# Plans

> What each plan is for, from publishing with no account to paid plans with custom domains, and where to read current prices and caps.

Source: https://docs.shipstatic.com/plans

Publishing costs nothing and needs no account. A plan decides how much an account can hold and what it can do. Prices and caps change over time, so this page names none: they live in one place, the plan menu, which you can read on the [pricing page](https://www.shipstatic.com/pricing) or from the API.

## What each plan is for

| Plan | For |
|------|-----|
| No account | Publishing right now. The site is public, uses the Free limits, and expires in 3 days unless it is [claimed](https://docs.shipstatic.com/deployments#public-deployments) |
| Free | Keeping sites permanently, and choosing [platform domains](https://docs.shipstatic.com/domains#platform-domains) like `my-app.shipstatic.com` |
| Pro | Your own [custom domains](https://docs.shipstatic.com/domains#custom-domains) (`www.example.com`), more deployments and platform domains, and larger deploys |
| Team | Pro's features with higher caps, shared with teammates through seats |
| Scale | Publishing sites for other people, such as an agency's client work. Arranged directly: see the [pricing page](https://www.shipstatic.com/pricing) |

## Prices and caps

The pricing page shows the menu to people. Programs read the same menu from `GET https://api.shipstatic.com/plans`: public, no credential, every plan on sale in display order, under `plans`. Each row carries:

| Field | Meaning |
|-------|---------|
| `plan` | The plan's id, as `GET /account` reports it |
| `name` | Its display name |
| `price` | `{ month, year }` in whole US cents (`1000` is $10.00), or `"contact"` for a plan arranged directly |
| `caps` | What an account on it may hold: `deployments`, `platformDomains`, `customDomains` and `seats`. `null` for a plan arranged directly |
| `closed` | Present when the plan is listed but cannot be ordered yet. Its value is the sentence to show |

Checkout shows the final amount, including any tax that applies where you are.

The size of a single deploy (largest file, file count, total size) is not a cap an account accumulates; it is on [Deployments](https://docs.shipstatic.com/deployments#limits).

## Your plan

`GET /account` answers your plan, what the account holds (`usage`) and what it may hold (`caps`), with the same keys as the menu's caps, so one divides by the other. The Plan page in the [Web](https://docs.shipstatic.com/web) console shows the same.

## Changing plans

Upgrade from the [Web](https://docs.shipstatic.com/web) console. Moving up takes effect at once; moving down takes effect at the end of the billing period. A custom domain the new plan no longer covers is paused rather than deleted: its DNS is kept, and it serves again after an upgrade (see [Domains](https://docs.shipstatic.com/domains#status)).