Stage Engine costs nothing to download. The plans are $0, $10 and $50 a month.

The download is free. The Free plan is $0 a month, Indie is $10 a month, and Pro is $50 a month. That is the whole price list.

They are monthly subscriptions rather than a licence you buy once. There is no team plan, no per-seat pricing and no enterprise tier, because this is a desktop app that one person sits in front of.

The software is identical on all three. Mac and Windows, Godot bundled inside the app, your game running locally on your own machine when you press play.

AI usage, and nothing else. Director 1 writes the GDScript for your game through a model that runs over the network and costs money per request. Asset generation is the same. Those are real per-use costs and they are the entire reason there is a price at all.

It is not a licence to the engine. Godot is open source and free, and a copy of it ships inside the app on every plan including the free one. Nobody is renting you a renderer.

It is not storage either. Your projects are folders on your own disk, so there is nothing being kept for you and no plan that sells you more room to keep it in.

The builder, the engine, Director 1 himself, and everything you do with your hands. Paying more does not unlock a better model, a larger world, a higher resolution, or an export button that the free plan was withholding.

That is worth stating plainly, because the usual shape in this market is a free tier that is really a demo: a watermark on the output, a cap on the project size, or a save button that turns into a card form. This one is the same software with less usage attached to it.

It also means upgrading is a decision about how much you are building this month, not a decision about what kind of game you are allowed to make.

How much of the work you hand over. Building by hand does not meter. Sculpting terrain, drawing a lake, setting the weather and the time of day, placing buildings and characters is you working on your own machine, and it costs nothing. What draws down a plan is asking Director 1 for behaviour and generating assets.

There is one habit that costs more than any choice of plan, which is asking for the same thing eight times in slightly different words and hoping one version lands. Deciding what you want, asking once, playing the result and then saying precisely what is wrong is both cheaper and faster. Nothing in the app enforces that. It is just how the arithmetic works.

Your computer. The game runs on your hardware, so how large and busy a world you can build is bounded by the machine far more than by the plan you are on.

A store, if you take the game to one. Putting a game on Steam has its own costs, and the app itemises them at the point you submit rather than quoting them on a page like this, because they come from the current schedule and not from something written months earlier.

Beyond that, billing questions belong elsewhere. Cancelling and charges that look wrong are covered on the refunds page, and the terms of the subscription are on the terms page. This page is the price list, not the contract.