Tiers & limits

What Free, Pro and Research each run and unlock — and why the tier changes which checks execute, not just how many runs you get.

A tier is not just a quota. It decides which pipeline runs — how many of the eight checks execute, whether plain-language translation is available, and how much of the scorecard you see. The limit is enforced in the backend, so a request that slips past the interface still produces a result shaped for its tier.

Free

Built to demonstrate the mechanism cheaply, not to be anyone’s final word.

  • Six of the eight checks: leak audit, twin control, null information, pre-registration (default floors only), temporal halves, cost realism — the ones whose absence would falsify the trust mechanism.
  • A limited number of runs per month.
  • The DSL, the full indicator library, and every asset class.
  • The standalone Null-info diagnostic, immutable run history, and deflated-Sharpe accounting.
  • The raw scorecard, with the two checks it does not run named on it. No plain-language attribution.

Pro

  • All eight checks, including placebo and cluster-adjusted significance.
  • Unlimited runs.
  • Plain-English descriptions compiled to a spec (still with the mandatory confirmation step).
  • Diagnostic attribution with case-study links, and user-committed floors.
  • The interactive trade chart and trade-by-trade comparison.

Research

The Free subset is disclosed, not hidden
Where Free omits a check, the scorecard shows it as a Pro marker rather than leaving the row blank. A Free scorecard is honest for the checks it runs; Pro adds two further layers of scrutiny, and it says so.

Billing

Free is $0 with no card. Pro is $29/month or $290/year; Research is $129/month or $1,290/year. Payments run through Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record — they are the legal seller and handle tax, invoices, and cancellation, all from their customer portal. Your plan is whatever your subscription says; there is no way to set it by hand. Manage it on the Billing page.