Pricing
Simple, transparent pricing
Free to start, and free to stay. Upgrade when you want the production portals, a HutterMart store and colony email.
Every colony gets two months of full access, free — no credit card.
Memberships
Three memberships
One rate per audience. Suppliers and service providers are the same tier, inside a network of 574.
Colony Membership
Every portal, every feature, for the whole colony. Starts after your two-month free trial.
$249
/month CAD
- ✓Everything in the free tier, plus:
- ✓Unlimited HutterMart listings — sell, not just browse
- ✓Colony email @thehutter.com — up to 4 addresses
- ✓Livestock portal
- ✓Crop portal
- ✓Fuel ordering portal
- ✓Group purchase portal
- ✓Kitchen management portal
- ✓Contract buy portal
- ✓Manufacturing showcase
- ✓Priority directory placement
- ✓Featured placement in HutterMart
- ✓Analytics dashboard
Registration is free. Subscribing happens inside your portal.
Independent Farm
The colony feature set, sized for a single independent farm.
$149
/month CAD
- ✓Production portals for a single farm operation
- ✓HutterMart store — sell as an independent farm
- ✓Group purchasing and fuel ordering alongside colonies
- ✓Directory listing and public profile page
Independent farm accounts do not exist on this platform yet — INDEPENDENT_FARM is priced in the catalogue but has no account model, no session and no webhook fulfilment. The price is configured and verified at boot; the payer is the missing half.
Farm accounts open with an invitation code from a colony — there is no public signup link.
Vendor & Supplier
One rate for suppliers, service providers and trade services — the same tier, not three ladders.
$85
/month CAD
- ✓Directory listing with logo and contact details
- ✓All categories — supplier, service provider or trade service
- ✓Product and service listings
- ✓Broadcasts to colonies on the platform
- ✓Featured badge and priority placement
- ✓Analytics and support
Registration is free. Subscribing happens inside your portal.
Prices shown in CAD, billed monthly. US accounts are billed in USD at the ruled rate, chosen from your registered country — never from your browser.
Free tier
Every colony starts free, and can stay free
A colony is never locked out of the community for not paying. The free tier is a downgrade of business tools only.
Included, free, forever
- ✓Colony directory listing, with all members
- ✓Public profile page
- ✓Colony Connect — the social layer
- ✓Hutter Board of Education
- ✓Hutter Health Center
- ✓SOS utility
- ✓HutterMart — browse and buy
- ✓Manager dashboard, limited — add and manage your users
Needs a paid membership
- ✕Production portals
- ✕HutterMart store — selling
- ✕Colony email @thehutter.com
Pay as you use
Metered add-ons
Bought per unit, not per month. Available to any account, on any membership.
GS1 Barcode Registration
$49
per year
- ✓Includes 100 product codes
- ✓Barcodes retailers and distributors will accept
- ✓Renewed yearly, by you — never billed again without being asked
Add-on fulfilment is not wired. The Stripe webhook's checkout.session.completed handler requires a subscription tier and breaks silently without one, so a GS1 purchase would take payment and grant no product codes.
VIN Decode
$42
per scan
- ✓5-pack: $189
- ✓Full specification decode for any vehicle or trailer
- ✓Feeds the equipment record and the HutterMart listing
Add-on fulfilment is not wired. A VIN purchase would take payment and grant no decode.
AI Credits
$100
opening pack
- ✓Top up as you use them — no monthly commitment
- ✓Credits are consumed by usage, not by time
- ✓Your balance is always visible in the portal
Add-on fulfilment is not wired. An AI credit purchase would take payment and grant no credits. Note the colony wallet already has a working one-time Stripe rail (payerType WALLET, src/lib/wallet/stripe-dispatch.ts) — that is the likely home for this.
Transaction fees
Most of what you sell carries no fee at all
The full model, in one place. Where a fee applies it is on completed transactions only — never on a listing, a quote or an offer.
No fee
HutterMart — debit, e-transfer, crypto
Sell on your own rails and the platform takes nothing. This is the normal case, not a promotion.
3%
HutterMart — credit card
Applies to credit-card purchases only, because the card network charges for them.
No fee
Vendor or supplier selling to a colony
Your membership is the whole cost. The platform takes no cut of what you sell.
1%
Field to Facility · International · Government
On completed transactions only, every payment method. Credit cards are not accepted on this rail.
No fee
Memberships and AI credit purchases
What the price says is what you pay. Nothing is added on top.
8%
Medical bookings
Of provider booking income, charged instead of a provider subscription.
Free to join
Free registrations
These audiences pay nothing to be here. The colonies are the paying side.
Government & International Buyers
Free registration for government procurement and international buyers. Access verified production data, colony contacts and commodity availability across the network. Buying runs on the trade rail, so the same 1% applies on completed transactions and nothing before.
Field to Facility
Free to register and access the commodity trade platform. The Hutter Platform retains a 1% administration fee on completed transactions only — no upfront cost, no subscription.
Medical Providers
Doctors, nurse practitioners and clinicians serving colonies join free. The platform takes 8% of booking income instead of a subscription — you are charged only when you are booked.