This site is free

Everything on Hestia's Atlas is free: the map, the county rankings, your character, the quests, the Treasury, the Marketplace ledger and the forums. There are no tiers and no ads. The site exists to help people plan a move, not to earn from them.

An account is free too. It carries your character between devices and lets you post on the forums. It never gates a price.

Some tools here can read a document for you: a photographed receipt becomes expense rows, a card statement becomes a ledger, a photo of an item becomes listing text. Each of those sends your file to an outside AI service, and that service charges us for every read. Those reads are the only part of this site whose cost grows with use.

Today the site simply pays that cost, and sensible per-player limits keep it small. If that ever has to change, the change will be said plainly, here and in the patch notes, before it happens. Every one of these tools also has a free path that always works: type the expense yourself, import a CSV, or write the listing in your own words.

The whole site can be used entirely free, with no adverts, today and for as long as it is online. The simple economics that make that promise keepable are explained below.

This site handles your income, your savings and your plans, and its one job is to be on your side. An ad is a stranger's message with a claim on your attention, placed beside numbers you are trying to trust. The two do not belong in the same room.

The economics are simple and intended to stay that way. The automated tools are tuned to break even rather than to earn, and nothing here optimizes for maximum profit, now or ever. There are no big investors to answer to and no debt demanding a monthly return. This is a long-term project, not a short-sighted profit venture, and that is the whole reason there are no ads and your data is never sold.

The numbers here exist to help you keep more of your money. None of them exist to route any of it to us.