Why we do not charge for the people you send to

Per-recipient and per-gigabyte pricing punishes the teams with the most clients and the biggest files, which are the teams a transfer product exists for. How the plans are shaped instead, and what that means for an agency, a studio or a lab.

RIPTON CLOUD team, Product and engineering · · 2 min read

In short

  • External recipients and guest uploaders never use a seat and are never charged, on every plan including Free.
  • Plans are priced by named users on your side and a monthly transfer allowance; there is no per-gigabyte metering.
  • The Free plan is a real plan: three users, one Shared Inbox, 25 GB a month, 10 GB per file, with no expiry.

The shape of the plans

Every plan on the pricing page counts the same two things: named users inside your organization, and a monthly transfer allowance. Recipients, guest uploaders and Shared Inbox senders are not counted. An agency delivering to forty clients and a studio delivering to two pay for their own people, not for who they deliver to.

PlanPricePer fileNotes
Free$010 GB3 named users, 1 Shared Inbox, 25 GB of transfer a month. Does not expire.
Starter$99/mo100 GBFor a team that sends every week.
Professional$499/moNo limitAdds API, CLI, webhooks, SAML SSO, roles and full audit.
Business$1,499/moNo limitAdds SCIM and larger allowances.
EnterpriseFrom $2,500/moNo limitDeployment and support terms agreed per customer.

Why not meter the gigabytes or the recipients

Per-gigabyte pricing makes the product more expensive exactly when it is doing its job. A team that moves 50 TB a month is the team that needs a transfer product; charging them per byte turns every large delivery into a cost conversation and pushes people back to shipping drives. Per-recipient pricing does the same to the teams with the most clients. Both models optimise for customers who use the product less.

The transfer allowance on each plan is there so that the infrastructure behind hosted control and support scales with use, and it is published so you can plan for it. It is not metered at a per-gigabyte rate, and exceeding it is a conversation about the next plan rather than a surprise invoice.

The Free plan is not a trial. It has no expiry, and its limits are enough to send real work: a 10 GB master, a folder of any file count within the monthly allowance, a Shared Inbox for a vendor. We would rather you find out on your own files whether the product is worth paying for.

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