Pricing

VARICON uses a usage-based pricing model built around anomaly intelligence.

You don’t pay for running tests. You pay for understanding failures.

Start here

To understand how pricing behaves in real systems:

• Usage Simulator
• Billing Overview
• Metering Boundary

Or try the interactive calculator:

→ /pricing

Pricing model

VARICON pricing is based on a single unit:

1 enriched anomaly = 1 billable unit

An anomaly becomes billable only when it crosses the intelligence layer.

Free vs Paid

Free (Open Core)

Always free:

• anomaly detection
• extraction from reports
• fingerprinting
• artifact generation (JSONL, Markdown)
• CLI usage
• GitHub Action

This is the Signal Panel.

Paid (Intelligence Layer)

Paid features include:

• classification
• severity scoring
• remediation hints
• prioritization
• advanced anomaly interpretation

This is the Signal Interpretation Engine.

Base pricing

Example

A team processes:

• 80,000 enriched anomalies per month

Calculation:

• 10,000 free
• 70,000 paid × $0.001

$70 / month

What drives cost

Cost is driven by system behavior:

• total anomaly volume
• enrichment rate
• recurrence of anomalous behavior

In practice, cost is dominated by:

• repeated system failures
• unstable endpoints
• contract drift

Behavioral pricing model

VARICON pricing is not based on traffic.

It is based on how much of your system requires interpretation.

Two systems with identical traffic can have:

• radically different anomaly profiles
• radically different costs

Why this pricing works

Zero-friction adoption

Teams can run VARICON in CI with no billing setup.

Pay only for value

Billing starts only when anomalies are interpreted.

Scales with system complexity

More instability → more anomalies → more intelligence required.

Enterprise considerations

Enterprise deployments may include:

• volume discounts
• reserved usage tiers
• dedicated enrichment endpoints
• private intelligence packs
• custom policy packs

These are not part of the public pricing surface.

What is NOT billed

VARICON does not charge for:

• API requests
• test runs
• payload size
• artifact storage
• number of developers

This is intentional.

Fail-open pricing

If enrichment fails:

• anomalies still flow through the pipeline
• reports are still generated
• usage is not counted

Billing only occurs when value is delivered.

Cost predictability

Pricing remains predictable because:

• anomaly counts are observable in CI
• fingerprints deduplicate repeated issues
• usage follows system behavior, not traffic

Simple mental model

monthly_cost ≈ enriched_anomalies × price_per_anomaly

Positioning

Traditional tools charge for:

• logs
• events
• seats
• infrastructure

VARICON charges for:

understanding anomalies in system behavior

Summary

VARICON pricing is:

• usage-based
• intelligence-driven
• open-core aligned
• safe-by-default

Detection is free. Understanding is paid.