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Startup This page applies only to workspaces on the Startup plan. For prices, see embedder.com/pricing. A Startup workspace is a team on the Startup plan. Commands and other pages say team: /team switches between workspaces, including your personal one.

Shared credits

A Startup workspace has one pool of credits that every seat draws on. The month’s included credits refill on the renewal date. Credits the owner adds carry over until they’re spent. In VS Code, a credits meter appears beside the context meter once half of the credits are used. Hover over it to see what’s left, what the month includes, purchased credits, the refill date, and whether auto-reload is on. The owner can select the meter to add credits. The terminal UI has no meter. From 80% used, the owner sees a notice once a month, unless auto-reload is already on. In VS Code, it offers Add credits and Set up auto-reload. In the terminal UI, it’s a banner with what’s left and the refill date. Auto-reload buys a set amount of credits whenever the pool drops below a threshold, up to a monthly limit. Set up auto-reload opens the web app, where the owner chooses the amount and the limit.

When the credits run out

When the pool is empty, VS Code shows a prompt in place of the chat input, and the terminal UI shows a banner above the input. Both say when the credits refill. If the workspace used credits past zero, that amount comes off what the owner adds. If Use fast model is offered in VS Code, choose it to keep working. In the terminal UI, the banner says when /model can switch you to the fast model. Switching to your personal workspace doesn’t help, because your seat draws on the same shared credits there. When credits arrive, the hold lifts on its own, and Embedder says the workspace has shared credits again. If the owner added them from the VS Code prompt, the stopped reply continues in that chat. Anywhere else, send continue to pick up the stopped reply.

When a renewal payment fails

If the workspace’s renewal payment doesn’t go through, new work in that workspace waits until it’s paid.
  • Owner: choose Update card, then Try again. In the terminal UI, run /credits to open the same choices.
  • Member: the owner needs to update the card.
Either way, you can keep working in your personal workspace: choose Switch to your personal workspace in VS Code, or run /team in the terminal UI.

When the plan ends

A workspace whose Startup plan has ended is read-only. Its conversations stay open to read, and new work waits until the plan restarts. Before a plan that’s set to end closes, the owner sees a notice once.
  • Owner: choose Restart Startup, which opens the web app.
  • Member: choose Ask owner to restart, or run /ask-owner in the terminal UI. Embedder emails the owner once.
  • Anyone: choose Switch to your personal workspace, or run /team in the terminal UI, to keep working.

Commands

Last modified on November 13, 2026