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Plans for you, your family, and your team. Try any plan free for 7 days.

Business is one flat price for a team of up to 5, not a price per person, so a small team never has to count seats. After that it is $8 a month for each extra person. There is no free plan: every account has a verified email, phone, and card, which keeps throwaway accounts from using Squawk Secret to send harmful links.

Individual

$9per month

$90per year

2 months free: save $18 a year

For consultants and solo IT pros.

  • Unlimited one-time squawks and file sends
  • Attachments up to 25 MB per send (10 files)
  • Requests to collect passwords and files from clients
  • Email the link from the app, with a read receipt
  • Audit trail of every view attempt
  • Two-step verification with an authenticator app
  • Screenshot and copy deterrents with a viewer watermark
  • Lock squawks to specific people or networks
  • Don’t open until: send now, and the link opens at the time you choose
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Family

$19per month

$190per year

2 months free: save $38 a year

Up to 5 accounts.

For households sharing passwords safely.

  • Up to 5 accounts, each with its own sign-in
  • Everything in Individual, for each person
  • Invite and remove family members yourself
  • One simple monthly price
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Best for teams

Business

$49per month

$490per year

2 months free: save $98 a year

For a 5-person team, that's under $10 each per month to keep client passwords out of email.

Up to 5 users included. $8 per month for each additional user.

Up to 5 users included. $80 per year for each additional user.

For IT teams, MSPs, and professional firms.

  • Everything in Individual, for each person
  • Your team: roles, instant sign-out on removal, required two-step, and security policies
  • Sign in with Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, or Okta
  • Squawk Guard: stops passwords, card numbers, and SSNs before they’re emailed, and warns in Teams
  • Squawk Back: confirm who’s calling before a reset, or prove it’s really IT
  • Two-person secrets: require a teammate’s approval, or two people to open it together
  • Certified delivery: a signed Certificate of Delivery with file fingerprints, like certified mail
  • Compliance evidence packs: FTC Safeguards, IRS 4557, NYDFS, ABA 1.6(c), PCI DSS, CMMC, and more
  • Outlook add-in and Microsoft Teams app, installed together in one step
  • A Squawk Drop page where clients send you passwords and files anytime
  • Squawk Keeper (beta, on request): a password keeper for logins, cards, API keys and notes, with authenticator codes, shared folders, a browser extension for Edge, and import from LastPass and others
  • Squawk Vault: 100 MB of long-term encrypted storage for each person
  • Squawk Links: QR codes and short links with scan and click counts
  • Secure chats, intake forms with typed signatures, and fillable PDFs like the W-9
  • Your logo, and your own domain for client links
  • API, webhooks, and SIEM integration with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, and more
  • Audit exports and Windows desktop notifications
  • One invoice for the whole team
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Card required for the 7-day trial. Cancel anytime before it ends and you won't be charged; trials have small daily limits, file attachments turn on with your paid plan.

A Healthcare plan is coming: HIPAA-ready, with a Business Associate Agreement, for medical, dental, and therapy practices. Learn more

Questions

Do the people I send to need an account?
No. Recipients open the link in any browser. Only the sender needs a plan.
Can we send first-time passwords automatically?
Yes, on the Business plan. Your onboarding system (an Active Directory script, Power Automate, Okta Workflows, Zapier, or your HR system) calls the Squawk Secret API when it creates an account. We can generate the password, email the new hire a one-time link, and notify your system when it's opened. The API reference and ready-to-use examples are on the API page, linked at the top of this site.
What is the Family plan?
Family is $19 per month for up to 5 accounts. The person who signs up invites the others, and each person gets their own private account: family members can't see each other's squawks. It doesn't include Business features like admin roles, single sign-on, the API, or team policies.
How does Business pricing work?
Business is $49 per month and includes up to 5 users. Each additional user is $8 per month, so a team of 8 is $73 per month. Add or remove seats anytime from Billing.
Can I cancel?
Yes, anytime, from the billing portal. No contracts.
What happens to links I already sent if I cancel?
They keep working for recipients until they expire or are used up. You just can't create new ones.
What if a payment fails?
Your account keeps working while Stripe retries the charge. Update your card from Billing.
Why do you need a card for the free trial?
It keeps Squawk Secret from being used by throwaway accounts to send harmful content. You won't be charged until the trial ends, and you can cancel anytime before then.
Are there limits during the free trial?
Yes. To keep Squawk Secret from being misused by throwaway accounts, trials can create a limited number of squawks and requests per day, and file attachments are turned on when your paid plan starts. You can start your paid plan early from Billing at any time. Each card can be used for one free trial.
Why do you verify my phone number?
Along with your email and card, a verified mobile number confirms a real person is behind every account. We only text you for verification.
Is it available outside the United States?
Not at this time. Squawk Secret accounts are available only to individuals and businesses in the United States, with a US address, US mobile number, and US payment card. The people you send to can open your links from anywhere.
How do you take payment?
Payments are processed by Stripe, by card or by US bank account (ACH), verified instantly through your bank. We never see or store your card or bank account numbers.
Can I pay yearly?
Yes. Choose yearly billing when you sign up, or switch anytime from Billing, and get two months free. Switching from monthly charges the yearly price, minus a credit for the unused part of your month.
Is it end-to-end encrypted?
Yes. Squawks you create, requests and their responses, Squawk Drop items, and secure chats are all encrypted in the browser, so we can't read them. A few things work differently: if you have us email a squawk link for you, or post it with the Teams app, the link passes through our systems on its way (add a passphrase shared separately to stay end-to-end), and squawks created through the API are encrypted on our servers. The Security page has the details.
Are there limits?
No limit on how many squawks you send. Each send can carry up to 10 files and 25 MB, be opened up to 100 times, and last up to 30 days. A request for one client stays open up to 30 days; a reusable form, up to a year. A Business account can have up to 10 Squawk Drops, and each accepts up to 2 GB per submission. Each person on a Business account gets 100 MB in Squawk Vault. Secure chats last up to 7 days with files of up to 100 MB each.
Is Squawk Keeper included?
Squawk Keeper, our password keeper, is in beta. It is part of the Business plan at no extra charge during the beta, and we turn it on by request: write to support@squawksecret.com. It keeps logins, cards, API keys, and notes with authenticator codes and shared folders, and has an extension for Microsoft Edge. Beta features can change before general release.
What are secure chats?
A Business feature for back-and-forth with clients: a short-lived, end-to-end encrypted conversation with messages, masked credentials, and files. Invite up to 10 guests by email (they don't need an account), add teammates as co-hosts, and choose when it erases itself, from 1 hour to 7 days. Closing it erases everything for everyone.
Is it a good fit for accounting and tax firms?
Yes. Firms use a Squawk Drop page for client tax documents, intake forms and organizers, the official W-9, W-4, and I-9 as fillable PDFs, and encrypted chats for client questions, with required two-step verification and an audit trail. The For accounting firms page, linked in the site menu, explains how it fits the FTC Safeguards Rule’s expectations.
Is it a good fit for law firms?
Yes. Firms use it for secure client intake, fillable PDFs, a drop page for client documents, and encrypted chats. The For law firms page, linked in the site menu, explains how it fits confidentiality and records practices.
Is there a limit on emailed links?
Yes. Squawk Secret can email links for you (squawks and requests, from the app or the API) up to 300 per account in any 24 hours. That covers the whole account: on Family and Business, everyone's emailed links count together. It doesn't limit how many squawks you create or how many links you copy and share yourself, and emails we send you, like verification codes and sign-in alerts, don't count. The limit protects everyone's email delivery; if you need more, contact us.
Can I sign up with an onmicrosoft.com or temporary email address?
No. Microsoft 365 default addresses (ending in onmicrosoft.com, including the government and regional versions) and temporary email services can't be used to create an account, accept a team invite, or join with single sign-on. Use an address on your own or your organization's domain, or a regular personal address such as Gmail or Outlook.com. Existing accounts aren't affected.

Anything else? support@squawksecret.com