Pricing
Publishing is free and always will be — a receipt nobody can share proves nothing. You pay for permanence and identity: the things that matter when a receipt has to hold up months later.
Paid plans are not live yet. The Free plan works today. Pro and Studio are in onboarding with our payment provider and will open shortly — the prices below are final and will not change at launch.
You buy access a block at a time — 31 days or 365 days, paid up front. Nothing renews on its own and we keep no card on file. Buy again before a block ends and the new days are added on top.
Free
- 3 published receipts per month
- Full capture & verification
- AI model disclosure
- Shareable public receipt links
- 30-day receipt history
- Cothenticity badge on receipts
Pro
- Unlimited published receipts
- Permanent receipt history
- Custom author identity
- No Cothenticity badge
- Receipt export (JSON + PDF)
- Priority email support
Studio
- Everything in Pro
- 5 seats included, up to 50
- Shared team dashboard
- Team verification page
- Consolidated billing
- Priority support
Pay by bank transfer
Something else — name the amount
For an enterprise arrangement, a bulk Verify API deposit, or an invoice already agreed with us. This is a one-off payment, not a subscription — it does not change your plan on its own, and we confirm what it covers before anything is enabled.
Accounts
An account is an email address and nothing else. There is no password to choose, forget, or have stolen — signing in means clicking a link we email you, which works once and expires in fifteen minutes. We store only a one-way hash of that link and of your session, so a copy of our database contains nothing anyone could sign in with.
What an account gives you
Your receipts follow you between devices instead of living in one browser, and your monthly allowance is tracked against you rather than your network connection.
What it does not do
It does not hold your manage keys. Those stay on your device, and we cannot recover them for you — on any plan, at any price. That is the point of them.
Receipts published before signing up
Already published anonymously? Sign in and the dashboard offers to link them, proved by the manage key already in your browser. Nothing new to remember.
Customers
Cothenticity is for people whose work is judged by someone who was not in the room while it was made.
Freelancers & consultants
Writers, analysts, designers and developers who are increasingly asked “did you actually make this?” and currently have no answer beyond their word.
Agencies & studios
Teams delivering client work who want provenance attached to a deliverable as standard, without asking clients to trust a policy document.
Educators & assessors
Anyone marking work who would rather see how it was made than run it through a detector that guesses, and is wrong often enough to matter.
Platforms & marketplaces
Services that need to verify submissions at scale, through the Verify API rather than person by person.
Packages
Three packages, each a different answer to the same question — how much does this receipt need to prove, and for how long?
| Free | Pro | Studio | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published receipts | 3 / month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| History kept | 30 days | Permanent | Permanent |
| Seats | 1 | 1 | 5 included, up to 50 |
| Cothenticity badge | Shown | Removable | Removable |
| Monthly | R0 | R149 | R399 |
| Annual | — | R1,490 | R3,990 |
| Extra seats | — | — | R79 / month each |
Publishing and verification are free on every plan, forever. Anyone can check a receipt they were sent without an account, without a limit, and without us knowing who they are. A verifier that asks who you are is not a verifier.
Verify API
For platforms that need to verify receipts at scale — marketplaces, agencies, universities, publishers. Usage-based, priced on volume. Talk to us.
What you are actually paying for
Every receipt Cothenticity issues is written into an append-only ledger at the moment it is published — a record that cannot be edited or deleted, by us or by anyone else, and that is hash-chained so tampering is detectable rather than merely forbidden.
On the Free plan a receipt's history is kept for 30 days. On a paid plan it is permanent. That difference is the product: a receipt is only worth having if it is still there, and still verifiable, when somebody finally asks.
Billing
| Currency | South African Rand (ZAR). Cards from outside South Africa are accepted and converted by your bank. |
|---|---|
| VAT | Sam Squared Softwares (Pty) Ltd is not currently a VAT vendor, so prices are not subject to South African VAT. If that changes, prices shown will include VAT before it applies to any new purchase. |
| How you pay | You buy a block of access up front, and that is the whole transaction. Monthly is 31 days. Annual is 365 days. There is no subscription, no card kept on file, and nothing is ever charged again automatically. |
| Paying again | Buy another block whenever you like. If you buy before the current one runs out, the new days are added on top — paying early never costs you time you have already paid for. |
| Changing plan | Buy the plan you want and it takes effect immediately. Any days left on your current plan carry over to the new one rather than being lost. |
| When it runs out | Nothing to cancel. Access ends when the days you bought are used up and your account returns to Free limits. No reminder charge, no lapsed-payment chase. |
| If a payment fails | The payment either completes or it does not. Nothing is charged again, and nothing on your account changes until a payment succeeds. Receipts already published stay published. |
| Paying by EFT | Available on request for annual and team purchases. We confirm the transfer by hand and activate your account once it clears. |
When your access runs out
Your published receipts do not disappear. They remain live and verifiable. What changes is your account: you return to Free plan limits for new receipts, and the extended history and export features stop being available until you buy another block.
This is deliberate. People who relied on a receipt you shared should not lose the ability to verify it because of a billing event between you and us.
Refunds
See the Refund & Cancellation Policy. In short: 14 days, money back, no questions on your first paid purchase. Email us and we reverse the payment by hand — there is no subscription to unwind.
Questions
cothenticity@sam-squared.com
Sam Squared Softwares (Pty) Ltd, registration number 2026/536077/07
Registered office: 84 Donovan Street, Glen Austin, Midrand, Gauteng, 1685, South Africa