How we measure

How does the free plan differ from a one-time credit grant?

The free plan is a standing workspace, not a one-time credit grant. A grant hands you a fixed pot of runs that empties and then ends. The free plan keeps your site, your tracked keywords and your history between visits, asks for no credit card and imposes no trial clock. Paid tiers lift those limits.

A credit grant is a trial in disguise: it is generous on day one and gone by the time you have anything to compare against. Most of what this product is for only becomes legible on the second and third look.

So the free plan keeps state. Your site record, its tracked keywords and the history collected against them persist, and you can come back to them without re-entering anything.

It is a smaller allowance, not a smaller product — the surfaces are the same ones paid tiers use, with lower limits and a lighter refresh. Paid tiers raise those limits.

Separately, the paid tiers offer a 7-day free trial, and that one does require a credit card. The free plan does not.

What this answer is based on

Free plan scope and trial policy