What Truthring will cost, and what we will not charge for
Truthring has not launched, so nothing here can be bought yet. These are the prices we intend to charge: a free check that stays genuinely useful at three a day, then $19, $49 and $149 a month for reporting, volume and programmatic access. Two commitments about charging were settled before any of these figures, and they constrain them.
These prices are intent, not an offer. There is no checkout, no card field and no trial running, and nothing on this page can be purchased today. If you find a Truthring plan being sold anywhere — in a directory, a comparison article, an app store — it was not published by us.
Two commitments that come before the price
These are not marketing positions we can revise once a finance model arrives. They constrain the pricing rather than following from it, which is why they are written down first.
An unclear verdict is never billed. When the audio does not support an answer, we say so, and that check does not count against anything. Charging for it would create a quiet pressure to convert non-answers into answers, and a detector that finds reasons to be confident is a detector that has stopped being useful.
Accuracy is never a paid tier. The free check will run the same model, at the same thresholds, against the same signature set as the most expensive plan we ever sell. A vendor offering a more accurate upgrade is admitting that the cheaper product is worse than it could be, and has decided that is acceptable. It is not.
What will be free
Submitting a recording and receiving a verdict. The confidence figure that goes with it, the false positive rate for audio in that condition, the generator name where the clip matches something we hold, and the plain-language reason. Everything that answers the question what is this file.
The allowance is three checks a day, without an account. What is also decided is that the person with a single alarming voice note, at eleven at night, worrying about a family member, is not the person this product should be extracting money from.
What a paid plan is intended to cover
Everything that comes after the verdict rather than the verdict itself. The written report naming the model version that produced the result. Retrieval of past analyses by reference code, months later, after retraining. Volume, for organisations checking recordings routinely rather than once. Longer files. Programmatic access. Configurable retention, including retaining nothing.
Put plainly, a paid plan buys the parts that make a conclusion survive being argued with. When no one is going to contest your conclusion, you do not need one, and we would rather say so here than after you have subscribed. The reasoning behind that split is set out on audio verification.
The shape we intend
Intended pricing. None of these is available to buy yet. An unclear verdict is never counted against any allowance, on the free tier or a paid one.
| Intended tier | Who it is for | What it is meant to cover | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free check | Anyone with a recording and a question | Full-accuracy verdict, confidence, error rate for that audio condition, generator where known | Free 3 checks a day, no account |
| Individual | Someone dealing with one specific situation | Everything free, plus written reports naming the model version, retrieval by reference code, longer clips | $19/month 100 checks a month |
| Professional | Investigators, HR, legal teams, newsrooms | Everything above, plus case history, bulk export, reports built to be challenged, priority support | $49/month 1,000 checks a month |
| Programmatic | Products and pipelines checking at volume | Everything above, plus REST API, configurable retention including retaining nothing, volume rates | $149/month 10,000 checks a month |
Prices are in US dollars. Annual billing, INR pricing, tax treatment and any reduced rate for non-profit or victim-support use are not settled: [VERIFY: annual discount, INR pricing and non-profit rate not set]. The API is described, as a design, on the API page — it is not open.
Why these numbers could still move
An earlier version of this page refused to publish any price at all, on the grounds that pricing a detector before you can state its error rate is pricing a claim rather than a product. That reasoning has not stopped being true, so it is worth saying plainly what changed and what did not.
What changed is that somebody deciding whether this product is worth their attention needs to know roughly what it costs, and withholding that helps nobody. What did not change is that the measurements still gate the launch. The per-condition error rates on the accuracy page are not finished. If they come back worse than we expect, these numbers move or the tiers do.
That is the difference between intent and an offer. Intent can be revised in public; an offer cannot. Until there is a checkout, this is the former.
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Questions
How much does Truthring cost?
Nothing yet, because nothing is for sale yet. The intended pricing is a free check at three a day, then $19 a month for written reports and retrieval, $49 a month for case volume and export, and $149 a month for API access. None of it can be bought until the detector launches.
Will there be a free tier?
Yes. Three checks a day, no account needed, running the identical analysis at identical thresholds, with the verdict, the confidence figure, the error rate and the generator name where we can give one. The intent is that somebody with one worrying voice note never has to pay to find out about it.
Is the free check less accurate than a paid one?
No, and it never will be. Selling a more accurate tier would mean deliberately holding back accuracy from people who cannot pay, in a product whose whole argument is honesty about error. Paid plans will differ in volume, reporting and retention. Never in the model.
Do you charge for an unclear result?
No. If the audio does not support a judgement, that is reported as its own outcome and it is not counted against any allowance, free or paid. We do not want a commercial incentive to stop returning honest non-answers, because the temptation to round an unclear result into a confident one is exactly the failure this product exists to avoid.
Why is Truthring priced above the TextSight voice detector?
They do different jobs. The TextSight voice detector answers whether a clip is synthetic, free for three checks a day or $9 to $99 a month at volume. Truthring is built for the case where somebody is going to argue with the answer: the report names the model version that produced it, the analysis can be retrieved by reference code months later after retraining, and the false positive rate for that audio condition is published alongside the verdict. Both are operated by Lacewing Technologies. If nobody is going to contest your conclusion, the cheaper tool is the right one, and we would rather say that here than after you have subscribed.
How do I get access before launch?
Ask. Early access is being handled by conversation rather than by a signup form, and we would rather know what you need a detector for than collect an email address. There is no waiting list position, no priority queue and nothing to pay.
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