Creator Pro is $15/month, or $150 a year if you pay annually — the yearly price is ten months, so two are free.
Everything that makes the Creator Network work is on the free plan: your profile, pitching on briefs, Delivery Rooms, ratings, referral cards, and invoicing at 0% commission. Pro is not the plan that gets you into the platform. It's four specific things, and whether they're worth $15 depends on how much you're pitching and invoicing.
What Pro changes
White-label on shared pitches and invoices. The Acumin footer comes off. What your client receives carries only your name.
An AI pitch assistant. Drafts and tightens your approach from the brief you're pitching on.
25GB of media storage for deliverables, against 2GB on free.
Higher caps on pitch documents, media and clients.
That's the list. It's deliberately short, and it's worth reading for what isn't on it: no better placement, no ranking boost, no priority in search results. Your [Acumin Score](/learn/understanding-your-acumin-score) and where you appear are unaffected by whether you pay. Reputation is earned from delivered bookings and rated work — paying doesn't move it, and a system where it did would be worthless to the brands reading it.
The arithmetic
$15/month is $180 a year, or $150 prepaid. Against a single booking, it's a rounding error. The question isn't affordability, it's whether you're using the things it changes.
The white-label is worth it if you send documents to clients. If you're pitching regularly, or invoicing off-platform clients, what they receive is your business's document rather than one with someone else's brand on it. For anyone positioning as a studio rather than a marketplace freelancer, that's the whole case on its own.
The storage is worth it if you deliver large files. 2GB goes quickly with video. 25GB doesn't.
The pitch assistant is worth it if you pitch often. If you send one pitch a quarter, you don't need drafting help. If you're sending several a week, the drafting time compounds.
The honest case for staying free
The free plan is not a trial and it isn't crippled. You can build a profile, pitch, deliver, get rated, collect referral cards and invoice at 0% commission indefinitely without paying anything.
Stay free if:
- You're just starting and haven't landed bookings yet. Pay when it's replacing effort, not before.
- Your work arrives through referral rather than pitching.
- You deliver small files, or you're already delivering through a client's own system.
- You're testing whether the Network produces work for you at all. Find out first.
There's no urgency here and no artificial deadline. The plan is $15 whenever you decide, and nothing you build on the free plan is lost or downgraded if you never upgrade.
What Pro is not
It's not a commission change. Invoicing is 0% commission on both plans, for bookings and for off-platform clients. Acumin doesn't take a cut of your work on any plan and never touches the money — the client pays you directly.
It's not visibility. Covered above, and worth repeating because it's the thing people assume.
It's not access to briefs. Pitching on briefs is on the free plan.
It's not the brand toolset. Creator Pro is the creator-side subscription. The brand-side plans — Signal Briefs, Concept Reads, Content Analysis, Ad Lab and the rest — are a separate ladder for a different job. If you also run your own brand and want those, that's a different plan, not an upgrade to this one.
The white-label question, specifically
This is the feature people most often under-weight, so it's worth being concrete.
Every pitch you share and every invoice you send lives at its own link. On the free plan, that page identifies the tool it was made with. On Pro, it doesn't.
Whether that matters depends entirely on how you position yourself. If your clients know you as a freelancer who uses various tools, it's cosmetic. If you're presenting as a small studio — and particularly if you're competing against agencies — the difference between "here's my proposal" and "here's my proposal, made in a marketplace tool" is real, even though nobody will ever mention it.
That's the honest framing: it's a positioning feature, not a capability one. Which is a legitimate thing to buy, and it should be bought deliberately rather than because it's on a feature list.
Where this sits
If you're deciding, the order that makes sense is:
- Build your profile properly on the free plan.
- Pitch on a few briefs worth pitching on.
- Deliver something, get rated, see whether the Network works for you.
- Then decide whether the four things above are removing friction you're actually feeling.
Upgrading before step 3 is paying to remove friction you haven't encountered yet.
How to use this today
Count the pitches and invoices you've sent in the last month.
If it's more than a handful, look at what your clients actually received — open one of your own share links as they'd see it, and decide whether the footer matters for how you want to be read.
If it's fewer than a handful, stay on free and revisit in a quarter.
Related: Building a pitch in Pitch Studio is what the assistant helps with. Invoicing through Acumin at 0% commission covers what's the same on both plans.