Licensing
Meno comes in two tiers: a Free tier that's enough to build and ship real projects, and a Pro tier that unlocks the full editor. You don't paste license keys anywhere — your tier is tied to your account and recognized automatically when you sign in with GitHub.
There are two ways to get Pro: upgrade yourself as an individual, or get a seat through your organization's Team plan. Both are billed through Polar, Meno's payments and subscription provider.
Free vs Pro
The Free tier lets you create projects, edit .astro files in the visual editor, and publish a real site. It's the right place to start and fine for personal and small projects.
The Pro tier removes the Free limits and turns on the advanced editor features — more room to grow a project, the collaboration features, and the full toolset. You can compare the exact limits on the Meno pricing page, which always reflects current tiers and prices.
The important distinction is who pays and what the upgrade covers:
Free — the default for every account, no payment, no expiry.
Individual Pro — a personal upgrade that travels with you across your own projects.
Team plan — organization seats that grant Pro on that organization's projects.
Individual Pro
Individual Pro is a personal upgrade for one person. Once you're on Individual Pro, you get the Pro tier on the projects you own — your own work, under your own account.
To upgrade, open the Upgrade action in Meno. It opens a Polar checkout; once the payment goes through, your account is Pro the next time Meno checks in. There's nothing to copy back into the editor.
Individual Pro is the simplest path when you're working solo. If you're collaborating inside a shared GitHub organization, a Team plan is usually the better fit — see below.
Team plan (seats via Polar)
A Team plan gives Pro to a group of people working under a single GitHub organization. Instead of each person buying their own Individual Pro, an org admin buys a number of seats in one place.
To start a Team plan, an admin uses the Upgrade to Team action inside Meno. This opens a Polar checkout tied to your GitHub organization, where you choose how many seats you need. Each seated member gets the Pro tier on that organization's projects.
Buying seats is a single subscription managed by the org — you add or remove people as your team changes, rather than juggling separate personal upgrades. See Organizations for how org membership and projects fit together, and GitHub for how Meno connects to your GitHub account and orgs.
How seats are recognized
Seat recognition is automatic — there are no license keys to generate, paste, or activate.
When a teammate signs into Meno with GitHub, Meno reads their verified GitHub email and matches it against the seats claimed on your organization's Team plan. If their email holds a seat, Meno unlocks the Pro tier for them on that organization's projects. If not, they stay on Free until a seat is assigned.
Because the match is on your verified GitHub email, the flow is: an admin assigns a seat to an email, the teammate signs in with the GitHub account that owns that email, and Pro is on. Nothing is stored in your repository — your tier comes from your account, not from a file in the project.
Managing seats in Polar
Seat management lives in the Polar Customer Portal, not in a separate Meno admin panel. Meno opens Polar for you, and Polar is where the admin does the day-to-day work:
Invite a teammate by entering their email to assign them a seat.
Remove a teammate by their email to free the seat up again.
Change the seat count to scale the subscription up or down.
Manage billing — payment method, invoices, and renewal.
You can reach the portal any time from the Upgrade to Team / manage action in Meno, which opens the Polar checkout when you're getting started and the customer portal once a subscription exists.
Scope
Seats are scoped to the organization that bought them. An org's Team plan grants Pro on that organization's projects — the work that lives under the org.
It does not extend Pro to a member's personal projects. If you hold a Team seat and also want Pro on your own private work outside the org, that's what Individual Pro is for. The two can coexist: a seat covers org projects, an individual upgrade covers your own.
For the surrounding workflow, see Organizations for org setup and membership, the Dashboard for managing your projects, and GitHub for connecting your account.