The Honest Pricing Pledge

Vaulith’s product is verifiability — a cleaner whose privacy claims you can check on the wire. A brand like that cannot have arithmetic that fails an audit. So here is exactly how we will and won’t sell to you, in writing, with the enforcement mechanism attached.

Signed August 12, 2026 · Applies to every Vaulith surface: this site, the dashboard, and the desktop app’s upgrade screens

The pledge

• No manufactured anchors. You will never see a crossed-out “was” price on a Vaulith surface. A struck-through number implies a price that was really charged; inventing one is lying with typography.
• No countdown timers. No ticking clocks, no “last chance tonight” banners. The only deadline we’ll ever show is one that’s real and enforced in the checkout code — like the Founding Member window below.
• No coupon ladders. No stacked percent-off badges, no “extra discount applied just for you,” no exit-intent popups. One price per plan, the same for everyone, the same on every surface.
• Every per-month figure shows its annual total. A monthly price that hides its yearly cost is an anchor in disguise. Ours: Vaulith Pro is $29/yr billed once, or $3.99/mo ($47.88/yr) month-to-month — the annual figure travels with the monthly one everywhere it appears.
• Lifetime means lifetime. A Founding Member license ($129 once) is never converted to a subscription, never re-charged, and covers every v1.x update. If we ever sell a v2 upgrade, it will be an offer, not an obligation.
• Real scarcity only. The Founding Member offer is limited to 500 licenses, through October 11, 2026 — whichever ends it first. Both limits are enforced server-side in the purchase path: after either one, the $129 price cannot be charged, no matter what any cached page says. The successor price is published now — $179 — so early buyers can verify their advantage later, and so we can’t quietly move the goalposts.
• Refunds stated plainly. Paid plans carry a 7-day money-back guarantee. We’ll note honestly: some competitors offer 30 days. Ours is 7, it’s in plain sight, and there’s no runaround inside it — plus a free tier and no account requirement, so you can evaluate as long as you like before paying anything.
• No fear-selling. We will never inflate “problems found” to scare you into upgrading. Every finding ships with evidence you can inspect, and every scan discloses what it did not check.

Enforced by the build, not by good intentions

Promises drift. Code checks don’t. This site’s repository runs an automated honesty check (lint:website) over every page before deploy. It fails the build on: strikethrough price markup, countdown-timer markup, any per-month price without an adjacent annual total, and any quantitative claim without a declared source. If we broke this pledge, our own pipeline would stop the deploy — and because the check ships in the repo, breaking that would leave a public trail.

The patterns we’re refusing, by name

These are standard conversion mechanics in the cleaner category. They work. We’re opting out anyway, because a verifiability brand can’t run promotions its own customers couldn’t audit. Each observation below was checked against the cited live page; if a competitor has since changed their page, their site is the truth, not this paragraph.

• The discount ladder. MacKeeper’s pricing page shows “77% off” and “46% off” badges computed against the same $131.40 anchor, with a further “+10%” discount “applied” on top and a “15% OFF” special-offer banner beside them. (mackeeper.com/pricing, checked Aug 12, 2026)
• The de-fanged monthly. CleanMyMac’s product page leads with “Starting at $3.33/month” with no billed total or commitment term stated on the page. (macpaw.com/cleanmymac, checked Aug 12, 2026) Gemini’s page similarly leads with “Starting at $1.95/month” without license terms on the page. (macpaw.com/gemini, checked Aug 12, 2026)
• The price-free pricing page. CCleaner’s Mac product page offers “Free Download” and “Buy Now” buttons with no dollar amount stated on the page. (ccleaner.com/ccleaner-mac, checked Aug 12, 2026)

To be fair in both directions: the same pages also do things well — CleanMyMac’s trial-first funnel is genuinely customer-friendly, and DaisyDisk’s $9.99-once, 5-Mac, 30-day-refund terms are the fairness standard of the category (daisydiskapp.com, checked Aug 12, 2026). Our full, both-sides comparison is at /compare.

Our prices, stated the way we’d want them stated to us

• Free — $0, forever. No account, no card, no trial clock.
• Vaulith Pro — $29/yr billed once, or $3.99/mo ($47.88/yr) month-to-month. Cancel anytime; you keep what you already paid for.
• Founding Member — $129 once. Every v1.x update, Mac & Windows, up to 3 devices. First 500 members or through October 11, 2026, whichever comes first — both limits enforced in the checkout server; the price afterward is $179.

All plans: 7-day money-back guarantee, one price per plan on every surface, renewal price identical to the sticker price. Full details on the pricing page.