Every serious developer tool I use costs money. FORG is no different. Here is the honest reasoning — and why I think $9/month is a fair deal.
Free tiers exist for one of two reasons: they monetize your data, or they degrade quality for free users to make paid tiers look better. FORG can't do either.
FORG's core privacy guarantee is that it never reads, stores, or processes your prompts or AI completions. Maintaining that guarantee requires real infrastructure: HMAC-authenticated hooks, isolated signal schemas, cryptographic audit chains. That infrastructure costs money to run correctly.
A free tier would mean either: (a) monetizing data to cover costs, which breaks the privacy promise, or (b) running degraded infrastructure, which breaks the reliability promise. So we don't have one.
The math is straightforward. FORG should save you more than it costs within the first week.
The average developer spends 23 minutes re-establishing context at the start of a new AI session. FORG eliminates that. At even $50/hour, one recovered session per week is $100/month of value. FORG is $9.
Unmanaged token budgets, repetitive context-setting, and bloated prompts cost the average developer $30–80/month in LLM API fees. FORG's rule engine catches the waste in real time. Most users save more than their subscription cost in the first week.
Every FORG session runs through two Cloudflare Workers, a pgvector behavioral store, and a cryptographically-audited license system. That costs money to run reliably. A free tier would mean degraded infrastructure for paid users — we won't do that.
FORG never stores prompts or completions. Enforcing that zero-content policy requires per-session HMAC verification and careful schema design. That engineering investment is part of what you pay for. It's not available for free.
We understand. Start with the Developer tier at $9/month with no annual commitment — cancel any time from your dashboard. No lock-in, no retention flow. Your data is exportable in JSON before you leave.
Tools with free tiers typically monetize your data or degrade their service quality to protect paid users. FORG does neither. The no-free-tier decision is how we keep our privacy guarantee credible and our infrastructure fast.
Consider what you're paying for AI APIs, IDE extensions, and productivity tools. FORG is the only layer that watches all of them simultaneously and tells you what's working. At $9/month, it's the cheapest tool in your stack relative to the visibility it gives you.
You can cancel any time from your dashboard. No lock-in, no cancellation fee, no retention flow. Your data is exportable in JSON before you leave. We'd rather earn your renewal every month than trap you.
Start with Developer at $9/month. No annual commitment — cancel anytime from your dashboard.