Pricing
What stays free, what costs money
The standard is free and stays free – for everyone, forever. You pay for time saved, never for looking good. So that this is verifiable, the prices are published here.
Always free
The specification, validator, card renderer and scanner as open source (MIT and CC BY 4.0 respectively). The generator for your declaration. Inclusion in the register. Your profile and your raw data. The badge.
Being listed in the register never costs anything. Otherwise only paying organisations would declare – and a register you have to buy your way into is worthless.
Available today
Do it yourself – accompanied, if you wish
This project is run by one person. That is why there are no appointments, no training days and no consulting mandates – but tools that do their work on their own, and answers to inquiries. Everything you need to declare yourself costs nothing.
| Service | Price | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Create your declaration yourself Generator with templates, a catalogue of common services, checks against the Swiss third-country rules, and installation instructions. No sign-up. Currently in German. | 0 | NOW |
| Partner package for fiduciaries and agencies A documented process for client mandates, templates, text modules. Downloadable, no appointment, no contract. | 0 | IN PROGRESS |
| Written feedback on your declaration You send the file, we reply in writing with comments – asynchronous, no meeting. Not an audit and not a seal: the third level of trust is provided by independent third parties. | on request | NOW |
| Pilot company – the first ten We map your data flows together and take your declaration live. About one hour. In return we ask for honest feedback on the format. | 0 | NOW |
In preparation
Monitoring subscription
The scanner checks every website in the register weekly – including yours, free of charge. What the subscription adds is not more frequent measuring but knowing without looking: an e-mail when reality drifts away from your declaration, and a history showing since when. Compliance is not a state, it is a continuous run.
We deliberately do not throttle the free tier. A standard that is meant to spread must not artificially ration its own measuring – you pay for attention and overview, not for us otherwise looking away on purpose.
All subscriptions are cancellable at any time, self-service and without giving reasons; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing month.
| Tier | Price / month | Included | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | 1 domain, weekly scan, public profile, badge – check for yourself | NOW |
| Basic | 29 | Deviation alert by e-mail, history over time, up to 3 domains | IN PROGRESS |
| Fiduciary | 190 | Alerts and history for up to 25 client mandates, cockpit, consolidated reports | IN PROGRESS |
| Enterprise | from 990 | Many domains, daily scan, API access, contractual assurances | IN PROGRESS |
Interested? A short message to kontakt@datenfluss-standard.ch is enough – we will get in touch as soon as it is ready. No account, no prepayment.
In preparation
Register access for software
Looking up individual profiles is and remains free, with no metering: the raw file sits openly next to every profile page, and downloading all 120 is unrestricted today. The tiers below concern only a future query API with search, filters and history – not access to the data itself. If all you want is the files, you will never need them.
| Tier | Queries / month | Price / month | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | up to 1,000 | 0 | IN PROGRESS |
| Tool | up to 100,000 | 190 | IN PROGRESS |
| Platform | above that | from 990 | IN PROGRESS |
Later
Verification by third parties
The third level of trust is audited by independent professionals, not by this register. We train, and we publish the audit requirements openly and versioned; accreditation is to pass to a neutral body once one exists – whoever trains the auditors must not permanently decide who may audit. Prices scale with the size of the organisation, so a micro-business does not pay the same as a corporation.
Red lines
What we will never sell
- No fee for inclusion in the register.A register you have to buy your way into does not reflect reality.
- No paid grades, rankings or highlights.The register does not rate. A purchased position would destroy exactly the trust we offer.
- No licence fee on the format.The standard belongs to no one. Any person and any company may implement it without asking and without paying.
- No sale of individual organisations' data.Analyses are aggregated by sector only. Whoever offers transparency does not trade in the transparent.
- No exclusive contract with any platform.Vendor neutrality is the reason we can be believed.
- The public profile is identical for customers and non-customers.Payment buys alerts, history and overview – never better measurements, faster corrections or a more favourable presentation. The measurement pipeline does not know who pays.
We are looking for ten pilot companies
One hour of your time, free of charge, revocable at any time. You receive a complete declaration that passes the validator, plus the public card and the badge – and you know in black and white what is actually embedded on your website.
In return we ask for honest feedback on the format and, only if you like, permission to name you as a reference.