Raycast pricing, free plan and limits

Last updated: 2026-10-04

Raycast is a keyboard-driven launcher for macOS, Windows and iOS with more than 3,000 extensions, according to its Enterprise page. It combines clipboard history, snippets and window management with Raycast AI, which sends chats and commands to models from many providers through one hotkey.

About Raycast

Raycast is a keyboard launcher started in London in 2020 by Thomas Paul Mann (CEO) and Petr Nikolaev (CTO), two former Facebook engineers who built it to cut the tool-switching they ran into as developers. It raised a $30 million Series B on 25 September 2024, led by Atomico, to take the product beyond macOS. Windows and iOS apps now ship, and the macOS build reached version 2.6 on 2 October 2026.

One hotkey opens a search box that finds apps, files and commands, then acts on them. The built-in set covers clipboard history, snippets, quicklinks, window management, a calculator, a calendar and Raycast Notes, and the free plan includes them, with limits on clipboard history and Notes but no AI. Raycast AI sits in the same box. Quick AI answers a question in place, AI Chat keeps longer conversations, and AI Commands run saved prompts such as Fix Spelling and Grammar on selected text. The models come from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Mistral AI and others. The lineup includes GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.1 Pro and DeepSeek V4 Pro.

Two details separate it from a plain chatbot app. The first is reach: AI Extensions let the assistant act inside tools such as Linear, GitHub, Slack and Notion, and servers that speak the Model Context Protocol can be added over stdio or HTTP. The extension list shows connectors for notes in Notion, meetings in Granola, code in Cursor and design in Figma. The second is billing. You can connect a Claude plan you already pay for, a ChatGPT plan, an API key, or a local model through Ollama, and the vendor says usage through your own subscription or key does not consume Raycast credits.

Privacy is mostly local by design. The vendor states that data stays on your computer, that Cloud Sync is what puts AI chats on its servers (encrypted at rest and in transit), and that its agreements with AI providers prohibit training on your interactions. Those are vendor statements rather than audit findings, and the SOC 2 Type II report is listed on the Enterprise page. The 2.6 release shows the pace of work: the vendor reports its host process now uses about 50% less memory, and a reworked Auto model lets you choose Lightweight, Balanced or Flagship, with Balanced using about 70% fewer credits than Flagship by its own account.

If dictation is the main job, Wispr Flow is the narrower specialist, while Raycast treats dictation as one feature among many. If you only want a multi-model chat window with no launcher, Poe skips that layer entirely. Both sit alongside Raycast in the chat and assistant category.

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Pricing

com/pricing on 4 October 2026. Free is $0 and has no AI. Pro is $10 a month or $96 a year (the page shows it as $8 a month on yearly billing).

Plus is $20 a month ($192 a year) and Max is $50 a month ($480 a year); the top-tier models need Plus or Max. Teams Pro starts at $15 per user a month ($144 a year per user at the Pro level), with Plus at $25 and Max at $65 per user a month. Enterprise is custom and billed annually.

Subscriptions you already hold with an AI vendor can be connected without drawing down Raycast credits.

Key Features

• Launcher with clipboard history: Opens apps, searches files and keeps clipboard history for 3 months on Free and without a time limit on Pro, all from one global hotkey.
• Multi-model Raycast AI: Quick AI, AI Chat and AI Commands send work to 58 models from 11 providers listed on its models page, most with a 200k context window.
• Extensions and AI Extensions: More than 3,000 extensions (vendor figure) connect services such as Slack, Notion and GitHub, and the community repo is MIT licensed.
• Agents and automations: Custom agents carry their own instructions, model and project memory, and automations can run an agent on a daily schedule.
• Bring your own subscription or key: Claude or ChatGPT subscriptions, API keys and local Ollama models plug in, and the vendor says that usage does not consume Raycast credits.
• MCP server support: External Model Context Protocol servers connect over stdio or HTTP, and their tools appear in AI Chat, Quick AI and AI Commands.
• Cross-device sync: Pro Cloud Sync keeps Snippets, Notes and AI chats in step between Mac, Windows and iOS, and Enterprise admins can switch it off organization-wide.

Pros

• The free plan has no expiry and is licensed for use at work, so a team can adopt the launcher before anyone pays for AI.
• Pro syncs snippets, notes and AI chats across Mac, Windows and iPhone, which suits a split-OS workday.
• The open extensions repo on GitHub was still receiving commits on 3 October 2026, a sign the community behind the extension library is active.
• Auto model preferences stretch a small credit balance, because the vendor says the Balanced setting uses about 70% fewer credits than Flagship.

Cons

• There is no AI-free paid plan: Cloud Sync, themes and unlimited Notes all come bundled with AI, so a buyer who wants none of it still pays for it.
• AI usage is metered in credits, and unused monthly credits expire 60 days after they are granted, so heavy months can run out and quiet months do not bank.
• The models included at the entry Pro level are the fast tier, and the top-tier models need Plus or Max.
• The vendor's site lists apps for macOS, Windows and iOS only, so an Android phone or a Linux desktop is not covered.

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