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Discover for free. Make it your own with Home Cook. Grow your audience with Chef, or your business with Professional.
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Discover recipes, stories and food cultures.
Explore the recipe library, read food history, share recipes, and add one manual recipe each month.
Casual readers and first-time members.
* Recipe-linked Blog posts are not counted towards this standalone Blog allowance
Best first upgrade
Your personal recipe space, without the ads.
Build your personal recipe space, publish AI-assisted recipes, and use social tools - all without ads.
Serious home cooks wanting to be part of a community.
* Recipe-linked Blog posts are not counted towards this standalone Blog allowance
Audience tools
Publish freely. Build your food audience.
For cooks, bloggers, and food creators who need unlimited publishing and richer audience tools.
Community-driven food bloggers, creators, and passionate cooks.
* Recipe-linked Blog posts are not counted towards this standalone Blog allowance
For teams
Commercial tools for your food business.
Commercial publishing features for chefs, brands, influencers, restaurants, bars and advanced integrations.
Professional chefs, brands, restaurants, caterers, and bars.
* Recipe-linked Blog posts are not counted towards this standalone Blog allowance
* Recipe-linked Blog posts are not counted towards this standalone Blog allowance
Discovery stays free. Your membership supports the tools that help this community cook, create and connect.
Virtual cookbooks that grow from personal collections to branded PDFs.
Community tools for follows, notifications, and member messaging.
Choosing a plan does not charge you. Sign in first, then review your subscription at checkout.
The essentials of joining, billing and changing your plan.
Monthly plans are billed each month. Annual plans are billed once per year at the full yearly price shown. Paid subscriptions renew automatically unless you cancel. Applicable taxes are calculated at checkout.
Manage renewal in Account Settings or the Stripe Customer Portal. Plan changes, cancellations and refunds follow the Subscription Terms and Refund and Cancellation Policy.
Refund and Cancellation PolicyBrowse recipes, food history, full search and public profiles. You can add one manual recipe per month, with a linked Blog article written by you or generated by YumAI. Paid features remain separate.
Sign in or create an account first. Your selected plan, currency and billing cycle are retained. Review the final amount and renewal interval at checkout before paying.
Features marked Coming soon are planned. Public API integration is not available yet. Full plan details show the current quotas and restrictions.
Payments are handled by Stripe / Link. Review the final amount before you pay.
Monthly or annual billing. Paid plans renew automatically unless you cancel.
Cancel renewal online in Account Settings or the Stripe Customer Portal.
Prices shown exclude applicable taxes. VAT, GST, sales tax, or similar taxes are calculated by Stripe/Link at checkout where required. Subscriptions are subject to the Subscription Terms, Refund and Cancellation Policy, and Terms of Use.
The differences that matter. Every paid tier builds on the one before it.
Compare two plans at a time.
| Feature | Free | Home Cook | Chef | Professional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recipe uploads per month | 1 manual | 15 with AI enhancement | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Standalone Blog posts per month* | Not included | 5 | 15 | 25 |
| Virtual cookbooks | Not included | 3 | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Events per month | Not included | 3 | 10 | Unlimited |
| Saved searches and collections | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Analytics | Not included | Basic | Advanced | Advanced |
| Cookbook PDFs | Not included | Not included | Branded | White label |
| API integration | Not included | Not included | Not included | Planned |
Recipe-linked Blog posts do not count towards the standalone Blog allowance. See each plan’s full details for every entitlement, restriction and coming-soon feature.
