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Plans and billing
Free, Pro and Business, per app, in CAD, paid from your prepaid HonkIO balance. Billing never locks your existing users out.
Plans
| Per app, per month, CAD | Free | Pro | Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 | $49 | $249 |
| Users included | 250 | 2,500, then 2.5¢ each | 10,000, then 2¢ each |
| Email code or link, passkeys | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Text-message codes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Sign-in on your own domain (required) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Webhooks | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Abuse protection | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Two-step verification | No | Yes | Yes |
| Organizations, roles, invitations | No | No | Yes |
| Two-step required per organization or role | No | No | Yes |
Plans are per app. Each account can have one live Free app; a second answers AUTH_APP_FREE_LIMIT. Test apps are free and unlimited, get every feature, and are capped at 100 users. The monthly fee comes out of your prepaid balance on a monthly cycle, like phone-number rent, and auto top-up covers it. If a plan’s price or allowances change, the change applies from each app’s next billing cycle; a cycle already under way keeps the figures it started with.
How users are counted
A user counts in a month only if they sign in on at least one day after the day they signed up. People who sign up once and leave, and users flagged as likely bots, cost nothing.
Over the limit
On Free, new sign-ups pause at 250 counted users; existing users keep signing in. Pro and Business never pause: users above the included amount are billed per user. You get an email and a dashboard warning at 80% and 100%.
Message costs
On every plan, sign-in emails and texts cost HonkIO’s normal per-message rates, on the same bill. They don’t carry the verification fee that /v1/verify charges. Passkey sign-ins cost nothing. The dashboard shows each app’s sign-in costs by method.
Changing plans
A downgrade takes effect at the end of the billing cycle. Before you confirm, the dashboard lists what will happen to your users: for example, people who signed in by text will need their email or a passkey, and organization claims will leave the ID token. Your domain is unaffected, because every plan has one. Cancel a scheduled downgrade any time before it applies.
When a payment fails
If your balance runs out or the monthly fee can’t be charged, the app keeps its plan for a 14-day grace period. You’re emailed and warned in the dashboard when it starts and again before it ends. A billing problem never causes a downgrade.
After the grace period, new sign-ups and sign-in texts stop. Existing users keep signing in by email and passkey, and your domain and two-step verification keep working. HonkIO covers the cost of sign-in emails for existing users during the grace period and for 90 days after it, up to a daily cap per app. After that, HonkIO staff review the app, and contact you before any suspension. Billing never switches off anything that would lock your existing users out.