Same product. Different limits.
Pricing exists to protect calm operation, predictable cost, and a small system that can keep being maintained.
All tiers use the same product, API, CLI, client-side encryption model, Witness receipt model, and Continuity ledger model.
Tiers are limits, not feature bundles. If included usage is exceeded, requests may be throttled or rejected with stable machine-readable errors.
Trial is invite-based and limited to 50 active Trial accounts. Paid accounts are unaffected by Trial capacity.
No open-ended storage, open-ended bandwidth, priority support, managed key recovery, or custody of plaintext, filenames, or encryption keys.
After payment, a claim-code email tells you how to run vault auth create --code <code>. Basic and High expiry includes a 30-day read-only grace window for object GET, object HEAD, continuity export, and account status.