- Is the free plan actually free?
- Yes, and it does not expire. A free account gets email outage alerts for up to 5 providers with no card. The provider pages, incident history, uptime data, JSON API, status badges, and RSS feeds need no account at all.
- What counts as an alert rule?
- One saved alert: a destination (an email address, a Slack, Teams, or Discord channel, or a webhook endpoint) plus the providers or services it watches. Scope is never the limit, so a single rule can watch your entire vendor stack. You add rules when another destination needs telling, or when one team should hear about only its part of the stack.
- Can I send alerts to my team's address instead of mine?
- Yes, on any paid plan. Add the address on your account and we email it a confirmation link; it becomes usable once someone reading that mailbox clicks. That click is the gate rather than the payment, because it is the recipient who has to agree to hear from us, and it means a devops group, an on-call alias, or a client can be a destination without anyone being mailed who did not ask. Every alert to that address carries a one-click link that stops it. Free accounts send to their own address.
- Can I cancel whenever I want?
- Yes. Canceling is a button on your account page, not an email to support. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you already paid for, and you can resume it before then without a new checkout.
- Can I get a refund?
- New subscriptions carry a 14-day money-back guarantee. Refunds are processed by Paddle, and the full policy is on our refunds page.
- Who charges my card, and what about VAT?
- Paddle is our merchant of record. They take the payment, handle VAT and sales tax for your country, and issue the invoice, which you can download yourself from the payment history on your account page.
- What happens if I switch plans?
- Upgrades and downgrades happen in the app and are prorated against what you have already paid, so you are never charged twice or asked to run a second checkout. Your API quota moves to the new plan immediately.