Every pricing change we have made
Including the one we handled badly. Newest first.
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Clipy was free-only from launch until around June 2026, when it added a paid Pro tier without announcing it — that was a mistake, and it is documented below. The most recent change is the one that costs you something: free accounts created from 7 August 2026 get a one-time allowance of 15 recordings or 2 hours of recording, whichever comes first, and deleting recordings does not restore it. Free accounts older than that date stay uncapped. AI transcripts, summaries, the agent-readable AREC document and the MCP server remain free on every plan, and no recording you have already made is ever taken away, locked or watermarked. Every pricing change we have made is on this page, dated.
Why this page exists
In July 2026 an automated vendor review compared archived copies of our pricing page against the live one and found a written commitment we had reversed with no announcement. It could not find a date, a changelog entry, or any note from us explaining it, so it reported that our pricing promises should be treated as revocable. That was a fair reading of what we had published. The facts were never in dispute — the silence was the problem. This page is the fix, and the rule now is that a pricing change does not ship without a row here in the same change.
New free accounts get a one-time allowance: 15 recordings or 2 hours
This is the change on this page that costs you something, so it goes first and it gets the plain version. Free accounts created from 7 August 2026 can record 15 recordings or 2 hours of video, whichever they reach first. After that, recording requires Pro. It is a one-time allowance, not a monthly quota, and deleting recordings does not restore it — record 90 minutes and delete it and you have still used 90 of your 120. We would rather you read that here than discover it after clearing your library. Free accounts that existed before 7 August 2026 are grandfathered and stay uncapped. Why: storage and transcription for every free recording are paid for out of Codersera's revenue, and an uncapped free tier stopped being something we could honestly promise forever. We chose a limit that lets you evaluate the product properly over one that expires in 14 days. What did not change: no watermark, no signup wall for viewers, and no cap on how long a single recording runs — one 2-hour session is still fine. This also amends promise 3 of the Clipy Pledge, which said the free experience would stay free for existing and new users; the amendment is on /pledge, dated, next to the original wording.
Effect on the free plan: Existing free accounts: no change, still uncapped. New free accounts: 15 recordings or 2 hours, then Pro is required to record more. Every recording already made stays playable, shareable and downloadable on any plan, forever.
Corrected what the pricing page claimed Pro unlocks
Our pricing card had been listing AI titles, summaries and transcripts, ask-the-video Q&A, viewer analytics, embeds and knowledge-base search as Pro features. None of them was ever gated in the code — every one is free for every signed-in user, and our own changelog had said so since May 2026. The card was wrong, not the product. It now lists only the three capabilities a real gate refuses on the free plan, with everything free named alongside it.
Effect on the free plan: No change to what free users can do. The page now describes it accurately.
Published a 14-day refund policy, a liability cap and a retention policy
Clipy sold paid plans for roughly two months with no refund window stated anywhere, which is not a defensible position for a product whose own pledge promises no dark patterns. Any Pro charge, monthly or annual, is now refundable in full within 14 days by emailing support, with no reason required. Terms also now name a jurisdiction, cap liability, and state that recordings are never auto-deleted and stay playable if you downgrade.
Effect on the free plan: None. The free plan has nothing to refund.
Retired the free trial. The free plan is the trial.
Paid checkouts used to offer a free first month. That created a class of bug where a trial CTA promised a free month while the charge landed on day one, so we removed the trial entirely rather than patch around it. Upgrading now charges immediately and is covered by the 14-day refund. Trials that were already running are honoured to their end date.
Effect on the free plan: None. The free plan is unchanged and does not expire.
Retired the Lifetime plan
The $199 one-time Lifetime plan (previously offered at $299 as a founding price) is no longer sold. Selling a lifetime licence for a young product is a promise about a horizon we cannot honestly price. Everyone who already bought Lifetime keeps it, permanently and with no change to what it includes.
Effect on the free plan: None.
Paid tiers introduced: Pro and Enterprise. This is the change we handled badly.
Clipy went from free-only to selling Pro ($9/mo, or $72/yr) alongside a custom Enterprise tier. We did not write a changelog entry, publish a dated announcement, or email existing users. That is the part we got wrong, and we are not going to characterise it as anything else: we had told people in writing that we had no plans to introduce paid tiers, we changed our minds, and we shipped the change quietly. This page exists so that never happens silently again. The exact transition date is genuinely not recoverable from our own records, which is itself a consequence of not writing it down at the time.
Effect on the free plan: At the time, nothing: everything the free plan could do before this change, it could still do after it — unlimited recordings, no time limit, no watermark, no file-size cap, no viewer signup wall, and AI titles, summaries and transcripts. The paywall added new capabilities (4K, whole-library Loom migration, end-of-video CTAs) rather than taking any away. The free plan's recording allowance was capped later, on 2026-08-07, for new accounts only — see the top of this page.
The Clipy Pledge published
Five signed, dated commitments: no watermark ever, no signup wall for viewers, no selling data or running ad networks, account deletion that really deletes, and — relevant here — that if a paid tier ever launched, the free experience at that moment would stay free. The pricing page that same day carried a stronger and less careful line: that we had no plans to introduce paid tiers at all. The pledge's version is the one we have kept.
Effect on the free plan: None at the time.
Free-only. One plan, $0, no paid tiers.
The earliest archived pricing page. A single 'Unlimited Plan' at $0 forever: unlimited recordings, unlimited cloud storage, unlimited share links, no watermark, no time limit, no file-size cap, no card, no trial, no expiration. This state held unchanged across every archived snapshot through 2026-05-20.
Effect on the free plan: This was the whole product.
What we commit to from here
- Every pricing or plan-contents change gets a dated row on this page, shipped with the change itself.
- Price changes never apply retroactively. They affect new purchases and future renewals only.
- Existing subscribers get an email before the first renewal at any new rate.
- If a capability that is free today ever moves behind the paywall, it will be named here, with the date and the reason — and it will not be quietly removed from a feature list and hoped past you.
- Rows on this page are appended, never edited or deleted.
Current prices are on /pricing. The product changelog is at /changelog, and the five standing promises are at /pledge.