// simple, flat pricing
Start without a card. Upgrade when two integrations or five services is no longer enough.
No trial countdown. No annual contract. Polar is Beaam’s merchant of record; cancel any time and keep paid access until the end of the period.
Every competitor is organised around a meter you have to watch: hosts, monitors, checks, login seats, responders. That is not just a billing choice — it changes what you monitor.
When each monitor costs $2, you will not consciously decide to leave your payment webhook unwatched. You will simply not get round to adding it, because you are keeping the bill down. Metered monitoring quietly encourages under-instrumentation, which is the exact thing monitoring exists to prevent. The tool ends up arguing against its own purpose at the checkout.
Flat pricing removes the decision. "Monitor everything" becomes the default rather than an upsell, and the bill does not change when your stack grows.
Not to UptimeRobot's $7. The comparison that matters is one hour of your time debugging at 2am, or the revenue from a single silent outage. Against those, $19 is a rounding error — and if it is not, that is useful information about whether you need monitoring yet.
For context on the alternatives: a dozen-service indie stack on Datadog commonly runs into the hundreds per month once APM and logs are on. Better Stack's add-on model compounds — monitors, heartbeats and status pages priced separately. Per-seat on-call tooling starts around $20–45 per responder. Beaam is $19, and stays $19.
The limits are not arbitrary. Two integrations and five services is exactly enough to point Beaam at a couple of non-critical services and watch them work over a week — the "see value before granting durable access" idea. It is not enough to run a real stack, because a real stack spans several providers, and someone depending on Beaam wants an important alert on their phone rather than sitting in an inbox.
The upgrade trigger arrives naturally: the second integration, or the first time you want SMS. No countdown, no nag.
No, and it does not expire. It is deliberately enough to prove the entire path — connect a service, get a first signal, receive a real delivered alert — and deliberately not enough to run a production stack, which needs several integrations.
One thing Beaam checks: a Worker, a Supabase project, a Stripe account, an HTTP endpoint. Discovery usually finds far more than you watch — connecting a Cloudflare account may inventory hundreds of resources, and you choose which matter.
Nothing breaks and nothing is deleted. You are told you have reached the limit when you try to add beyond it. Existing services keep being watched and keep alerting.
No, no, and no. Solo is $19 whether Beaam sends one alert a year or fifty in a week, and whether you watch three services or three hundred.
Yes, in one click from billing. You keep paid access until the end of the period you have paid for. There is no annual contract and no cancellation conversation.
Polar, as merchant of record. They handle invoicing and sales tax or VAT properly for wherever you are, which is worth the small premium over raw card processing when the alternative is a solo founder filing tax in forty jurisdictions.
Not yet, and it will not be built until Solo has paying users asking for it. When it ships it will keep the philosophy: a flat base covering the first few people, not per-seat from seat one.
No student, startup or non-profit tiers — $19 is already priced as the cheap option, and a discount scheme is complexity a one-person company should not carry. If the price is genuinely the blocker for you, email support@beaam.app and say so.