Trying BrandPresence should begin with one question: does this give your team useful evidence about how AI systems see your brand? It should not begin with a payment form.
That is why the seven-day trials for Starter Monthly and Growth Monthly now start without a card or other payment details. Choose an eligible monthly plan, start the trial, and BrandPresence begins building a bounded AI visibility baseline for your workspace.
If the evidence is useful and you want to continue, add a payment method before the trial ends. If you do not, Paddle automatically cancels the subscription. There is no card to charge and no subscription quietly rolling into a paid plan.
What changed
Previously, starting a monthly BrandPresence trial meant completing Paddle Checkout and saving a payment method first. The trial was free, but the first step still felt like a purchase decision.
The new flow uses Paddle's cardless trial support. Starter and Growth monthly trials can now begin directly from BrandPresence without opening a payment checkout or asking for billing details upfront.
The trial length and product scope have not changed. What changed is the order of the decision: first inspect your baseline, then decide whether ongoing monitoring is worth paying for.
What the seven-day trial includes
The trial is designed to answer a practical question: where does your brand appear, disappear, or lose ground when AI systems answer the buying questions that matter?
Each eligible workspace receives one bounded baseline with up to:
- one technical scan covering 100 pages
- five high-intent buyer questions
- 15 AI answer samples across the configured providers
- one successful Google Search Console import
- one successful Google Analytics 4 import
- one successful Bing Webmaster Tools import
- one successful Cloudflare crawler snapshot
This is enough to inspect the core BrandPresence workflow: AI answers, mentions, observed competitors, citations, source patterns, technical findings, and evidence-linked recommendations.
The trial is deliberately not an unlimited monitoring plan. Reruns, recurring schedules, repeated imports, IndexNow submissions, new MCP connections, and other ongoing workloads remain locked until the subscription becomes active.
How the cardless trial works
Starting and continuing the trial are separate decisions:
- Choose Starter Monthly or Growth Monthly in BrandPresence.
- Select Start 7-day free trial. No card or payment details are required.
- Use the included baseline to inspect your AI visibility evidence.
- If you want ongoing access, select Add payment method in Account → Billing & plan before the trial ends.
- Paddle charges the selected monthly price when the trial ends, provided the payment succeeds.
- If no payment method is added, Paddle automatically cancels the subscription at the end of day seven.
Annual plans still use the normal paid checkout and do not include a trial. Trial eligibility is determined by BrandPresence and is limited to one trial baseline for an eligible organization and domain.
No hidden renewal decision
Cardless does not mean the renewal terms disappear. It means you can evaluate the product before providing payment details.
During the trial, Account → Billing & plan shows the trial end date, the monthly price that applies if you continue, and a clear Add payment method action. Adding a payment method is the explicit signal that you want the selected monthly subscription to continue after the trial.
If you do nothing, access to the trial baseline remains readable according to the product's retention rules, but the subscription does not become an active paid plan. Paddle cancels it automatically.
Start with evidence, then decide
AI visibility is too variable for a useful product decision to rest on a polished demo or one cherry-picked screenshot. You need to see your questions, your site, the observed answers, and the source trail together.
The cardless trial makes that evaluation simpler. Start with a bounded baseline, inspect what the evidence reveals, and add payment details only if BrandPresence deserves a place in your ongoing workflow.
Start your seven-day trial or compare Starter and Growth plans.