Splitbench · standing orders

What a seat costs.

Two models argue your motion, you take the floor, and a third rules. The chamber on the front page is free to use under the house caps. Lifting them is what you pay for.

Open to the public

The gallery

Free no account, no card

  • Put any motion and hear it argued end to end.
  • A short roster of models, with effort held down.
  • A fixed number of rounds per debate.
  • A few turns from the floor, then the ruling.
  • Save a debate and share the unlisted link.
Put a motion

It runs on our account, so the caps are real and the banner in the chamber states them before you start.

By the unit

A standing account

$0.05 a unit, bought in advance · never expires

  • The full roster — every model the catalogue carries, in any chair.
  • Effort as high as a model will go, on both benches and on the judge.
  • Debates that run as long as you want them to.
  • A floor that never closes; speak as often as you have something to say.
  • No wait between debates.

Units land in an account, so you will be asked to sign in. Payment is taken by Stripe; your card never reaches our machine.

The unit

Why it is not priced per debate

A debate has no single price. What it costs depends on who is arguing it and how hard they are made to think: two cheap models over three rounds, and a frontier bench at high effort with a judge reading the whole transcript, are not the same purchase — they are orders of magnitude apart. A flat per-debate fee would either overcharge the first or underwrite the second, and both are dishonest in the same way.

So an account is denominated in units. A unit is a fixed quantity of work; each turn draws down as many as its model and its effort actually cost. Cheap benches go a long way. Expensive ones do not, and the chamber says so.

Nothing is spent before you agree to it. The roster prices every chair while you are still choosing it — what one turn costs for a debater, and what it costs for the judge — so the bill for a debate is on screen before the motion is put, not after the ruling comes in.