Simpler pricing: pay per website, no minimum
We have replaced our pricing with something you can explain to somebody else in one sentence: start free, then pay for the websites you want watched.
No plans, no tiers, no minimum.
What changed
There is no minimum number of websites. Our Business plan used to require four before you could buy any, so the real cost of entry was $55.96 a month whatever the price on the page said. That minimum is gone. Buy one website, or fifty, at the same price each.
The Individuals plan has been retired. Once websites are priced individually with no minimum, a middle tier stops earning its place — for one or two sites it was dearer and scanned less often than simply buying those sites. Rather than leave a plan on the page that nobody should choose, we removed it.
You choose the scan frequency, per website. Daily, weekly or monthly, set on each site rather than fixed by a plan. A critical site can run daily while a brochure site runs monthly. On-demand scanning is included on every website you pay for.
Essential Eight compliance is now sold on its own. It used to require the Business plan, which — with that four-website minimum — meant the true cost of starting an assessment was $130.95 a month, not the $74.99 on the licence. You can now buy a company licence with no scanning subscription at all. Entry falls from $130.95 to $74.99.
The free account is unchanged and still free. One website, scanned monthly, five stored reports, the Microsoft 365 connector, no card. And it now does something it always could but we never said clearly: what that free scan finds attaches itself to the Essential Eight controls it evidences, whether or not you ever pay for scanning.
One thing we want to be straight about
If you buy Essential Eight on its own, your free website is scanned monthly. That will find issues on your site, and those findings become evidence in your assessment.
What it cannot do is evidence Maturity Level 1's requirement to patch internet-facing services within two weeks — a monthly scan interval is longer than the window it would have to demonstrate. It finds the problem; it cannot show how quickly you responded. Weekly or daily scanning can, and that is what a paid website buys.
We would rather you read that here than discover it at sign-off.
Why we did this
Honestly: because our own pricing page and our products page had stopped agreeing with each other, and when we went to check which one was right, neither was.
The products page advertised vulnerability testing "from AUD $13.99 per website / month". That figure was real, but it was the unit price of our most expensive plan, behind a four-website minimum — so it was not the entry price, it was not a price anyone could pay, and it was not even our lowest per-website rate, because Individuals worked out at $10.00 a site. Three different ways of being wrong, in one number, on the first page a prospect reads.
We could have edited the sentence. Removing the minimum seemed better: it makes the number true, and it makes the whole thing simpler to explain.
Nothing changes on your bill
Prices per website, per company licence and per team member are unchanged, in every currency. If you already have a subscription, it continues exactly as it is — this removes a floor and a tier, it does not reprice anything.