Aggregator, consensus maps, daily digest, voting — all free. Plus and Pro unlock durable utility: unlimited bookmarks, full Trajectory history, unlimited Steel-Man requests, and ad-free reading.
Sign up with your email. No card required.
The aggregator is the brand promise — and the brand promise stays free.
or $48/year — save $24
For readers who use this 3+ times a week.
or $120/year — save $60
For prosumers and power users.
Programmatic access to consensus maps, signals, and topic feeds. CC-BY-4.0 license. See the API docs for endpoint reference and snippets, or test our API in Swagger UI before signing up.
For solo researchers and student/PhD work.
SiftingSignal/v1/* read endpointsFor newsrooms, labs, and commercial deployments.
/v1/searchVolume contracts, custom SLA, on-prem.
Academic researchers + accredited journalists: email [email protected] for a comp account (operator-issued, reason-logged).
See how others are using these tiers — five anonymized case studies across journalism, research, newsletters, communications, and information literacy. Or try the interactive demo.
Yes. The aggregator (The Sift), consensus maps, threads, Mirror, voting, and the daily digest are all free forever. Plus and Pro add durable-utility features for readers who use the platform heavily.
You keep Plus or Pro access until the end of the period you already paid for. Then your account drops back to Free — your bookmarks, lists, and history are preserved (we never delete your data on a tier-down, we just gate access).
30-day, no-questions-asked refund on Plus or Pro. Email [email protected] within 30 days of purchase and we'll process it via Stripe.
Click "Manage billing" on your billing page — it opens the Stripe Customer Portal where you can update payment method, download invoices, and change billing cycle.
Stripe handles all payment methods. At checkout you'll see Apple Pay and Google Pay where supported by your device, plus standard credit cards. Crypto is not enabled.
No. The aggregator is independent of who is paying or who isn't. Plus and Pro pay for durable-utility features, not for editorial preference. See our methodology.
Email [email protected] with a quick note. We hand-issue comp accounts case-by-case while a self-serve flow is being built.