Why don't you offer a “lifetime” plan?

You might have seen other services offer “lifetime deals,” which can seem very attractive. However, we've made a conscious decision not to offer them because we believe they are an unsustainable and often misleading business practice.

Running a service like aero.zip involves continuous costs, including server hosting, bandwidth, maintenance, and ongoing development. A one-time payment simply cannot cover these recurring expenses indefinitely.

Services that offer lifetime plans often face a difficult choice down the road:

• They might shut down completely, leaving customers with nothing.
• They might degrade the quality of the service to cut costs.
• They might engage in a “bait-and-switch” by introducing new, essential features that are not included in the original “lifetime” plan, forcing users to pay again.

In either case, customers end up losing out. We want to avoid these pitfalls by adopting a subscription model that ensures the long-term viability of our service.