Five dollars. One page. Paid once.

You only pay for the ones that matter…

Most documents never need any of this. Send them, watch the dashboard, let them expire when they have done their job. That part is free, and it stays free however many you send.

Then there is the one that matters. The proposal your client is still opening on the day it expires. The deck with the wrong number on slide four. The document that should only ever reach three named people. You will know the one when you get there — and that is when five dollars is an easy decision.

…until every one of them matters

Five dollars stops being about the money somewhere around the fourth or fifth page. What it costs by then is the decision: is this one worth it, was that one, should I have done the one last week. You end up not buying it for a page that needed it, and finding out afterwards.

The monthly plan is for that. Every page you publish gets everything on this list, and there is nothing to weigh up each time you send one. Unlimited within fair use — the limits are set where ordinary work never meets them.

The price is per person. If a plan turns out to be shared, we charge for each person on it — so if there are a few of you, tell us and we will work something out rather than guess.

Cancel whenever you like — pages you have already published keep their ninety days.

Showing someone the numbers

The link to your dashboard is your key to the page. Whoever holds it can delete it, replace the file, and move the recovery address to themselves — so until now, showing a colleague how a document was doing meant handing them all of that.

Pro adds a second link to the same dashboard that shows everything and changes nothing. No adding tags, no replacing the file, no deleting the page, and no sight of the private links you sent to individual people. Replace it or switch it off whenever you like.

What a pasted link shows

Slack, Teams, LinkedIn and the rest fetch a link the moment somebody pastes it, to draw a preview card. Every Vela Drop link unfurls with the page's title, on every plan, free included.

Pro lets you write the card yourself — your own title, a line under it, an image. And it lets you turn the card off, which is the part worth paying for: a workspace that never fetches your document never keeps a copy of what it scraped. For a term sheet dropped into a channel of forty people, that is the difference between a link and a leak.

Your file is not touched either way. The card is a separate reply we send to the chat client, which was never going to render your page.

About the cookies

Nothing in Vela Drop is counted with a cookie, on any plan. Visitor numbers come from a hash that changes every day, which is why they are described as approximate. Two features can set one, both of them off until you switch them on, and neither of them on the free plan.

Restricting a page to named addresses sets one when a reader proves who they are, so that proving it once does not mean proving it on every click. It lasts until the reader has been away for a week — or a day, a month or a year, as you choose — and never more than a year. It lives on that page's own address and counts nothing at all.

Telling a returning reader from a new one is the other, and it is the one that removes the tilde from your numbers. It holds a random identifier and nothing derived from the reader — no address, no fingerprint — it lives only on that page's own address, so it cannot follow anyone to another document, not even another Vela Drop page, and it is deleted with the page.

If you switch that one on, you are the one setting it, on the document you published. Where the law requires that readers are told or asked — in the EU and UK it generally does — that responsibility is yours, not ours. We say so plainly at the moment you enable it, and our privacy page spells out the whole arrangement.

Your HTML is untouched either way. These are headers on the response, not a change to your file.