The Free Plan
What Sporeline's Free plan includes, what counts as a unit, and what happens at 100 a month.
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The Free plan costs nothing and needs no card. It is the same Sporeline every paid farm uses: every feature and every integration, with a limit on how many new units you start each month and on how many people can sign in.
What Free includes
- 100 units a month. Up to 100 new blocks, spawn bags and lab items started each calendar month.
- No cap on what is active. Blocks and lab items you already have keep going however many there are. Only starting new ones counts.
- 2 users. The owner and one more person.
- 500 MB of photos and files. See Photos and Files for the size of each file and the storage on other plans.
- Every feature. Lots, labels, scanning, recipes, harvests, orders, traceability and recall, QuickBooks, Shopify, sensors, the API and Farmhand.
- Your data stays yours. Nothing is locked or deleted if you stay on Free.
- Community support. Email us and we answer when we can.
What counts as a unit
A unit is one thing you start tracking:
| You do this | Units it counts |
|---|---|
| Make a batch of 20 blocks | 20 |
| Make a lot of 50 bags, even if no single bag gets its own label | 50 |
| Register one block into a batch | 1 |
| Start a culture, an agar plate or a liquid culture | 1 each |
| Import blocks, lots or lab items from a spreadsheet | One per unit imported |
These do not count: moving blocks, recording harvests, printing labels, discarding or completing a block, returning shipped units to a lot, adjusting a lot after a count, reopening an archived culture or plate, and extraction lots.
The count is per calendar month in UTC and starts again at 0 on the 1st.
Your first 30 days
For the first 30 days after you create your farm there is no monthly limit. Instead you get the room of the Solo plan: up to 250 active blocks and 500 active lab items. That is enough to import what you already have and run your first production days without counting.
On day 31 the 100-a-month limit starts. Settings > Billing shows the date it starts.
What happens at 100
When a new batch, lot or lab item would take you past 100 for the month, Sporeline says so and does not create it. The message tells you how many you have started and how many the request would add.
Everything else keeps working: moving blocks, harvests, labels, orders, reports, scanning and your history. On the 1st of the next month you can start new units again.
To see where you stand, open Settings > Billing. The Units this month bar shows how many of your 100 you have used. It turns amber at 80% and red at 95%.
Two users
Free farms can have 2 users. Inviting a third person asks you to move to Solo (3 users) or Team (no user limit).
Moving to a paid plan
Open Settings > Billing and pick a plan:
- Solo, $50 a month: 250 active blocks, 500 active lab items, 3 users, and no monthly limit. Solo is billed from the day you subscribe.
- Team and Commercial are upgrades from Settings > Billing; the checkout page shows the charge before you confirm.
Your data, settings and history carry over as they are. If a paid subscription ends, the farm goes back to Free.