AmberKeyPricing
Free to plan. One price for the watch.
Planning is free forever, and everything you build works without us. You pay for one thing: the service that keeps watch after you stop checking in — and the human support that makes it usable for the family who inherits it.
Plan
Free forever
Build the whole plan. Everything you make works without us, forever.
- Coverage map and account cards
- Vault with client-side encryption
- Print-at-home card kit
- Encrypted bundle export and import
- Fire drills
- Self-share circles (cards you keep yourself)
Watched
$79 per year
We stand watch: the parts that must keep running when you no longer can.
- Everything in Plan
- Automatic check-in watch: gentle nudges long before anything escalates
- Quarterly circle health checks
- Ceremony coordination with the veto window
- Encrypted bundle storage and sync (versioned)
- Email and SMS notifications
- Email support for you and your family — never required to recover
Household
$119 per year
Two vaults, one price. Estate planning is a household decision.
- Two Watched vaults
- Circle members can be shared between them
- One renewal to keep track of
For professionals
Estate planners
Offer digital-asset continuity to your clients without ever holding their passwords — the blind design means no custody, no key-person risk, no new liability in your files. A professional is simply one card holder among several; cards alone unlock nothing. Volume pricing, client-status views (metadata only, with consent), and bulk kits are in development. Tell us how you work and we'll shape it with you.
Billed yearly, because this product's rhythm is quarterly check-ins and an annual fire drill, not a monthly decision. There is no lifetime plan on purpose: a forever promise funded by a one-time payment is exactly the kind of promise we refuse to make.
What we will never charge for
Recovery, ever
The ceremony, the release, the offline tool, the specifications, the source code. Your circle members never pay anything and never create an account. When your family needs this most, there is no bill and no login.
The same cryptography for everyone
No tiers-of-trust games. Free and paid vaults use identical encryption, identical cards, identical recovery. You pay for operation, not for safety.
If you stop paying
Your subscription lapsing is designed to be boring. The switch keeps watching for twelve more months, the same commitment we make about our own shutdown. Your bundles stay downloadable. And your printed cards and the offline tool never expire, because you never gave us anything we could hold hostage. The worst case of not paying us is the case we already engineered for: AmberKey not being there.
A subscription lapsing after your death cannot lock your family out either: release of the encrypted bundle and the offline reconstruction don't stop working because a card on file expired. We are not in the business of ransoming the dead.
See also: what happens if we shut down entirely.