Plans
Free to start. Maker when it becomes a system.
Two plans, and the same app for both. Direct projects, over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, cost nothing and need no account, on any plan and forever. The plans are about the Cloud: how many devices, how long a history, how many rules.
Two devices, as many projects as you like, and the whole workflow end to end.
- 2 devices
- 6 historised signals
- 7 days of history
- 2 automations
- 50 push notifications a day
$69.99 a year, billed once. You save $25.89, three months of Maker.
More boards, more sensors, a whole season of history, and rules that watch for you.
- 25 devices
- 40 historised signals
- 90 days of history
- 25 automations
- 500 push notifications a day, and 30 e-mails a month
Prices are in US dollars; the store shows them in your currency. Yearly is $69.99, the price of nine months. You subscribe from the app, in My profile → My plan, through Google Play. Cancel there any time: the plan runs to the end of the period you paid for, then the account goes back to Free.
| What you get | Free | Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Devices and signals | ||
| Devices on the Cloud Boards registered to your account, across all your projects. | 2 | 25 |
| Historised signals Signals that keep a history and draw a chart. The others keep their last value, without a limit. | 6 | 40 |
| Values per month Every value a device sends. A sensor once a second all month is about 2.6 million. | 3 million | 30 million |
| Widgets All seventeen, on every plan. | ✓ | ✓ |
| History | ||
| How far back you can look By the minute for the last days, by the hour and by the day beyond. | 7 days | 90 days |
| Last value of every signal when you open the app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automations and notifications | ||
| Automations Rules that run on the server, app closed: a threshold, a device gone silent, a set time. | 2 | 25 |
| Push notifications a day | 50 | 500 |
| E-mails a month | — | 30 |
| Notifications of any importance, and the critical ones in their own tab | ✓ | ✓ |
| Everywhere | ||
| Direct projects, over Bluetooth or Wi-Fi No account, no limit, no Internet. | ✓ | ✓ |
| The same projects on every phone you sign in on | ✓ | ✓ |
| The Arduino library, open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Help from other makers at the community | ✓ | ✓ |
One safety is the same on every plan and is not for sale: a device may send up to 10 values a second. Beyond that the values are refused and counted, and the connection stays up. It is not a quota, it is what catches a loop() that writes without a timer.
What happens when I reach a limit?
The app says so, and nothing is deleted. A third device on Free is refused until you upgrade or remove one. A third rule is refused the same way. The history keeps the last 7 or 90 days and lets the older values go, day by day.
Is Free enough to really use it?
Yes. Projects are not counted; devices are. Two devices, two rules, a week of charts and fifty alerts a day is a greenhouse, a tank or a workshop, watched from anywhere.
When is Maker worth it?
The day the project stops being an experiment. You want a third board, then a tenth: the workshop, the garden, the garage, each with its sensors. You want to see a whole season, not a week: the temperature of the greenhouse since spring, the level of the tank month after month, the trend before the failure. You want the rules to do the watching: twenty-five of them, five hundred alerts a day, and an e-mail when it matters. Maker is that: twenty-five devices, forty signals with ninety days of history, and the Cloud keeping an eye on all of it while you are somewhere else. For the price of a coffee a month, the whole system stays yours.
Do I need a plan for Bluetooth or Wi-Fi next to the board?
No. A Direct project never touches the Cloud. It is free, it needs no account, and it stays that way.
What if I move from Maker back to Free?
Your projects, dashboards and devices stay. What exceeds Free is paused, not deleted: two devices keep connecting, the others are refused until you remove some or come back to Maker; two rules keep running, the others are switched off. History beyond seven days is dropped. Return to Maker and everything resumes where it was.
Is there a bigger plan?
A Pro plan, for a hundred devices and a history without end, is on the way. If you need it before it opens, write to rejoindre@instantiot.io.
Maker
Which phone do you use?
You subscribe from the app, in My profile → My plan. Get it first, then upgrade in one tap.