#💰 Pricing & Expectations

#🎁 Our Offerings

• Free browser with ads (generates about $5/user/year in ad revenue)
• 💎 Membership Plans (For the Best Experience):
  • Basic: $5.99/month
  • Pro: $25.99/month
  • Ultimate: $199.99/month (coming soon)
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• 🛍️ One-Time Purchase:
  • Get our true zero-tracking browser for just $1.99.
  • Access most features (excluding AI capabilities).
  • This is a limited-time offer that will increase to $9.99—the average yearly revenue other browsers generate per user.
• 🏢 Enterprise Solutions
• 💖 Donations

#💸 How traditional browsers monetize

Most "free" browsers make money through:

• 📊 Data sales: Selling your browsing data to advertisers
• 🤝 Strategic partnerships: Distribution deals and revenue sharing with search engines
• 💰 Affiliate programs: Earning commissions from promoted services

In reality, very few browsers are truly free—development and maintenance require significant resources. These monetization models primarily serve companies and advertisers, not users.

#🌱 Sustainable business model & pragmatic approach

We believe in direct, honest monetization that aligns our interests with yours — building a profitable, user-first browser without selling your data.

• No data selling: Your privacy is never compromised.
• User-first decisions: We work for users, not advertisers.
• Sustainable growth: Steady, profitable growth that supports long-term development.
• 🧑‍💻 Expert Team: A small, dedicated group of industry specialists.
• ⚙️ Operational Efficiency: Minimal bureaucracy, maximum focus.
• 🎯 Strategic Feature Selection: Targeted development that enhances performance.

#❌ Features We Don't Support (For Now)

• Developer Tools
  • We currently don’t offer developer tools (flags, debugging), as they add complexity, increase memory and battery usage, and can introduce instability. Our focus is on delivering a fast, reliable browser for everyday use.
  • If your business requires special browser features, feel free to contact us to discuss enterprise solutions.

We respect both major browser vendors and open-source projects while confidently charting our own path.

#🎯 Prudent feature expansion

We expand features carefully to ensure everything remains manageable and profitable to maintain:

• 🔍 Strategic selection: Only add features that provide clear value to subscribers
• ⭐ Quality over quantity: Better to do fewer things excellently than many things poorly
• 🔧 Maintenance-first thinking: Every new feature must have a sustainable support plan
• 👥 Resource allocation: Small, expert team focused on high-impact improvements
• ⚡ Performance priority: New features shouldn't compromise browser speed or stability

This disciplined approach keeps HuBrowser lean, fast, and sustainable long-term.

#⚠️ When incentives misalign: Arc browser's lesson

Arc browser illustrates what happens when growth expectations clash with user value:

• ✨ Initial promise: Launched with innovative features and slick design, quickly gained devoted users
• 🔄 The pivot: When growth didn't meet investor expectations, The Browser Company announced they're shifting focus away from Arc to pursue AI and other opportunities
• 😕 User impact: Early adopters who invested time customizing and learning Arc were left uncertain about the product's future
• 📚 The lesson: When short-term growth metrics drive decisions, long-term user value can take a back seat

Why this matters: The issue isn't funding itself—it's whether incentives align with creating lasting user value. When pressure for explosive growth overshadows product excellence, users pay the price.

#🤝 Our commitment to long-term value

HuBrowser is built with aligned incentives and realistic timelines:

• 🎯 User-first funding: Whether bootstrapped or funded, our north star is user value, not vanity metrics
• 📈 Sustainable growth: We aim for steady, profitable growth that supports long-term development
• ⏳ Patient capital: Any future funding will come from partners who share our 5-10 year vision
• 👨‍💻 Expert team: Small, focused, industry-proven developers who know how to compete efficiently
• 🏗️ Product longevity: We're building a lasting browser users can depend on, with economics that support that mission