Why Vulkro never auto-renews

Almost every security tool you can buy is a subscription. You enter a card, a SaaS platform bills it every month or every year, and the charge keeps coming until someone remembers to cancel, finds the right dashboard, and clicks through a retention flow. Vulkro is built the opposite way on purpose.

A per-term license, never auto-billed. Renewal is a deliberate decision you make, not a calendar event that happens to you.

How it actually works​

• You buy a term, not a subscription. A license is a fixed term. You pay once for that term.
• Nothing auto-bills. There is no stored card quietly charging you next cycle. When a term ends, it ends. The CLI tells you the license lapsed, and you decide whether to request another term.
• Nothing you made goes away. When a term lapses, the CLI asks you to request a new license; your reports, scan history, and configuration stay on your machine and remain yours.

Why we built it this way​

Auto-renewal is a trap your procurement team has been burned by​

Auto-renewing SaaS lines are the ones nobody owns the cancellation for. They survive headcount changes, they renew on a date no one tracked, and untangling them is its own project. A per-term license that simply expires removes that failure mode entirely. There is nothing to cancel because there is nothing recurring.

A scanner should not hold your work hostage​

A lapsed license must never cost you what you already produced. Reports, scan history, baselines, and configuration live on your machine and stay yours after a term ends. Pressuring a user into paying by locking up or deleting their own artifacts is the wrong incentive for a security tool, so we do not do it.

Recurring revenue should be earned, not extracted​

We are not against people paying us year after year. We are against charging them automatically whether or not the product still earns it. So we frame recurring revenue honestly: it is voluntary funding that ships features faster. Every renewal is a customer deciding, with full information, that the product is worth another term. That keeps the pressure on us to keep shipping, instead of coasting on a card we already have on file.

This is not a "subscription"​

We are deliberate about the word. Calling a Vulkro license a subscription without the qualifier "no auto-renewal" would erase the one thing that makes it different. It is a per-term license. The contrast with auto-billing SaaS is the point, not a footnote.

The plans​

There is no published plan table and no self-serve checkout. Every license (single seat, team, and enterprise) is a fixed term issued directly by our team, with explicit terms you agree to before anything is charged, and none of them auto-renew. Write to [email protected] and we will respond with terms for your team. See the pricing page for how licensing works end to end.

In short​

You pay for a term, the term expires, and nothing charges you behind your back. When you want the product back, you request another term. No stored card, no surprise charge, no retention flow. That is the whole policy.

See also: Pricing, Trust, About, CVE bundle.