Transparent flat pricing
No overage bills. No surprise charges. What it says on the tin is what you pay — full stop. We modeled the fairness on Proton, Tailscale, and Kagi, not on SaaS dark patterns.
Pricing Fair pricing.
Fair pricing.
No dark patterns.
Sovereign always offered.
Pay for capacity and commercial use — not for the right to exist. A genuinely generous free tier, humane flat rates, and a self-hosted option on every paid product. We promise not to price-gouge.
FREE TIER · REAL · not crippleware
PRICING · FLAT · no overage bills
SOVEREIGN · ALWAYS · every paid product
DARK PATTERNS · 0
Pay for capacity and commercial use — not for the right to exist on your own infrastructure.
The commitment
How we think about pricing
Modeled on the best fair-pricing companies — Proton, Tailscale, 1Password, Kagi — with platform depth that rivals Palantir and the principle that sovereignty is never a gatekept premium.
A real free tier, not crippleware
Citizen is a genuine front door. Browser, QR, Verax offline-verify, Post, and Veridian community ISO are free forever — not a 14-day trial, not a degraded hook designed to frustrate you into paying.
Self-host always offered
Every paid product has a Sovereign option: you run it yourself, air-gapped, with no recurring license to keep your own AI alive. Independence is a right here, not a premium upsell.
Honest about what is not ready
Billing is not wired yet. We will not fake a checkout or manufacture urgency. Join the waitlist and we will tell you when it is ready — with real pricing, not bait-and-switch.
Tiers
Four rungs. One spine.
Every product shares the Argus ID entitlement spine — one account, entitlements delivered as short-lived signed tokens that verify offline. Start free, scale when you need to.
Citizen
The front door. Forever free.
Free
No credit card. No expiry. No crippleware.
- Argus Browser — full, free forever
- Argus QR — scan & verify free
- Verax — offline verify always free
- Verax AI chat — hard-capped (N req/day, small model)
- Argus Post — personal E2EE messaging
- Veridian OS — community ISO, free forever
- Argus Concierge — demo access
- Argus Ledger — read/demo only
- Argus Sigil — paid (Pro and above)
- Bulk / API / branded QR codes
- Priority GPU queue
Pro
Power-user & prosumer.
$TBD /mo or one-time lifetime
Indicative: ~$5–$12/mo · Final price set by operator · Sub or lifetime
- Everything in Citizen
- Argus Sigil — full PROVE + CLI (provenance signing)
- Argus QR — bulk codes, branded, API
- Verax AI chat — higher daily cap + priority GPU queue
- Argus Post Pro — larger media, multi-device
- Argus Browser — cosmetic perks
- Subscription or one-time lifetime license
- Team / multi-seat admin
- SSO via Argus ID
- API fleet seats
Team
Multi-seat. Business use.
$TBD /seat/mo or annual / lifetime
Contact for team pricing — we keep it fair
- Everything in Pro
- Multi-seat with central admin
- SSO via Argus ID
- Argus Browser — central policy management
- Argus QR — team key management
- Verax — API access + fleet seats
- Argus Sigil — team/multi-seat
- Argus Post — org spaces + admin controls
- Argus Concierge — B2B seats
- Argus Ledger — B2B audit & accountability
- Air-gapped / on-prem deployment
- Own GPU / Verax fleet
Sovereign
Self-hosted. Air-gapped. You own it.
Contact custom + one-time license
Enterprise / government / sensitive deployments
- Everything in Team
- Argus Browser — self-hosted sync server
- Argus QR — on-premises anchor
- Verax — Verax-as-a-fleet, own GPU, air-gapped
- Argus Sigil — self-hosted signing authority
- Argus Post — self-hosted relay
- Argus Concierge — self-hosted deployment
- Argus Ledger — self-hosted instance
- Veridian OS — enterprise support + hardening
- Documented handoff — you own it outright
- No recurring license to run your own AI
Prices marked $TBD are pending operator sign-off. The indicative ranges shown are the engineering team's proposal — not final. No billing is wired yet; the waitlist is the right action.
Billing status
BILLING STATUS
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CHECKOUT ··· NOT WIRED
LEMON SQUEEZY · PENDING
PADDLE ······· PENDING
CRYPTO ········ PENDING
LIFETIME LIC ·· PENDING
WAITLIST ······ OPEN
DARK PATTERNS · 0
Billing is coming. Here is what to do right now.
Paid plans are designed and priced — the checkout is not wired yet. We will not fake a button or manufacture urgency. Both a subscription and a one-time lifetime license will be available on every paid product at launch. Billing runs through Lemon Squeezy or Paddle (they handle global tax) plus a crypto option for the privacy crowd.
Until then: join the waitlist per tier and we will reach out the moment billing is live. No marketing sequence, no dark pattern — just a direct email when it is ready.
Product breakdown
What each tier unlocks, per product
Every product becomes a sovereign deployment at the Sovereign tier. The matrix below is the honest read — no asterisks, no footnotes hiding gotchas.
| Product | Citizen · Free | Pro | Team | Sovereign |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BROWSER Argus Browser Sovereign, privacy-first browser with encrypted local vault. | Full, free forever | Cosmetic perks | Central policy + SSO | Self-hosted sync server |
| QR Argus QR Ed25519-signed, branded, verifiable QR codes. | Scan & verify free | Bulk + branded + API | Team key management | On-premises anchor |
| VERAX Verax Sovereign AI — every inference cryptographically signed. | Offline verify free · AI chat hard-capped | Higher caps + priority queue | API access + fleet seats | Own GPU · Verax-fleet · air-gapped |
| SIGIL Argus Sigil Cryptographic provenance for images and media. C2PA signing. | Not included — paid in Pro | Full PROVE + CLI | Team / multi-seat | Self-hosted signing authority |
| POST Argus Post End-to-end encrypted messaging for people and teams. | Personal E2EE, free | Larger media + multi-device | Org spaces + admin controls | Self-hosted relay |
| CONCIERGE Argus Concierge AI front desk for client intake, scheduling, and outreach. | Demo | — | B2B seats | Self-hosted |
| LEDGER Argus Ledger Auditable operations ledger: hours, revenue, project health. | Read / demo | — | B2B — audit & accountability | Self-hosted instance |
| VERIDIAN Veridian OS Sovereign, hardened OS. Community ISO free; paid support. | Community ISO, free forever | — | — | Enterprise support + hardening (Red Hat model) |
"—" means the product's value-add targets a higher-tier use case for that dimension. Features only add as you go up — nothing is removed from lower tiers. Citizen Browser is not limited; Pro Browser adds cosmetic perks.
Start anywhere
Start free. Scale when you need to. Own it if you want to.
Every product works in a browser or on infrastructure you run. The free tier is the real product — not a hook. If you need more, we will tell you what it costs and why.
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