Plans, licences and the trial

Every website takes a licence, and the licence is that website's plan: Standard, Pro or Managed, paid monthly or yearly. You buy licences first, as many as you need, then choose one each time you make a website. A workspace with three websites holds three licences, and each one can be on a different plan.

A licence that is not on a website is spare. A spare licence is what New website needs; with none spare, the button is greyed out and says how to get one. Deleting a website frees its licence, so it is spare again for the next website.

Standard is a business website on your own domain or the included cubesites.site address, with the full editor, a blog, contact forms and a team page, up to 50 pages. Pro adds what bigger websites need: up to 200 pages, a staging address, advanced SEO (redirects, business details for search engines and SEO checks), more than one language, custom code, a product catalogue and an online shop, and AI assistants such as ChatGPT or Claude working in their own copy of the website.

A few features belong to the whole workspace and come with any active Pro licence in it: the API, requiring two-step sign-in for everyone, and the audit log. AI and storage allowances add up across the active licences. Managed is arranged with Cube Systems: our team builds and looks after the website for you, and you can still edit everything yourself.

A new workspace starts with a 14-day trial and no card. The trial gives one trial licence, so one website, working as Pro unless you choose Standard. Under Your trial on the Licences page, Try it as switches between the two as often as you like while the trial lasts.

The trial builds and previews everything, including private preview links, but it cannot publish. When the website is ready, Buy a licence for this website replaces the trial licence with a bought one, and the website can be published straight away.

If the trial ends without a licence being bought, the workspace becomes read-only: everything can be read, previewed and downloaded, and published websites stay online, but nothing can be changed until a licence is bought. The card at the bottom of the menu and a notice at the top say so, with Buy a licence beside them.

A payment that fails shows its own notice. Stripe tries again over the next few days; change the card under Plans and billing and nothing else changes. Nothing is deleted in either case.