Plans
What costs money
Two plans, and the line between them is capacity. Everything that decides how your page looks — every effect, every font, every layout, the background, the cursor — is on the free one and stays there.
That is not generosity. A site where the good-looking pages are the paid ones has a gallery that is an advertisement, and everyone can tell.
| Allowance | Freenothing | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Storage | 2 GB | 5 GB |
| Largest file | 25 MB | 200 MB |
| Largest clipVideo costs more to take in than a picture does, so it has its own ceiling. | 100 MB | 500 MB |
| Short links | 25 | 500 |
| Pastes | 50 | 1000 |
| API keys | 3 | 8 |
| Webhooks | 1 | 5 |
| Emoji addressThere are not many good short ones, which is the whole reason it is worth something. | not included | included |
| Your own domain | not included | included |
| Extra pages | 2 | 4 |
There is nothing to buy yet. Premium is not switched on, so every account is on the free plan and nothing about that is going to surprise anybody later.
Never behind a wall
The view counter, where those views came from, the public explanation of how they are counted, and the refusal to show anybody a visitor’s address. The entire argument of velt is that its numbers can be trusted, and a trustworthy number that costs money is a marketing claim.
The verification mark is not for sale either, for the same reason. The competitor this is measured against sells theirs, which is exactly why nobody believes it.
Already here
Everybody who joined while velt was invite-only has every feature there is, and every one added afterwards, permanently and at no cost. That promise is in the terms. It is worth more the more the rest of this industry paywalls, so it is not going to be quietly eroded.