Pricing
Simple, honest pricing.
Free during early access — and early-access users keep everything free. At launch, one plan covers your whole circle, and self-hosting is free forever. That fee is the entire business model — no ads, no data sales, no “you are the product.”
You're on the list — we'll email you the moment BanditKin launches.
No ads. No analytics. No data sales. No account required.
One plan
Your whole circle. One price.
Every cloud plan starts with a 30-day full free trial — no card, no account. Pick how you'd like to pay when you're ready.
Monthly
$4.99/mo
One plan for the whole circle. Cancel anytime.
Yearly
$39.99/yr
Under $40 a year for everyone — about $3.33 a month.
Lifetime
$99.99 once
Pay once, done forever. For people who don't do subscriptions.
Self-host
Free forever
Run the relay on your own hardware — the strongest privacy proof there is. Same app, your server, no fee ever.
Questions
Pricing, answered honestly
What happens when the 30-day trial ends?
Your circle picks a plan — monthly, yearly, or lifetime — or switches to self-hosting. If you do nothing, syncing pauses until you choose; your encrypted data stays intact and nothing is deleted.
Is the price per person or per device?
Neither — it's per circle. One plan covers everyone in your circle and their devices.
What does early access mean for pricing?
While we build, everything is free — no trial clock, no card. And when we launch, early-access users keep everything free. That's the thank-you for being here first.
What exactly does Lifetime include?
Everything in the cloud plan, for the life of the service, in one payment. If you'd rather own the whole stack yourself, self-hosting is free forever.
Why is self-hosting free?
Because it proves the whole point. The relay runs on your hardware, so your circle's encrypted data never touches our servers at all. It's the same relay we run in the cloud — and we can't read your data either way.