Plans & billing
Understand active-contributor billing, review who counts as billable, exclude bot accounts, and manage your subscription.
TrimCI prices by people, not by seats or repositories: paid plans bill per active contributor — someone who actually triggered a pipeline in the last 30 days. Every organization starts with a 14-day Business-equivalent trial, no card required, and afterwards continues on the Free plan. Nothing is ever deleted when a plan changes; limits only narrow.
Paid checkout is not live yet, so after the trial every organization simply continues on the Free plan. Paid subscriptions launch with at least 30 days' notice, per our Terms of Service. The rest of this chapter describes how billing will work from that day on.
Simplified illustration — the real screens hold more detail, but the labels and steps match the app.
Step by step
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Know what an active contributor is
A billable contributor is a distinct human who triggered at least one pipeline run on a tracked repository in the rolling last 30 days, counted per provider username. Bots and system triggers are excluded automatically, and members who only view dashboards are never billed. A paid subscription always bills at least one contributor.
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Open the plan card
As an owner or admin, open Settings and switch to the "Plan & billing" tab. Its plan card shows your current plan badge and the active-contributor count, and — on a paid plan — the price per contributor (excluding VAT), the renewal date, and the billed quantity.
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Review billable contributors
The "Billable contributors" card on the same page lists every counted person with their runs and last activity. Use "Exclude from billable count" to drop an actor who should not count, and "Count as billable again" to bring one back — the change applies immediately.
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Upgrade through Paddle checkout
Today "Compare plans & upgrade" takes you to the pricing page, because there is nothing to buy yet. Once checkout opens it will lead to the "Choose a plan" page and its "Upgrade to Team" and "Upgrade to Business" buttons, and checkout will open in a Paddle overlay: the quantity is computed by TrimCI and cannot be edited there, prices exclude VAT (tax is added by location; business buyers can enter a VAT ID for reverse charge), and the quantity is trued up automatically before every renewal.
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Manage, switch, or cancel
Once paid plans launch, a paid plan’s card gains "Manage billing" — a Paddle billing portal for invoices, payment methods, and cancellation — and "Change plan" to switch between Team and Business with a price preview. Upgrades charge the prorated difference immediately; downgrades are credited on the next invoice. If you cancel, you keep every feature until the end of the paid period.
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If a payment fails
Once billing is live, a failed renewal marks the plan past due, but you keep your paid limits for a 7-day grace window while Paddle retries the card — use "Update payment method" on the plan card to settle it. Only after grace do limits drop to Free levels, and they restore the moment payment recovers. Data stays safe and sync never stops.
What each plan includes
Free: a 7-day history window, 1 PDF report per day, 5 AI recommendations per month, daily sync, and up to 2 active repositories. Around 3 active contributors you'll see an upgrade nudge — a soft threshold, never a lockout.
Team ($7/contributor/month, excluding VAT): a 30-day history window, 10 PDF reports per day, 50 AI recommendations per month, hourly sync, and unlimited members and repositories.
Business ($16/contributor/month, excluding VAT): a 60-day history window, unlimited PDF reports, 150 AI recommendations per month, hourly sync, and automatic failure-spike detection. Full details and ROI calculators live on the pricing page, and the refund policy explains how refunds work through Paddle: Pricing · Refund policy
Whenever you review your plan — and before every renewal once billing is live — glance at the Billable contributors card. Bots are filtered out automatically, but an external drive-by contributor to an open-source repository still counts until you exclude them — one click on the settings page.
Dropping to Free never deletes anything. The history window simply clamps to the Free range, and when a paid plan ends — after a cancellation or an expired grace window — repositories beyond the 2-repo cap are paused rather than removed. All history and settings return instantly when you upgrade again.