Where the money goes

Aurora is built by one person, independently. It costs real money to run, and it isn’t trying to get big. Here’s exactly how paying for it works, and where the money goes, in plain terms.

You can run it yourself, free.

If you have your own AI account, you can use Aurora in your browser at no charge from us — you pay your provider directly for the reading, and nothing comes to us. See the sample →

If the paid version is out of reach, you pay less — and you don’t prove anything.

When we run an analysis for you, there’s a flat fee. If that fee is a real hardship, there’s a lower price you choose yourself. We don’t ask for pay stubs or bank statements — being made to prove you’re broke is its own kind of harm, and we won’t do it. That lower price is covered by people who chose to pay more, and by the work we do for attorneys and firms. It’s a discount we fund ourselves. It is not a donation, and you owe no one an explanation for choosing it.

Five cents of every dollar goes to survivors’ organizations.

Separately from everything above, we give 5% of every dollar Aurora takes in — as cash — to organizations that support survivors of domestic abuse. Once a year we publish what we gave: the dollar amount, and the names of who received it. This money leaves Aurora and does not come back. We never donate to a group and then ask them to buy Aurora — that loop is exactly the thing this pledge exists to avoid.

That’s the whole picture. If something here doesn’t add up for you, write to us →