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TeamsFeb 3, 20264 min read

Team Collaboration: Shared Token Pools and Centralized Billing

Give your team access to AI-powered email without managing individual subscriptions. One pool, one bill, full visibility into who uses what.

Managing AI tools across a team is painful. Five people need access, so you buy five subscriptions. Nobody tracks usage. Two people barely use it. One person burns through their limit by Wednesday. There is no visibility, no control, and no way to optimize spend.

Kerna's Business plan solves this with a shared architecture.

How Team Sharing Works

When you subscribe to the Business plan, you get a shared token pool of 2,000,000 tokens and 5 team seats included. As the team leader, you invite members by email. Each member gets full access to every Kerna feature — Reply, Summarize, Translate, Compose, Extract, Rewrite — drawing from the shared pool.

The Team Dashboard

The team leader sees a real-time dashboard showing:

  • Total tokens used vs. the pool limit
  • Per-member breakdown — who consumed how many tokens, and on which features
  • Usage trends — daily and weekly patterns to identify peak usage
  • Seat management — add or remove team members instantly

This visibility means you can right-size your plan. If the team consistently uses only 60% of the pool, you know you are covered. If someone is burning through tokens, you can investigate and optimize.

Centralized Billing

One invoice, one subscription, one admin. No chasing reimbursements from individual team members. No managing five separate Stripe accounts. The team leader controls everything from the Kerna dashboard.

How Token Sharing Works

Every action in Kerna consumes tokens — a summary might use 2,000 tokens, a translation 1,500, a simple reply 800. All team members draw from the same pool. When the pool resets at the start of each billing cycle, everyone starts fresh.

This is more efficient than individual plans because usage naturally balances. Not everyone sends the same number of emails every day. The shared pool absorbs peaks and valleys across the team.

Enterprise: Custom Everything

For organizations larger than 5 people, the Enterprise plan offers custom token limits, custom seat counts, SSO integration, audit logs, and dedicated support. Contact sales@kerna.io to design a plan that fits your organization.

Team Collaboration is available on the Business plan (€49/month) and Enterprise.

Team Collaboration: Shared Token Pools and Centralized Billing — Kerna Blog | Kerna