Plan limits
CardBoard is free to author, and paid to author at scale. The self-serve plans are Free, Pro, and Team. A negotiated Enterprise tier covers organizations that run multiple workspaces.
The monetization gate is capacity, not features. Integrations, MCP agents, exports, and guest collaboration are open on every plan — including Free. What you buy is board capacity and author seats.
The two walls
Section titled “The two walls”| Free | Pro | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boards | 3 (can’t be deleted) | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Author seats (members) | 1 | 1 | Many (per seat) |
| Price | $0 | $20/mo | $30/seat/mo |
- Boards are the first wall. A free workspace gets three boards and can’t delete them, so once they fill up you move to Pro or Team for unlimited boards.
- A second author is the second wall. Free and Pro are single-member workspaces. Adding teammates who author requires Team, which adds seats.
What a seat is
Section titled “What a seat is”A seat is one member — an accountable, audit-attributable identity who can author: create boards, direct MCP agents acting in their name, and sync cards to your tracker.
Guests are free, forever. They view, comment, react, and edit non-tracker-linked cards, and they’re never a billing line item — you don’t pay for participation, only for the capacity to author. (Guests are blocked from governance and from attributable external writes: they can’t manage, delete, export, or edit tracker-linked cards.)
What’s the same on every plan
Section titled “What’s the same on every plan”- Unlimited cards per board
- Azure DevOps & Jira tracker sync
- MCP agents (REST API access additionally requires the workspace’s API flag)
- CSV import / export
- Unlimited free guests
SSO (SAML), audit-log access, and provisioning are Enterprise capabilities.
Enterprise
Section titled “Enterprise”Enterprise is a negotiated, sales-led tier for organizations running multiple workspaces. Its defining capability is cross-workspace membership: a person can be a member of several workspaces (teams or projects) without paying a separate seat in each. Pricing is a negotiated combination of how many workspaces and how many people — not seats multiplied by workspace — so the same people can work across many teams at one cost. Enterprise also adds SSO (SAML), audit-log access, and provisioning.