Plans from $4.99 a month.
What comes with a build
Each build comes with its parts list, instructions, 1-click Amazon cart and 3D file at no extra cost. The parts list, instructions, 1-click Amazon cart and 3D file are free on every build you make, except builds our check marks Not checked or Concept. Not checked means we can't check that kind of machine yet. Concept means our check says it won't work as drawn. A build that our check ends as a Concept costs no BuildBux 3 times a day, then 5 like any build, and the first Fix it for me on a Concept is free.Plan buttons join a list: nothing is charged and no card is asked for until checkout opens.
All four plans.
What happens to your BuildBux at the end of the month
- Free accounts: if your balance is under 5 when a new month starts, we top it back up to 5. It is a top-up to a floor, not 5 added on top, so a free balance cannot be stacked month after month.
- Pro Builder + and Pro: unused BuildBux roll over while the subscription is active, so a month you barely build is not a month you wasted. This is the main reason to be on Pro rather than Starter +, and it is why Pro costs slightly more per BuildBux.
- Starter + and Starter: that month's BuildBux are for that month. They do not roll over. The moment your next payment succeeds, the new month's BuildBux replace your balance instead of being added to it.
- We warn you first. On Starter and Starter +, if you are holding unused BuildBux we email you about ten days before they are replaced, with the date and the number. Nothing disappears without notice, and nothing is replaced unless a payment actually succeeded. A declined card never costs you BuildBux.
- If you cancel, you keep the rest of the month you paid for, and you keep the BuildBux already in your account after that too. Cancelling does not empty your balance. The plan's perks stop; the credit stays and you can spend it as a free account. Set out in section 2c of the Terms.
Before you join a plan list
Every plan above is a monthly subscription, not a one-time pack. When payments open, your method is charged the plan price on the day you start and then the same amount on the same date every month, automatically, with no end date, until you cancel. Prices are in US dollars and exclude any tax that applies.
Cancelling takes one step and we never make it awkward. No phone call, no retention offers, no explaining yourself. Cancel and you keep everything you already paid for through to the end of that month. There are no partial-month refunds. Full detail in section 2c of the Terms.
Pay as you go. Built, not switched on.
For the maker who runs twenty small edits in an afternoon. A flat 5 BuildBux a build is the right price for a build and the wrong price for a tweak. Metered pricing bills what the work actually used, at cost, instead of a flat rate. It is opt-in, off by default, and never turns itself on.
The rate
Top-ups are one-time, never a subscription
The brakes, because this one charges a card
There is no button here on purpose. The code is written and the switch is off. We are not putting a control on this page until it can actually take a payment. That is exactly the thing this page just stopped doing. It opens after subscriptions do, and everyone on a plan list gets the email.
Every plan, side by side.
Free accounts get 5 BuildBux to start. At the top of each month, a balance under 5 is topped back up to 5: a floor, not 5 more on top. Whatever you hold stays yours.
Two things you may have seen advertised here before and will not see now: featured placement in the Market and a Pro Builder badge. Neither is switched on. The Market page shows the 60 newest published builds, newest first, with no plan-based promotion of any kind (an older listing keeps its own link), and no listing carries a plan badge. They were on the Pro Builder + card and they should not have been, because nobody paying for that plan was receiving them. If we ever build them, they go back on this page and into the Terms on the same day.
Cancelling is one step. Here it is.
We are showing you the exit before you walk in, because a plan you can leave in ten seconds is a plan worth starting.
- 1.Email GadgetUpSupport@gmail.com from your account address with the word CANCEL, or tap the cancel link in any renewal email.
- 2.We act on it within 2 business days, and anything we get at least 48 hours before your renewal date stops that renewal.
- 3.You get a confirmation email, you keep the rest of the month you paid for, and no further charge is ever made.
No cancellation fee. No survey. No "are you sure" maze. If a charge ever looks wrong, email us within 60 days and we refund anything charged in error.
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What they cost.
You pay to make it, not to be told how to build it. Browsing, the 3D preview and the worked examples are always free. Bench Chat is the one metered thing here, and it counts only the seconds the model is actually thinking: reading, typing and idle time are free, part-periods are rounded down in your favour, and it can never take you below zero.
How to earn them free.
Publish one build people actually buy and it pays for the next one. That is the whole reason the Market exists: 2 of the 4 BuildBux a buyer spends goes straight to the person who designed it.