IRCUpdate 9 Jan 2023: The new pricing is now active for all new subscriptions.
For the first time since we launched, we’re raising our prices. The new pricing will come into effect on Monday, January 9th 2023 and will be as follows:
Monthly (solo and team members)
| Old price | New price | |
|---|---|---|
| USD | $5.00 | $6.00 |
| GBP | £3.50 | £5.00 |
| EUR | €4.00 | €5.75 |
Yearly (solo)
| Old price | New price | |
|---|---|---|
| USD | $50.00 | $60.00 |
| GBP | £35.00 | £50.00 |
| EUR | €40.00 | €57.50 |
This will initially apply to new subscriptions only, but we may need to adjust existing subscriptions in the future. If you cancel and resubscribe after this change comes into effect, you’ll be charged at the new rates.
You can still subscribe to our yearly plan to get 12 months for the price of 10. And subscribing now will lock in the “old price” for 12 months. We’re not making any changes to the free plan.
Why?
We know there’s never a good time for a price increase, but prices everywhere have been going up, including our upstream providers, and we need to maintain a sustainable business. We hope you’ll understand why this is necessary for us to continue offering the service.
This is the first time we’ve raised our prices since starting IRCCloud in 2010. In fact, the new prices are less than half the cost of our earliest unlimited plans.
Updates
As well as adapting to a global pandemic, over the past few years we’ve been focusing on improving and maintaining our service stability following some difficult periods of downtime. A few highlights:
- May 2021 - Began sponsoring InspIRCd development, to help promote wider adoption of IRCv3.
- Sep 2021 - Completed a full migration of all our servers to a new ISP, which has greatly improved our availability. We’ve had no serious outages for over a year.
- Oct 2022 - Upgraded the irc.irccloud.com support server to the latest version of InspIRCd. This enables new features such as emoji reactions, replies, and typing indicators.
We’ve also continued to ship releases to our mobile apps to keep them up to date with all our features and the latest OS updates.
We appreciate all our customers who’ve supported us over the years, and we hope to continue to provide a valuable service for many more years to come.