Pricing
The calculator is free. Always.
No account, up to 5,000 parts a job, no run limit, and every optimisation method. We make our money on the API and on the shops that put a plan in their cutter's hands, not by paywalling blade width.
Free
$0forever
The whole calculator, and the same solver every paid plan uses. No account, no run limit, jobs up to 5,000 parts.
Open the calculator- Every optimisation method, including Cutter's Dream
- Kerf, end trim, offcut rack, mitre cuts
- Provably optimal plans, verified before you see them
- PDF and CSV export
- 10 saved projects, with a free account
- No card, no trial, no expiry
Paid plans add the API, saved projects, and the shop.
Hobby
$5/month
The API, for a side project.
- 500 API requests a month
- 10 saved projects
- Same solver as every tier
Maker
$19/month
The API, in something real.
- 3,000 API requests a month
- 200 saved projects
- Priority support
Workshop
$59/month
The shop. Teams and Saw Mode.
- 12,000 API requests a month
- Team of 5
- Saw Mode on every tablet
- Shared jobs, notes and dockets
Business
$99/month
A bigger shop, or a busy API.
- 30,000 API requests a month (about 1,000 a day)
- Team of 20
- Saw Mode on every tablet
- Priority support
Billed monthly, cancel anytime. Overage is off by default: if you run out of API requests, the calls simply stop until the month turns over and you are charged nothing. You can switch overage on if you would rather they kept working, and it comes with a spend cap you set yourself, which is a hard stop rather than a warning. Either way, no invoice you did not choose.
What Saw Mode actually is
The office plans a job. The person at the saw opens it on a tablet and ticks each piece off as they cut it. Bar 1 of 6, six parts on it, one big target each. Tap, cut, tap.
It is built for a hand in a glove, not a mouse: nothing on the screen is small, the plan cannot be edited from it, and the screen does not go to sleep between cuts.
It works with the wifi off. Shop wifi behind a steel wall is not something you can design around, only around its failure. Ticks are kept on the tablet and sync when the signal comes back, so the cutter never stops and never loses their place.
Meanwhile the office watches the job go from ready to cutting to done, without anyone ringing anyone.
PO-1182
Henderson balustrade
Bar 1 of 6 · 1/32 parts cut
Teams: the shop, not a login you share
A shared password is how a cutter accidentally re-solves a job halfway through a bar. Everyone gets their own way in, and the roles mean what they say:
Owner
Everything, including billing and seats.
Admin
Invites people and manages the jobs. No billing.
Staff
The office: quotes and plans the jobs. No billing, no hiring.
Cutter
Opens a plan and ticks parts off. Cannot change the job, which is the point: the plan on the tablet is the plan being cut to.
The API is cheap on purpose
| Plan | Requests / month | Price | Per 1,000 requests |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | 500 | $5 | $10.00 |
| Maker | 3,000 | $19 | $6.33 |
| Workshop | 12,000 | $59 | $4.92 |
| Business | 30,000 | $99 | $3.30 |
| optiCutter Enterprise API | 5,000 | €99 | €19.80 |
Their prices as published in July 2026, and they charge €0.02 for every request past the 5,000. Ours stop instead. Same JSON in, same solver, same proof of optimality: the documentation is public and there is a live playground on the API page.
Questions people actually ask
Is the free calculator really free, or is it a trial?
Do I need a plan to save my jobs?
We are a two-person shop. Do we need Workshop?
What happens if we go over the API limit?
Can we pay for extra seats?
Start with the free one
It is the same solver the paid plans use. Nothing is held back.
Open the calculator