honest pricing · three ways in
cook for free.
pay if you love it.
The entire library is free forever: every recipe, every creator, the full search and every filter. Pro adds a bigger Chef allowance.
- No card to start
- Cancel from the billing portal
- Your saves are yours if you leave
Free forever
The whole platform, the whole library, every creator. For most people, this is the right plan.
Start cooking- Every recipe on Mika, from real cooks
- Full search & filters · ingredient, diet, tag, time, rating
- Unlimited collections · private, shareable by link, as many as you like
- Cook history · one tap on any recipe you make
- The Chef · 3 questions a daysoon
- 20 questions a day with The Chefsoon
Mika Pro
most-cookedAsk The Chef what to make with what's in your fridge, 20 times a day instead of 3. Every month continues to support Mika and keeps it free of ads for everyone.soon
Go Pro- Everything in Free, plus:
- Pro badge on your profile
- The Chef, most of the way to unlimited · 20 questions a day, not 3soon
- Turn a photo, PDF or Word doc into a recipe draft · 30 a month, you check every field before it saves
Founding supporter
1,000 of 1,000 spots left
Mika is built by one person, with no investors behind it. Pay once to help keep it that way, and keep Pro for life with no subscription.
Become a supporter- Lifetime Mika Pro · everything Pro, forever, no subscription
- Founding member badge · shows on your profile, permanently
- Earliest access to mobile app
what you're paying for
the chef, most days.
Free gives you 3 asks a day, which is plenty if you plan on Sundays. Pro is for the 6:40pm “what can I make with this” people. We meter it rather than promising unlimited, because an unmetered bot is an invitation to sit there probing it, and we'd rather charge $5 than pay for that.
- 20 asks a day instead of 3, including follow-ups and swaps.
- The allowance resets every day at midnight UTC. Nothing rolls over, nothing expires.
- Upgrade mid-day and the bigger allowance applies to your very next ask.
Resets daily. Your saves, collections, and cook history are never metered on any plan.
the numbers, honestly
what does $5 get you?
20 asks / day
Chef asks a day, against 3 on the free tier. For the cooks who talk to it on the way home from work.
$5 / month
A month. Cancel from the billing portal whenever you like; there's no term and no exit fee.
0 ads
Ads. The whole thing. No banners, no sponsored cards, no “creators you might like” between you and dinner.
1 source
Place The Chef is allowed to look: the recipes published here. No web search, no guessing from memory, so it can't name a dish that doesn't exist.
questions
ask anything.
we're in the kitchen.
Or write to us. A real person answers, usually within a day.