through the mobile app stores, while expansion to more countries or more of the experience on web will be announced later. That makes the pricing and access terms relevant to current users weighing continued use.
Why it matters
For teams evaluating a voice agent, a single “usage” number would obscure the operational limit. Conversation time and task execution consume different allowances, and a task-heavy workflow can hit its credit ceiling while calls remain available. The pause behavior for scheduled tasks is especially consequential: teams should not assume recurring work will continue uninterrupted merely because the assistant can still answer by voice.
Sesame's page makes the trade-off legible enough to test. A builder can estimate daily conversation needs separately from weekly task volume, then check which work is downgraded, restricted, or paused at each limit. The published tiers also make the subscription-versus-add-on decision explicit, although the page does not quantify the value of a credit in terms of completed tasks. For now, the practical question is whether the allowance structure matches a real workload, not simply whether the headline price looks low.
Limits and uncertainty
Sesame's page states the prices and allowance multipliers but does not explain how many credits particular tasks consume, so buyers cannot derive a task count from the published figures alone. It also does not provide measured task completion rates, reliability, or comparative performance across Standard and Max intelligence. The company says availability varies by country and that purchases currently run through the iOS and Android stores; broader country availability and expanded web access remain future announcements. These are the company's stated terms, not an independent assessment of actual usage or performance.
Reader takeaway
Sesame's pricing separates the resource used to keep talking from the credits used to get work done. If you are considering a paid plan, estimate both separately and account for scheduled tasks pausing when weekly credits run out; the page does not yet translate credits into a predictable number of tasks.