The free scan is
the whole scanner.

Why gate the crawl instead of a few findings? Because by the time you have seen a single-page report, you have already seen everything that matters about that page — blurring a few low-priority findings on top of that just makes the free tier feel deliberately crippled. The crawl is real additional work (up to 10 more pages, plus the cross-page checks that only exist once more than one page has been seen), so that is the thing an email unlocks.

Do you store the sites I scan? The report itself, no: it is deleted the moment it reaches your browser, on every plan, and that has not changed. What an account keeps is the skeleton — a score, the category scores and the ids of the checks that failed — which is enough to tell you what changed since last time and not enough to rebuild the report. Keeping a full copy and sharing one are both things you switch on yourself. The privacy page lists every table and what is in it.

Can I scan a site I do not own? Only with the owner’s permission. Running a scan confirms that you own the site or are authorised to test it (see the terms). The scanner requests pages the way a browser would and stays inside a fixed page and time budget, but in some places testing somebody else’s systems without permission is unlawful however politely it is done.

What happens when I hit the rate limit? You wait. Five scans an hour is enough to check a site, ship a fix, and check it again.

Why is there no self-serve signup for the paid plans? There used to be a plan to add one. It is not happening: the product is sold to a small number of dedicated clients, onboarded by hand and invoiced outside the product, and a checkout would be built for a business this is not trying to be.