Pricing
Free on your own machine, permanently
Not free as a trial, and not free until the interesting part. Detection and repair are both free forever on a machine you own, and the reason is worth more than the price.
Only the free tier exists
Pro and Team describe where this goes if it becomes a product. They are not for sale, there is no payment page behind them, and the features listed under them are not built. They are here to show the shape, not to take your money.
A pricing page implying capabilities the software does not have would undercut the one thing Warden is actually selling.
Free
Everything Warden does today, on a machine you own.
- All 13 areas watched continuously
- All 17 fixes, each with evidence and your approval
- Local AI model included, works offline
- Verification after every fix, including when it failed
- Tune-up: 9 settings checks, with undo
- Session history you can reopen
- Open source, no account, no telemetry
Pro
Not builtFor the person everyone in the family calls.
- Everything in Free, on up to 5 machines
- Scheduled audits with a weekly summary
- Export a session as a report to hand someone
- A larger local model on machines that can run one
- Restore points kept and labelled per change
Team
Not builtFor an IT desk that would rather not walk to every desk.
- Everything in Pro
- Fleet view across managed machines
- Policy: which actions may be approved, and by whom
- Audit trail export, because the evidence already exists
- Deployment through your existing tooling
- Priority on issue reports
Why finding problems will never cost money
The standard model in this category is detect for free and charge to fix. It sounds reasonable and it is the root of everything wrong with the category, because it pays a company to find problems. Once finding a problem is worth money, a scan that returns nothing is a failed sale, and the software learns to return something.
That is how “4,182 issues detected” happens. Nobody set out to build a scam; they built an incentive and followed it.
Warden cannot take that route without becoming the thing it was built against, so it does not. Detection and repair are both free on a machine you own, and that is a structural commitment rather than a launch promotion.
What is worth charging for
Not permission to fix your own computer. Managing machines that are not yours.
A person fixing their own laptop is not a customer. A person responsible for thirty laptops has a different problem: they need to know which machines need attention without visiting them, and they need a record of what was changed and why.
Warden already writes that record. Every reading, every decision, every approval and every verified outcome goes to a session file, because the product needed it to be honest. Turning that into a fleet view and an exportable audit trail is a product, and it is one nobody has to be misled to buy.
The arithmetic
Shown rather than asserted, because a business model with no numbers is a wish.
The model runs on their processor. No inference bill, no storage, no account. A free user costs bandwidth for one download.
Typical Indian on-site rate for a business machine, most of which is travel and diagnosis rather than the fix.
At ₹199 per machine per month, a 30-machine desk pays ₹71,640 a year. Three callouts a month at ₹2,000 is ₹72,000.
There is no per-user compute. Cost is engineering, code signing, and support. That is the upside of refusing to put the model in a datacentre.
The callout figure is a typical Indian on-site rate and worth checking against your own market. Everything else follows from Warden running the model on the user’s own processor, which means a free user costs one download and nothing after that.