Free vs Pro on fanTask: What You Actually Need for Your First Project

An honest comparison: why we don't try to upsell Pro on day one

Anyone who has evaluated SaaS developer tooling in recent years knows the frustrating playbook: a "free tier" deliberately hobbled so severely it cannot support a real prototype, an aggressive 14-day trial countdown, or essential core features locked behind an expensive enterprise tier before you even know if the product solves your problem.

When we designed the pricing architecture for fanTask, we operated from a completely different principle: if you are building your first application with an AI coding agent (whether through vibe coding in Claude Code, Google Antigravity, Cursor, or any custom client using the Model Context Protocol), the Free plan should be genuinely sufficient. Not a watered-down demo, but a fully functional engineering tool from your first prompt to your initial production launch.

This article provides a direct, transparent breakdown of what the Free plan delivers, what the Pro tier adds, and how to decide which tier fits your real engineering needs without high-pressure sales rhetoric.

What the Free plan includes (€0)

The Free plan in fanTask requires no credit card, has no expiring trial clock, and introduces zero artificial feature gates on MCP capabilities. Here are the exact numbers and limits:

Price: €0 indefinitely (this is a permanent tier, not a timed trial).
Projects: 1 project at full capability.
Team members: Up to 3 members.
Total task capacity: 100 tasks.
Storage: 200 MB.
Task history search: Last 30 days of completed tasks and audit logs.
Full MCP access (read + write): Unrestricted access to all MCP tools.
Persistent AI Context field: Fully enabled per project.
Web UI for human engineers: Complete interactive board for planning and code review.

Why Free is genuinely enough for a solo vibe coder

Let us examine what these limits actually mean in practice for an independent developer or technical founder:

One project at 100% capacity: When you start building a new software idea, you have one codebase, one git repository, and one primary goal. Your fanTask project gives you a dedicated board, an isolated API token, and a durable memory layer. You do not need multiple project workspaces before you have validated your first MVP.
Zero MCP tool restrictions: Your AI coding assistant has access to the exact same MCP toolset as an enterprise user: get_project_context, search_tasks, get_task, update_task, create_task, and add_comment. Response latency and read/write capabilities are completely unthrottled.
Persistent AI Context: The core feature of fanTask — a living document that stores architectural boundaries, security gotchas, library constraints, and official test commands — is fully active on the Free plan. Every time an agent connects over MCP, it ingests this context immediately, eliminating cold-start amnesia.
100 tasks is a generous runway: A well-structured MVP typically consists of 20 to 50 well-scoped tasks (auth scaffolding, data schema, primary API routes, third-party integrations, styling, and deployment checks). A 100-task ceiling provides ample room to build, refine, and ship version 1.0 to your first users.

The takeaway is straightforward: if you are a solo builder working on your first project, you do not need Pro today. The Free plan provides everything necessary to maintain order, continuity, and high engineering speed.

What Pro adds and the real pricing figures

The Pro plan is built for builders whose scope has expanded beyond a single product, or teams collaborating across multiple codebases. Our commercial terms are transparent and predictable:

Launch pricing: €9 / user / month billed annually (saves 10% compared to monthly billing, totaling €108/year per seat). Alternatively, €10 / user / month billed monthly for month-to-month flexibility. All prices are in EUR and exclude VAT where applicable. Early adopters lock in these launch rates for the lifetime of their active subscription.
Projects: Unlimited (compared to 1 on Free).
Team members: Unlimited (compared to 3 on Free).
Task capacity: Unlimited (compared to 100 total on Free).
Storage: 20 GB (compared to 200 MB on Free).
Task history search: Unlimited retention depth (compared to the last 30 days on Free).
Support: Priority email assistance directly from our engineering team.

Who genuinely needs the Pro plan?

Upgrading to Pro becomes a logical and productive investment under three specific conditions:

1. You build multiple concurrent projects

If you are a freelancer, an agency engineer, or an entrepreneur managing multiple apps simultaneously, each project requires its own architectural context and task history. Forcing two unrelated codebases into a single task board would pollute the AI Context and confuse agents during task searches. On Pro, you can create dedicated projects for each client or app, each with its own isolated token and living context document.

2. Your team grows beyond 3 collaborators

When your engineering team expands to include additional developers, designers, or product managers, the 3-member limit on Free becomes a natural stopping point. Pro removes seat constraints entirely, allowing your entire team to share visibility, review pull requests, and collaborate alongside AI agents.

3. Your application is mature with a long audit history

On the Free plan, task history search covers completed items from the last 30 days — older tasks are never deleted, but they exit the agent's active search index. If your project has been running in production for six months and you want an AI agent to investigate how a particular database migration or SDK edge case was resolved last year via search_tasks, Pro provides an unlimited historical audit index.

Plan Comparison: Free vs Pro

Here is a side-by-side summary of the differences:

Pricing: Free is €0 indefinitely; Pro is €9/user/mo (annual) or €10/user/mo (monthly).
Projects: 1 on Free vs. Unlimited on Pro.
Included members: Up to 3 on Free vs. Unlimited on Pro.
Task limit: 100 tasks on Free vs. Unlimited on Pro.
Storage allowance: 200 MB on Free vs. 20 GB on Pro.
Historical search depth: Last 30 days on Free vs. Unlimited on Pro.
MCP capabilities & AI Context: 100% identical on both tiers.

What fanTask is and is not: fanTask is an MCP-native project and task tracking platform with durable AI memory. It is not an automated website builder or an autonomous app generator. Your AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Antigravity, Cursor) write the code in your own local environment; fanTask provides the memory, architecture rules, and issue tracking that keep them on track.

Our honest recommendation: where to start

Our recommendation is straightforward: start with the Free tier. Sign up for fanTask, enable your MCP access token, and connect your preferred AI coding tool. Document your architecture boundaries in the persistent AI Context field and build your first project using our recommended workflow.

Do not upgrade until you hit a hard limit: when you start a second project, invite a fourth collaborator, or cross the 100-task threshold. When that day arrives, Pro is ready. Until then, build your product on Free without spending a single euro.

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