Trial

Every new account automatically gets a 7-day trial with full access. No credit card, no auto-renewal.

What is included

The trial is functionally not a reduced mode. You see CodeCharter exactly as paying customers do.

How the trial starts

The 7 days start at registration, not at email confirmation or first login. Because you have to confirm your email before you can log in, confirm it promptly — the trial clock keeps running in the meantime. You can see the remaining time in the dashboard.

How the trial ends

During the last three days of the trial the portal shows a warning banner with the remaining time. On the day of expiry your access ends automatically.

After that:

• CI receives 402 Payment Required on the next release pull
• Downloads in the portal are no longer available
• Login still works — you can see your status but can no longer pull anything
• API keys remain valid, but release downloads and CI license requests made with them return 402 Payment Required until a subscription is active again

Extending the trial

Write to [email protected] with your request and we will extend it manually or help you switch to a paid plan.

Converting the trial to a subscription

In the portal under Billing you choose the plan and billing cycle and complete the process in Stripe Checkout. From the moment of payment your subscription continues seamlessly — no data migration needed, same account. Note that buying a paid plan ends the trial immediately at checkout; remaining trial days are not credited to the paid term.

Enterprise and on-premises run through [email protected] instead — we send the contract draft and invoice outside the Stripe flow.

Multiple trials per person

Not possible. There is one trial per email address. If you delete your account after the trial expires and try to register with the same address, the email blacklist will block it.

If you have a legitimate need for another trial access — for example because a new colleague wants to evaluate CodeCharter for their team — they simply register with their own email address and get their own trial.

Further reading

More at Plan overview.