Genspark Review 2026: Plans, Credits, Media Studio and the Real Costs

What Genspark is in late 2026

Genspark now calls itself an "All-in-One AI Workspace". The help center lists more than 30 products, from Super Agent, AI Slides, AI Sheets, AI Docs and AI Chat to Call For Me, Genspark Claw, Genspark Design, SecondBrain, GenMail, AI Meeting Notes, a Chrome extension, a Microsoft Office plugin and Media Studio.

The common thread is the Super Agent: you describe an outcome and it plans the steps, browses, writes files and hands back a deck, a sheet, a document or a video. The individual apps are the same engine pointed at one kind of output, with an editor on top so you can fix what the agent produced.

Under the hood Genspark routes work to models from other labs. AI Chat lists 40+ models plus a Mixture-of-Agents option, and the Privacy Policy says queries may be sent to the OpenAI or Anthropic API. The one notable in-house piece is Gen-1, a slide model covered below.

Genspark pricing: what each plan buys

All prices are in USD, from Genspark's membership page (updated October 20, 2026), which says the benefits described are valid through June 30, 2027.

• Free - $0. 100 credits per day up to a lifetime allowance of free credits, 1 GB of AI Drive storage, limited access to models and agents, and Speakly voice input for 4,000 words per week. Genspark does not publish how big the lifetime allowance is.
• Plus - $24.99 per month, or $239.99 per year ($19.99 per month). From 10,000 credits per month, 50 GB of AI Drive, a weekly Free Quota and commercial use of AI-generated content.
• Pro - $249.99 per month, or $2,399.99 per year ($199.99 per month). From 125,000 credits per month, 1 TB of AI Drive, a weekly Free Quota 10x the Plus balance and a higher AI Chat limit.
• Team - $40 per seat per month, or $420 per seat per year ($35 per month). 2 to 150 seats, 10,000 credits and 60 GB of AI Drive per seat.
• Enterprise - custom pricing through sales, from 20,000 credits per seat per month, with no seat minimum.

Annual billing saves about 20%, but the credits are still issued monthly, so paying yearly does not give you a bigger pot to spend in a busy month. Plus and Pro both come in higher credit tiers above the base 10,000 and 125,000 credits; the help center confirms they exist but does not list their prices.

If you see Pro quoted at $200 a month elsewhere, that is the annual-billing equivalent, not the monthly price. There is no free trial of Plus or Pro anywhere in the help center or Terms - the Free plan is the only way to try Genspark without paying.

How credits work, and where they get burned

Genspark's credits guide (updated October 14, 2026) says credits "measure computational effort". The cost of a task depends on the model tier (Standard or Ultra), text length, image resolution, video duration, audio length, the number of outputs and task complexity. There is no fixed rate card; Genspark tells users to check the live pricing inside the product because model lineups and prices change frequently.

The only fixed price we found is Call For Me: a flat 500 credits per connected call. Per-task figures circulating in reviews and forums, such as the cost of a slide deck or a video, are user reports, not official numbers.

The Free Quota softens the bill

Plus and Pro include a Free Quota: a weekly balance for text and image tasks in Standard mode across Super Agent, AI Slides, AI Sheets, AI Docs, Deep Research, Fact Check and SecondBrain, at no credit cost. Pro gets 10x the Plus balance. Genspark does not publish the actual size of either balance, so you only learn how far it goes by using it.

Credit traps Genspark itself warns about

• Regenerations cost the same as the original - every retry is a full charge.
• Failed agent retries cost credits each time.
• AI Audio and AI Music default to Auto-select, which generates several versions at once, and you pay for each one.
• If a prompt is blocked by the safety filter before anything is generated, credits come back automatically. If the output is generated and then flagged, it is still charged.
• Credits reset each billing period and do not carry over. Separately purchased top-up credits last 3 months and do carry across cycles.

The unlimited chat era ends on December 31, 2026

Genspark changed its pricing on September 18, 2026. Subscribers who joined before that date keep unlimited AI Chat and AI Image usage through December 31, 2026. From January 1, 2027, core models are included only up to a cap and flagship models use credits.

AI Chat also has a fair-use limit on paid plans that sits outside your credit balance: a session limit over a fixed 5-hour window. Buying more credits does not lift it. On the Free plan, Claude Haiku 4.5 is the default chat model.

If you are reading older reviews that sell Genspark on "unlimited" chat with top models, that pitch no longer applies to new subscribers and stops applying to existing ones at the end of this year. Genspark's Team page still describes unlimited chat for every seat, but its newer AI Chat page (October 20, 2026) limits it to seats active before September 18 - we would plan around the newer page.

Super Agent, AI Slides and the workspace apps

The Super Agent was rebuilt in September 2026. Each task now runs in a dedicated sandbox with a real browser, its own filesystem and code execution, and any workflow can be saved as a reusable skill. Sandbox storage is up to 500 MB on the Free plan and 1 GB on paid plans.

AI Slides and the Gen-1 model

AI Slides is the app most people arrive for, and it has a proper editor: select, draw and edit tools, plus Verify content, Fix Layout and Polish Content actions that re-run the agent on part of a deck. Standard mode runs Gen-1, Genspark's first in-house model, built for slides. Gen-1 is post-trained from MiniMax M3, an open-weight model, but Gen-1 itself is not open-weight. Ultra mode still runs frontier models from other labs and costs more.

Design, Sheets, Docs and the rest

Genspark Design starts from a "What would you like to design?" prompt with popular task templates and a gallery of your past designs. AI Sheets and AI Docs follow the same pattern for spreadsheets and documents, and all three draw on the weekly Free Quota in Standard mode on Plus and Pro.

Call For Me and Claw

Call For Me has the AI place real phone calls - booking, asking about availability and similar errands - over Genspark's lines rather than your phone bill. Each connected call costs a flat 500 credits and unconnected calls are refunded. You can make up to 4 connected calls to the same number in a rolling 24 hours, and a number that has received 6 connected calls from any Genspark user in 24 hours cannot be called again that day.

Genspark Claw is an agent that runs on a Genspark Cloud Computer, offered in Lite (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 64 GB storage), Standard (2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 64 GB storage) and Powerful (4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 128 GB storage) sizes. Their prices are not published on the membership page.

Media Studio: Genspark's new video suite

Media Studio launched on October 27, 2026 and brings image, video, audio and 3D creation into one place. You pick a mode (General, Video, Image, Audio or 3D), and results appear as nodes on a board, with a layer editor for images, a multitrack timeline for video and a director stage for 3D.

According to Impress Watch's launch coverage, it can take a single text prompt through script, storyboard, footage, audio, editing and subtitles, mixing Claude, GPT and Gemini with Seedance, Nano Banana and ElevenLabs depending on the step. A "Story Bible" keeps characters' faces, outfits and voices consistent across shots, and you approve the script before any video is generated.

What Media Studio costs

• LLM planning and images use the weekly Free Quota on Standard. Video, audio and 3D always use credits, on every tier.
• Price depends on model, resolution, duration and count, and a configuration node shows the estimate before you send.
• Drafts wait for a Run button, and nothing is charged until you press it. Failed generations are refunded; a successful generation is charged even if you never use it.
• Planning tiers are Standard (default), Ultra (more credits) and Mega, which costs twice the credits of Ultra and requires AI Data Retention to be on.

Paid users got 50% off Media Studio credit consumption as a launch promotion running until November 4, 2026 at 19:00 Japan time. Budget at full rates after that. Video is where a 10,000-credit Plus allowance will run out first.

Team and Enterprise plans

Team is self-serve for groups of 2 to 150 people. You cannot drop below 2 seats, and every admin counts as a paid seat. Each seat gets 10,000 credits a month that are allocated individually, reset each billing cycle and do not roll over, plus 60 GB of AI Drive. Payment is by credit card only, through Stripe.

Team and Enterprise are automatically opted out of model training, and Genspark says its SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 badges are public on its Trust Center. Enterprise starts at 20,000 credits per seat with no seat minimum; pricing is by quote. Mega mode in Media Studio is off for Team and Enterprise unless an admin enables it.

Privacy and data handling

• Queries may be transmitted to the OpenAI or Anthropic API, per the Privacy Policy (updated July 24, 2026).
• Data is stored on Microsoft Azure.
• If you close your account, Genspark says it deletes your account data within 30 days.
• Consumer plans have an AI Data Retention setting under Settings > Data Controls. Some features, such as Media Studio's Mega tier, require it to be on.
• Only Team and Enterprise are explicitly opted out of model training. We found no equally clear statement for Free, Plus or Pro.

The Terms are governed by California law with binding arbitration, and they say that if Genspark suspends or terminates your account you may not be entitled to a refund of unused prepaid fees. Sharing account credentials and reselling access are prohibited.

Refunds and cancellation

Refund rules are the biggest buyer risk, because there is no trial to lean on.

• EU, UK and Turkey: 14 days, for monthly and annual subscriptions.
• Korea: 7 days.
• Everyone else: 72 hours, for monthly and annual subscriptions.
• A refund is available if you have used less than 50% of the subscription or quota. At 50% or more, Genspark may decline and offer credits instead.
• Only one refund per customer, ever. Each charge, including a renewal, starts its own window.

Cancelling keeps the plan active until the end of the billing period, and unused credits from that period are not refunded. If a payment is past due, cancellation takes effect immediately. An annual Pro plan at $2,399.99 with a 72-hour window is a commitment worth testing on Plus monthly first.

What users say

Trustpilot shows no TrustScore for Genspark at the moment. When we checked on November 2, 2026, the page said the score was withheld due to a breach of its guidelines and that a number of fake reviews had been removed, leaving 482 reviews. Ignore star ratings quoted in older blog posts.

The written reviews split along predictable lines. A 4-star review from October 28 praises the output but warns that "this can consume lots of credits, if you are not careful". A 1-star review from October 16 says "Their return policy is also terrible", to which Genspark replied that its refund window runs from the charge and depends on region.

The iOS app, Genspark AI Workspace, is a free download rated 4.7 stars from 4,398 ratings on the US App Store, with version 3.1.5 released on October 27, 2026. That gap between app ratings and billing complaints is typical: the product impresses, the credit model frustrates.

Verdict: who Genspark is for

Genspark is worth paying for if you regularly turn research into decks, docs or sheets and want one agent to do the first draft. On Plus, most of that work runs on the weekly Free Quota in Standard mode, so the 10,000 credits are left for Ultra mode, calls and the occasional video. At $24.99 a month that is a fair price for the breadth, though monthly billing makes sense until you know your usage.

Pro at $249.99 a month only makes sense for heavy Media Studio or agent use, where 125,000 credits and a 10x Free Quota pay off. Teams get the training opt-out and compliance badges that consumer plans lack.

Skip it, or stay on Free, if you need predictable monthly costs, a long refund window, a public API, or if you joined for unlimited chat - that ends for everyone on December 31, 2026.

• Best for: solo professionals and small teams producing slides, documents and research every week.
• Good for: marketers testing AI video who can watch credit estimates closely.
• Not for: buyers who need a trial, a long refund window or fixed per-task prices.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Genspark cost?

Plus is $24.99 a month or $239.99 a year, and Pro is $249.99 a month or $2,399.99 a year. Team is $40 per seat per month ($35 billed annually) with a 2-seat minimum, and Enterprise is priced by quote. Higher credit tiers of Plus and Pro exist but their prices are not published in the help center.

Is there a free trial of Genspark Plus or Pro?

No. Genspark does not offer a trial of its paid plans. The Free plan gives 100 credits a day until an unpublished lifetime allowance runs out, after which the daily refill stops.

Do unused Genspark credits roll over?

No. Monthly plan credits reset each billing period, even on annual plans, which are issued credits month by month. Separately purchased top-up credits are the exception: they last 3 months and carry across cycles.

Is AI Chat still unlimited on Genspark?

Not for new subscribers. People subscribed before September 18, 2026 keep unlimited AI Chat and AI Image until December 31, 2026. From January 1, 2027 core models are capped and flagship models use credits, and paid plans also have a 5-hour session limit that buying credits does not lift.

Can I get a refund from Genspark?

Yes, but the window is short: 72 hours in most countries, 7 days in Korea and 14 days in the EU, UK and Turkey. You must have used less than 50% of the plan or quota, and Genspark grants only one refund per customer. App Store and Google Play purchases are refunded by the store.

Does Genspark train AI models on my data?

Team and Enterprise plans are automatically opted out of model training. For Free, Plus and Pro, Genspark's policies do not clearly say, so check the AI Data Retention setting under Settings > Data Controls. Queries may be sent to OpenAI or Anthropic, and data is stored on Microsoft Azure.

How many credits does Media Studio use?

It depends on the model, resolution, duration and number of outputs, and Media Studio shows an estimate before you press Run. Planning and images use the weekly Free Quota, while video, audio and 3D always use credits. Failed generations are refunded, but successful ones are charged even if you discard them.

Does Genspark have an API?

We found no documented public developer API. Genspark connects to other tools through a Microsoft Office plugin, Microsoft 365 plug-ins announced in April 2026, a Salesforce integration and a Chrome extension.

Key takeaways

• Plus costs $24.99 a month for 10,000 credits plus a weekly Free Quota; Pro costs $249.99 for 125,000 credits.
• Credits do not roll over, retries are charged in full, and there is no published per-task rate card.
• Unlimited AI Chat and AI Image end on December 31, 2026, even for older subscribers.
• Media Studio, launched October 27, 2026, is impressive but video, audio and 3D always cost credits.
• No free trial and a 72-hour refund window in most countries: start on Plus monthly.
• Team and Enterprise get a training opt-out and SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 badges; consumer training policy is not clearly stated.