Skip to content

Pricing

Honest, local-first pricing. One tier is free forever. One tier is a one-time purchase that works offline for life — even if we disappear. One tier is a monthly plan, but only for teams that want shared infrastructure.

Free — $0

Keep every session you've ever run, browsable forever.

  • Full indexing of every ~/.claude/projects/ JSONL — no cap on number of sessions
  • CLI: recall list, recall show, recall projects, recall status
  • Web UI: browse projects, read transcripts, per-code-block copy
  • All your history preserved — three-layer durability (SQLite + plain-text mirror + source files untouched)
  • No time limits. No feature expiry. No dark-pattern upsells.

Pro — $29.69 one-time

Everything above, plus the features that make this a daily driver:

| Feature | What it gives you | |---|---| | Full-text search | BM25-ranked hit results across every message in every session, in milliseconds | | recall context re-injection | Pipe any past session into a new Claude Code conversation — the feature nobody else has | | MCP server | Claude Desktop / Claude Code calls search, get_session, context_for_session as native tools | | VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf extension | Auto-name sessions with your terminal tab name | | Organize | Aliases, tags (#auth-fix), markdown notes, pins, date range filters, cross-session diff | | Export | Clean markdown, self-contained dark-mode HTML, print-ready | | Virtualized transcript | 10,000-message sessions open instantly | | Every personal-use feature we ever ship | One price, all future updates for personal use included |

Why one-time, not monthly? Your data lives on your disk. There's no cloud server we have to run for you. Charging monthly for software that runs locally would be unfair. Pay once, use forever.

The dead-man clause. Your license key validates against our server exactly once — at activation. After that, Recall works offline forever. If clauderecall.com ever disappears, every existing license stays valid. We'll publish the validation secret if we ever shut down, so you're never stranded.

Launch discount planned: $19 for the first 1,000 Pro customers.

Team — $9 per seat / month (minimum 3 seats)

For teams that want shared session memory across humans, not just machines.

  • Everything in Pro for every seat
  • Shared session library with automatic secrets redaction before anyone else sees your sessions
  • Team-wide tags and naming conventions — say #auth-fix means the same thing for everyone
  • Audit log of who viewed which session (for compliance, not surveillance — the log lives on your team server, not ours)
  • Priority support with 24h first-response SLA
  • Future: SSO, per-project access control

The team tier is monthly because it requires an optional sync service we do have to run. The local-first core is unchanged — every teammate still has the full DB on their own laptop; team sync is additive, end-to-end encrypted, and opt-in per session.

FAQ

Can I upgrade from Free to Pro without losing data?

Yes. Your ~/.recall/ directory is identical across tiers. Paying the license unlocks features; it doesn't migrate any data.

What payment methods?

Stripe + Apple Pay + Google Pay via LemonSqueezy (our Merchant of Record — they handle global tax so we don't have to). No crypto.

Can I use one license on two machines?

Yes — the license is per-user, not per-machine. Use it on your laptop + your desktop. Team tier has explicit seat counting.

Refund policy?

30 days, no questions asked. Email and we refund — no survey, no "are you sure" dialog.

Is there an educational discount?

Yes: $9 for verified students and open-source maintainers (GitHub @ with 100+ stars on any repo). Email after purchase, we refund the difference.

What if Anthropic ships this natively in Claude Code?

Three things:

  1. Our moat isn't the indexing — that's the easy part. It's the recall context re-injection, tags, notes, team sharing, cross-AI support, MCP server, and the fact that your data stays local forever.
  2. Anthropic can't build the "even if we disappear" promise — they're a cloud company.
  3. If they do ship and it's better than ours, your Pro license still works offline forever (dead-man clause). You lose nothing.

Why this pricing works — the honest math

  • Free tier exists because indexing is cheap for us (we don't run servers for it) and generous free tiers win adoption for developer tools. Raycast, Obsidian, TablePlus, Proxyman all proved this.
  • $29.69 Pro is priced against comparable one-time dev tools: TablePlus $89, Proxyman $59, Dash $30, Tower annual $69. We're cheaper because search + context are the value — polish comes with updates over time.
  • Team $9/seat undercuts Notion ($10), Linear ($8–16), and most team dev tools. Fair share for the sync infrastructure we'd actually run.

What we are NOT doing (on principle)

  • No subscription-only pricing for Pro. Your software shouldn't expire when your card does.
  • No feature gates that disable things you already used. Upgrade = unlock, never lock-out.
  • No anti-piracy DRM. We respect you. The dead-man clause + one-time price model makes piracy unnecessary.
  • No ads, upsells, or dark patterns in the product.
  • No selling your data. We literally cannot — we don't have it.

Pricing last updated: April 2026. If this page changes, your existing license terms don't.