Last updated: April 20, 2026
Orion bills three things separately. You can have any combination — or none at all. This page explains what each one is, how you're charged, and what happens when you run out.
They don't overlap. Talking to Orion inside the app is covered by the main plan, not the phone plan. Owning a phone number is its own monthly charge, separate from the phone plan that gives you call minutes.
Everything Orion does as an AI — replies, tool calls, agent runs, image or voice generation, in-app voice chat — comes out of one shared allowance tied to your main plan (Free, Plus, Pro, or Max).
Instead of "X messages per month" that reset once on the 1st, Orion uses two rolling allowances that are always refilling:
You don't wait for a "reset day." Capacity frees up continuously as your older activity ages out. If either allowance is full, Orion pauses new requests and tells you exactly how long until you can keep going.
Upgrades take effect immediately — your new, higher allowance applies right away.
Our most powerful models (the ones based on Opus-class and Sonnet-class reasoning) have their own separate allowances because each answer is far more expensive to generate. This means you can burn through an "advanced" session without touching your main allowance — and vice versa.
If your advanced-model allowance is empty, Orion suggests a standard model you can switch to — your main allowance is untouched.
Each plan has a limit on how many scheduled routines can be active at the same time (one-time or recurring). You can always create more once you archive old ones.
Plus, Pro, and Max users can turn on optional pay-as-you-go in billing settings. If you run out of your main allowance, Orion keeps working and charges only for what you actually use past it. You set a threshold (between $5 and $100) — when pending overage hits that amount, it's charged to your card and reset to $0.
Extra usage is opt-in and off by default. If you don't enable it, Orion just pauses at the limit — nothing is ever silently charged.
The phone plan pays for actual telephone-network minutes — calls to and from a real phone number you own. Most people don't need this; it's an add-on.
Phone plan only covers external calls. Talking to Orion inside the app — voice chat with your representative — comes out of your main plan's AI allowance, not your phone-plan minutes.
Annual billing is available on all three tiers — you pay for 10 months and get 12, so two months are effectively free.
If you run out, calls keep working. Extra minutes are billed at:
You stay in control of the cap. In billing settings you can set a monthly and/or daily overage spend limit. Once a cap is hit, calls pause until the next window or until you raise the cap. Default is unlimited, meaning overage is allowed until you say otherwise.
Orion pauses outbound and inbound calling automatically if: your payment method fails, your card is missing, unusual call patterns trigger a safety check, or your overage cap is reached. Every freeze shows a clear reason and a one-click way to resolve it (update card, retry, raise the cap).
A phone number is the actual 10-digit line Orion picks up on. It's separate from the phone plan: the phone plan buys minutes; the number purchase buys the line itself.
Phone numbers don't require a phone plan, but they're most useful with one. Without a phone plan, every minute of every call is charged at overage rates.
No matter which limit you bump into, a few things are always true:
Check live usage on the dashboard. Ready to change plans? Compare plans. Anything else: support@meetorion.com.