A Pricing Model That Stays Fair

I think pricing is part of the product. If the pricing model does not hold up over time, the product will not either.

Most software pricing is designed around short horizons. Monthly growth targets. Feature tiers. Per-user fees that quietly increase as more people are added. That model works for tools meant to be replaced in a few years. It does not work for something families are expected to rely on across generations.

Aeonry is being built for long time spans. That means pricing needs to be predictable, understandable, and stable. Families should know what they are paying for today and have confidence that the same structure will still make sense ten or twenty years from now.

The pricing model reflects how families actually persist over time.

In Aeonry, pricing is centered on vaults, not individuals. A primary vault has a clear owner responsible for billing, but that vault can serve many people across generations. As families grow and branch, descendants share in the cost of preserving what came before them.

Over time, the cost of maintaining an ancestor's records is naturally spread across many descendants. What might feel expensive for one person becomes trivial when shared across a family tree. This makes it possible to fund the long-term preservation of a life's records without placing an unfair burden on any single generation.

This is intentional. Shared history should not disappear because one person can no longer justify the cost. By allowing responsibility to be inherited and shared, Aeonry makes it possible for records to be preserved indefinitely.

Additional family members can be added without per-user fees or artificial limits. Collaboration does not increase the price simply because more people care. Storage costs are measured and transparent, reflecting actual resource usage rather than engagement or activity.

As vaults branch, pricing remains clear. Each primary vault stands on its own, while shared ancestor vaults continue to be supported by the families that rely on them. This mirrors how families actually function. Responsibility is distributed. Stewardship continues even as individuals change.

As Aeonry opens to early access, pricing details will be shared clearly and kept stable for the families who join first. The goal is not to optimize short-term revenue, but to build a system families can trust to exist long after the original creators are gone.

If families are going to invest generations of history into a platform, the business model behind it must be designed to last just as long.