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Billing and security

How usage-based pricing works

If you don't choose a monthly plan, you pay for the storage and the operations your company actually uses. No seats to buy.

Kipuu charges for three things, and you can follow all of them live on the Usage screen:

  1. Storage: how much your company keeps stored, measured as the average of each day's peak during the month.
  2. Uploads and changes: each file you upload or replace.
  3. Opens and downloads: each time someone opens or downloads a file.

Downloads have no transfer fee, no matter how large the file is. Browsing folders is free.

The Usage screen for the month

Who can see usage

Owners and administrators see the Usage screen. Editors and viewers work with files and never see billing.

Estimate before you start

The calculator on the Pricing page uses exactly the same math as your monthly bill.

What each thing costs

  1. Storage: $0.0375 per GB a month starting December 1, 2026 ($0.0255 until November 30), charged by the day. A GB kept for 10 days costs about a third of a full month.
  2. Uploads and changes: $11.25 per million. Opens and downloads: $0.90 per million (until November 30: $7.65 and $0.612).
  3. No fixed fee: a month with usage costs at least $1.30 and a month without usage costs nothing. No charge per person and no fee for data transfer.

In Usage, each card shows its price per unit and what you've used so far, plus a projection for the whole month if your usage stays the same. A total below one cent is shown with all its decimals, never as $0.00.

How you're charged

  1. An owner or administrator adds a card in Billing, under Payment method. Your bank verifies it without any charge, and the card details go straight to Stripe, our payment processor: Kipuu never sees them.
  2. On the 1st of each month we close the month that ended and add it to your balance.
  3. We charge the card every month, on the 1st. A month with any usage costs at least $1.30 ($1 of service plus $0.30 of card fees); a month with no usage costs nothing. You can also pay at any time with Pay now.
  4. If a payment fails, we email the owners and administrators and try again on days 3, 7 and 14. After that, uploads pause until the card is updated. Downloads keep working, and we never delete your files for a failed payment.