Free to create. Cheap to keep.
A public URL, a hotlinkable PNG, and a scene people can walk into — on the house. About 1 GB of stored pictures on the free tier. A $5 USD every 3 months Supporter subscription is only if you want a bigger library. It does not buy extra tools.
Artists usually pay three times: an image host, a link-in-bio, and a site. This is one place that does all three, at about $0.05 per GB per month if you grow past the free gigabyte — or $0 if you don't.
Free forever
Sign in, make scenes, place objects, forge items, publish, and share a public URL. Guests can visit published scenes that allow them. There is no paid unlock for those tools.
What you do get on the free tier is a strain budget: a daily allowance, a bank cap, and storage rent charged against that budget. If you run out, you wait for replenishment. You do not lose the Forge.
Supporter
Supporter is $5 USD every 3 months. It raises your strain — the daily budget everything in TWP draws on — and keeps the servers running. It does not lock features behind a paywall.
Free vs Supporter
Numbers below are the current baseline. If you are signed in they may update from the live strain config; if that request fails, these values remain.
| Free | Supporter | |
|---|---|---|
| Strain per day | 120 | 3,000 |
| Bank up to | 240 | 12,000 |
| Storage your allowance covers | ~1 GB | ~25 GB |
| Daily upload cap | 600 MB / day | 4.7 GB / day |
Storage rent is 0.1 strain per MB per day — about $0.05 per GB per month. Creating and browsing also spend strain, so leave a little headroom in the library size. What strain meters is on features.
What strain pays for
The same daily budget covers stored files and the work of building. Storage is the expensive part; most clicks are a throttle, not a bill.
- Storage rent — 0.1 strain per MB per day ($0.05 per GB per month). Charged every day on bytes you still keep.
- New scene or forged item — 1 strain, plus one day of rent on the bytes you upload.
- Saving a scene, using objects, thumbnails — 0.02 strain. These bound busy loops; they are not priced at cost.
- Daily upload cap — a second ceiling so a burst cannot store more than the allowance can keep paying rent on.
Unused strain banks up to the cap (two days on the free tier, four days for Supporters). Hitting the cap or falling behind on storage rent pauses new creation until the next replenishment or you free some files. It does not hide the Forge.
Questions
- Is ThinkWith.Pictures free?
- Yes. Signed-in accounts can create scenes, use the Forge, and publish. There is no paid unlock for those tools.
- What does Supporter cost?
- $5 USD every 3 months. It raises your daily strain allowance, bank cap, and the library size that allowance can carry.
- Do Supporters get exclusive features?
- No — capacity only. Supporter does not lock any feature behind a paywall.
- What is strain?
- Strain is a daily budget for creating, reading, claiming, and storing. Unused strain banks up to a cap. Hitting the cap means you wait for replenishment; it does not hide features.
- How much storage do I get?
- The free daily allowance covers about 1 GB of stored files. Supporter covers about 25 GB. Rent is 0.1 strain per MB per day, about $0.05 per GB per month. Creating also spends strain, so leave a little headroom.
- Can I use the site without paying?
- Yes. Visit public scenes as a guest, or sign in and create on the free strain tier.