Guest access: $5 -> $2 of credits; trim page to essentials

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- **API access** for your own tools and projects (see [API access](api-access.md)). - **API access** for your own tools and projects (see [API access](api-access.md)).
- **A monthly usage allowance** of $15 of credit, shared between chat and API. - **A monthly usage allowance** of $15 of credit, shared between chat and API.
- **Credit packs** — buy extra non-expiring credits when you need more. - **Credit packs** — buy extra non-expiring credits when you need more.
- **Guest access** — give a friend $5 of credit and 60 days of the co-op. - **Guest access** — give a friend $2 of credit and 60 days of the co-op.
See [Guest access](guest-access.md). See [Guest access](guest-access.md).
- **A voice in governance** — how the project is run and where it goes next. - **A voice in governance** — how the project is run and where it goes next.
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# Guest access # Guest access
Membership comes with something to share: any member can **give a friend Any member can **give a friend guest access to the co-op**: **$2 of AI usage
guest access to the co-op**. Guest access is **$5 of AI usage for 60 days** — the friend for 60 days**, spent in the chat and the API. It doesn't come out of your own
gets their own account and spends it in the chat and the API, with a balance. You can send it once every 30 days, and an address can receive it
dashboard showing what's left. only once.
Guest access doesn't come out of your own balance. You can send guest access
once every 30 days, and an address can receive it only once — guest access is
for people new to the co-op.
## How to send guest access ## How to send guest access
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name and email address. They get an **invitation email** from the co-op, name and email address. They get an **invitation email** from the co-op,
naming you, with a link to set up their account — it takes about a minute. naming you, with a link to set up their account — it takes about a minute.
## What your guest receives ## What your guest gets
- **The invitation email** with their setup link. - **$2 of credit** for the chat and the API — a hard cap: usage stops when
- **$5 of credit** for the chat and the API, ready on their first login. The it's spent.
$5 is a hard cap — usage stops when it's spent.
- **Their own dashboard** at - **Their own dashboard** at
[dashboard.inference.coop](https://dashboard.inference.coop) showing what's [dashboard.inference.coop](https://dashboard.inference.coop) showing what's
left. left.
- **The weekly newsletter** by email. - **The weekly newsletter** and these public docs.
- **These docs** — public to everyone already.
Their access runs for **60 days**; the credits themselves don't expire early. Guest access is not membership — no Matrix, governance forum, or vote.
## What guests can't do ## When it ends
Guest access is not membership. Guests don't get Matrix, the governance When **the $2 is spent or the 60 days are up**, whichever comes first, your
forum, or any vote in the co-op — the chat, the API, the dashboard, the docs friend gets an email saying so. Access stops; **the account and its data are
and the newsletter are the whole of it. On their dashboard, a **Become a member** kept** — and a guest can end it early with the **Cancel guest access** link
button sits where members see the credit-pack option. on their dashboard.
## When guest access ends ## Becoming a member
Guest access ends when **the $5 is spent or the 60 days are up**, whichever comes Contribute on
first, and your friend gets an email saying so. Access stops, but **the
account and its data are kept** — if they become members later, everything
picks up where it left off.
## Cancelling early
A guest can end their own guest access at any time, with the **Cancel guest access**
link on their dashboard. Unspent credit returns to the co-op; the account and
its data are kept.
## From guest to membership
Becoming a member works the same for a guest as for anyone: contribute on
[Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/inference-cooperative/contribute) [Open Collective](https://opencollective.com/inference-cooperative/contribute)
and the account converts automatically — same login, same dashboard. Any and the account converts automatically — same login, same dashboard. Any
unspent guest credit carries over onto the member balance. See unspent guest credit carries over. See
[Become a member](getting-started.md#1-become-a-member) for how membership [Become a member](getting-started.md#1-become-a-member) for how membership
works. works.