Frequently Asked Questions

SKYCOT does not offer a free tier. The Starter plan at $19/month provides 2M tokens and access to simpler archetypes (Landing Page, Portfolio & Blog, Booking). This keeps infrastructure costs sustainable and ensures every user gets reliable, fast builds.

You can continue building beyond your plan's token limit. Overage tokens are billed at your plan's overage rate — $12 per million tokens on Starter, $8 on Pro, and $5 on Business. Overage charges appear on your next invoice. You can set a spending cap in your account settings to prevent unexpected charges.

Yes. Upgrading takes effect immediately and the price difference is prorated for the remainder of your billing cycle. Downgrading takes effect at the start of your next billing cycle to ensure you keep access to your current tier's features until the period ends.

Tokens consumed during a failed build are deducted from your allowance, since the AI models were still invoked. However, SKYCOT's automatic recovery system often resolves failures without restarting the entire build, minimising wasted tokens. If a build fails completely and cannot be recovered, contact support for a case-by-case review.

SKYCOT uses confidence-based routing. If no archetype scores above the confidence threshold, the Custom fallback activates. In this mode, SKYCOT asks more detailed questions to understand your requirements and builds the application from first principles without archetype assumptions. The result is the same production-quality output — it just requires a few more questions to get there.

Yes. When your description spans multiple categories (for example, a marketplace with a built-in booking system), SKYCOT detects partial confidence across multiple archetypes and composes a hybrid template. The hybrid blends database schemas, API routes, and UI patterns from each matching archetype into a single coherent application.

Build time depends on complexity. A simple landing page takes 2-4 minutes. A medium-complexity CRUD application with authentication and payments takes 5-10 minutes. A complex SaaS dashboard with multiple user roles and integrations can take 10-20 minutes. The build progress panel shows real-time updates for every session.

Yes. You can start a new build on the same project to add features, change styling, or modify business logic. SKYCOT reads the existing project state and generates only the new or changed code. You can also download the source code and continue development in your own editor.

Yes, completely. All generated code is yours. There are no licensing restrictions, royalty requirements, or attribution obligations. You can modify it, deploy it elsewhere, open-source it, or sell it. SKYCOT retains no rights to your generated applications.

Yes. The file explorer in the builder lets you browse every generated file. You can download the entire project as a ZIP archive or clone the Git repository. The exported code is a standard Next.js project that runs with pnpm install and pnpm dev — no proprietary runtime required.

Your project descriptions, build configurations, and generated code are stored in your account and are not shared with other users. SKYCOT sends your requirements to Anthropic's Claude API for code generation. Anthropic's API has a zero-data-retention policy for commercial API usage, meaning your inputs are not used to train models.

No. Your deployed application runs on your own Vercel and Supabase accounts. SKYCOT has no access to your production database, user records, or application traffic after deployment. The credentials used during deployment are not stored by SKYCOT after the deployment completes.

The one-click deploy targets Vercel + Supabase because they offer the best developer experience for Next.js applications. However, since you own the full source code, you can deploy the frontend to any platform that supports Next.js (Netlify, AWS Amplify, Railway) and the database to any PostgreSQL host. You would need to configure environment variables and deployment pipelines manually.

Vercel's free Hobby plan supports most small to medium applications. Supabase's free tier includes 500 MB of database storage and 50,000 monthly active users. For production applications with higher traffic, Vercel Pro ($20/month) and Supabase Pro ($25/month) cover the vast majority of use cases. These costs are separate from your SKYCOT subscription.

When you deploy to SKYCOT managed hosting, each project requires dedicated database infrastructure. This costs $10/month per project. Your subscription tier includes free deployments (Pro: 1 free, Business: 2 free). Additional projects are $10/month each. If you deploy to your own Vercel + Supabase accounts, there is no deployment fee.

Yes! SKYCOT generates standard Next.js + Supabase code. You can deploy to your own Vercel and Supabase accounts at no extra cost from SKYCOT. The deployment fee only applies to SKYCOT-managed hosting where we provision and manage the infrastructure for you.

Yes. When you build additional features on an existing project, SKYCOT generates new Drizzle migrations for any schema changes. During redeployment, these migrations run automatically against your Supabase database. The migration system is additive by default — it adds new tables and columns without dropping existing data.

There is no limit on the number of projects. Your plan limits apply to monthly token usage, not project count. You can create as many projects as you like and build them over multiple billing cycles.

Yes, you can cancel anytime from your account settings. You retain access to all features until the end of your current billing period. Your projects, generated code, and deployment configurations remain accessible even after cancellation — you just cannot start new builds.

Your projects and all generated code remain in your account and are accessible for download. Deployed applications continue running on Vercel and Supabase independently of your SKYCOT subscription. You can resubscribe at any time to resume building.