feat(canvas): flat-rate pricing — rename Starter→Team, Pro→Growth (Issue #1833)

canvas/src/app/pricing/page.tsx

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { PricingTable } from "@/components/PricingTable";
 export const metadata = {
   title: "Pricing — Molecule AI",
   description:
-    "Free while you tinker, paid tiers for shipping production multi-agent organizations. Transparent usage-based overage pricing on Pro.",
+    "Flat-rate team and org pricing — no per-seat fees. Free to start, $29/month for teams, $99/month for production orgs. Full runtime stack included on every paid tier.",
 };
 
 export default function PricingPage() {
@@ -25,9 +25,12 @@ export default function PricingPage() {
           Pricing
         </h1>
         <p className="mx-auto mt-4 max-w-2xl text-lg text-zinc-300">
-          Free while you tinker. Pay when you ship real agents to production.
-          Every tier includes the full runtime stack — you upgrade for scale,
-          support, and dedicated infrastructure.
+          One flat price per org — not per seat. Every paid tier includes the
+          full runtime stack. You upgrade for scale, support, and dedicated
+          infrastructure.
+        </p>
+        <p className="mx-auto mt-2 max-w-xl text-sm text-zinc-400">
+          5-person team? You pay $29/month — not $200. No seat math, ever.
         </p>
       </div>
 
@@ -53,7 +56,8 @@ export default function PricingPage() {
           .
         </p>
         <p className="mt-6 text-sm text-zinc-500">
-          Prices shown in USD. Enterprise / self-hosted licensing available — contact us.
+          Prices shown in USD. Flat-rate per org — no per-seat fees on any paid tier.
+          Enterprise / self-hosted licensing available — contact us.
         </p>
       </section>
 

canvas/src/components/__tests__/PricingTable.test.tsx

@@ -50,14 +50,14 @@ describe("PricingTable", () => {
   it("renders all three plans with their CTAs", () => {
     render(<PricingTable />);
     expect(screen.getByRole("heading", { name: "Free" })).toBeTruthy();
-    expect(screen.getByRole("heading", { name: "Starter" })).toBeTruthy();
-    expect(screen.getByRole("heading", { name: "Pro" })).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByRole("heading", { name: "Team" })).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByRole("heading", { name: "Growth" })).toBeTruthy();
     expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Get started" })).toBeTruthy();
-    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Starter" })).toBeTruthy();
-    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Pro" })).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Team" })).toBeTruthy();
+    expect(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Growth" })).toBeTruthy();
   });
 
-  it("shows the 'Most popular' badge only on the starter card", () => {
+  it("shows the 'Most popular' badge only on the Team card", () => {
     render(<PricingTable />);
     const badges = screen.getAllByText("Most popular");
     expect(badges.length).toBe(1);
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ describe("PricingTable", () => {
   it("Paid CTA + anonymous → bounces to signup (no checkout call)", async () => {
     mockedFetchSession.mockResolvedValue(null);
     render(<PricingTable />);
-    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Starter" }));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Team" }));
     await waitFor(() => expect(mockedRedirectToLogin).toHaveBeenCalledWith("sign-up"));
     expect(mockedStartCheckout).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ describe("PricingTable", () => {
     });
 
     render(<PricingTable />);
-    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Pro" }));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Growth" }));
 
     await waitFor(() =>
       expect(mockedStartCheckout).toHaveBeenCalledWith("pro", "acme"),
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ describe("PricingTable", () => {
     mockedGetTenantSlug.mockReturnValue("");
 
     render(<PricingTable />);
-    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Starter" }));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Team" }));
 
     await waitFor(() => {
       const alert = screen.getByRole("alert");
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ describe("PricingTable", () => {
     mockedStartCheckout.mockRejectedValue(new Error("checkout: 500 boom"));
 
     render(<PricingTable />);
-    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Pro" }));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Growth" }));
 
     await waitFor(() => {
       const alert = screen.getByRole("alert");
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ describe("PricingTable", () => {
   it("treats fetchSession network errors as anonymous (fail-closed to signup)", async () => {
     mockedFetchSession.mockRejectedValue(new Error("network down"));
     render(<PricingTable />);
-    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Starter" }));
+    fireEvent.click(screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Team" }));
     await waitFor(() => expect(mockedRedirectToLogin).toHaveBeenCalledWith("sign-up"));
     expect(mockedStartCheckout).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ describe("PricingTable", () => {
     mockedStartCheckout.mockReturnValue(new Promise(() => {}));
 
     render(<PricingTable />);
-    const button = screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Pro" });
+    const button = screen.getByRole("button", { name: "Upgrade to Growth" });
     fireEvent.click(button);
 
     await waitFor(() => {

canvas/src/lib/billing.ts

@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ export interface Plan {
 // plans is the canonical order shown on the pricing page: free → starter
 // → pro. Change the order here + the rendered columns follow. Keeping
 // this as a module-level const so tests can assert against a known list.
+//
+// Flat-rate positioning (Issue #1833): "starter" and "pro" are flat-rate
+// per-org, not per-seat. This is a deliberate wedge against Cursor/Windsurf
+// ($40/seat) — at 5 engineers the Team tier is 28% cheaper.
 export const plans: Plan[] = [
   {
     id: "free",
@@ -48,33 +52,35 @@ export const plans: Plan[] = [
   },
   {
     id: "starter",
-    name: "Starter",
-    tagline: "For small teams shipping real agents",
+    name: "Team",
+    tagline: "Flat-rate for teams — one price, no per-seat fees",
     price: "$29/month",
     features: [
       "10 workspaces",
       "All runtimes + plugins",
       "Private Upstash Redis namespace",
       "Email support (48h)",
       "5M LLM tokens / month included",
+      "No per-seat pricing",
     ],
-    ctaLabel: "Upgrade to Starter",
+    ctaLabel: "Upgrade to Team",
     highlighted: true,
   },
   {
     id: "pro",
-    name: "Pro",
-    tagline: "For production multi-agent orgs",
+    name: "Growth",
+    tagline: "Flat-rate for production multi-agent orgs",
     price: "$99/month",
     features: [
       "Unlimited workspaces",
       "Dedicated Fly Machine per tenant",
       "Cross-workspace A2A audit log",
       "Priority support (24h)",
       "25M LLM tokens / month included",
+      "No per-seat pricing",
       "Usage-based overage billing",
     ],
-    ctaLabel: "Upgrade to Pro",
+    ctaLabel: "Upgrade to Growth",
   },
 ];