Is It Really Free? Yes. No Catch.
No credit card. No trial period. No bait-and-switch. The full SitDeck dashboard with every widget, every data feed, and Cinema Mode — yours forever, at zero cost.
The Philosophy
SitDeck aggregates data from publicly available, free sources — earthquake monitors, conflict trackers, flight data, ship positions, financial markets, weather stations, nuclear sensors, and hundreds more. That data is free. We didn't create it. We don't own it.
We believe it would be wrong to charge people money to look at information that's already free. So we don't.
What's Free Forever
- Full interactive dashboard
- All 55+ drag-and-drop widgets
- All 180+ live data providers
- Interactive map with all 65+ layers
- Cinema Mode (live 3D globe)
- Daily Intelligence Briefing
- AI Analyst Chat (5 messages/month — Claude Haiku 4.5 & GPT-5 Mini)
- 3 custom alerts with daily checks
- Unlimited saved decks
- Jump (navigate to any location)
- Annotate (draw, measure, mark up the map)
- 12 base map styles
What Costs Money (and Why)
We only charge for features that are genuinely expensive to run:
- More AI Analyst messages — LLM inference is expensive
- Advanced AI models (Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.6, GPT-5.4) — premium model access fees
- Search & Locate (find flights, ships, bases, POIs) — real-time data queries
- Track (monitor objects, entry/exit alerts) — continuous polling infrastructure
- Area Reports (AI intelligence on any region) — compute-heavy geospatial analysis
- Area Monitoring (watch zones for changes) — persistent monitoring infrastructure
- Situation Reports — AI-generated, compute-heavy
- More custom alerts & real-time checks — monitoring costs scale with volume
- Webhook alert delivery — dedicated delivery infrastructure
- Data export (CSV) — server-side processing
- Premium Themes — design and maintenance costs
- Priority support — dedicated human time
The Sustainability Model
Advanced users who need more AI power, real-time alerting, and automated reports pay for those features. Their subscriptions cover the operating costs so the platform can remain free for everyone — hobbyists, researchers, journalists, students, and analysts regardless of budget.
Privacy & Trust
We never sell your information. We never will. You've heard "if it's free, you're the product" — that's not what's happening here. SitDeck makes money from paid subscriptions, not from your data. No ads, no behavioral profiling, no data broker partnerships. We track what we need to run the service — authentication, basic analytics, and your preferences. Your intelligence workspace is yours.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is SitDeck really free?
- Yes. The Hobbyist plan is free forever — no credit card, no trial period, no bait-and-switch. Full dashboard, all widgets, all data providers, Cinema Mode, and daily intelligence briefing included.
- What's the catch?
- There isn't one. If the data is free and publicly available, we don't charge you to see it. We only charge for features that cost us real money to operate.
- Do you sell user data?
- No. We will never sell, share, or monetize your personal information. We collect the minimum data needed to run the service and nothing more.
- How does SitDeck make money?
- Power users who need more AI messages, real-time alerts, and situation reports pay for premium plans. Their subscriptions fund the platform for everyone.