Not free anymore – “You’ve reached your monthly visits limit”

  • We used One Click Accessibility for many years, and I was a bit anxious about it being abandoned. But what happened is way worse: Elementor took over and ruined it.

    I was reading comments here by the Elementor team that it would stay free forever, but I just got an email: “Congrats—your business is booming! You’ve already reached 80% of your monthly visits limit for Ally – your plugin for web accessibility – Don’t wait until you’ve fully reached your limit—keep your growing audience happy and engaged! -Upgrade →” Plans range from $120/yr to $480/yr (minus current discount).

    So it was not a lie, but it kinda was. Free for 1 website per account and up to 10,000 monthly visitors.

    Sad. I was not sure why we needed an Elementor account to run this plugin and was concerned about privacy aspects of it, but thought we would be okay for a few months until we found an alternative or Elementor made some positive changes in Ally. I definitely got that one wrong.

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  • Plugin Support Elementor Team

    (@talmo)

    Hi, thank you for your review.

    My apologies for receiving this email, we do not have any plans at the moment, and Ally is completely free and will continue to work as usual.

    You can use the legacy button to roll back to the older one-click, which is also free but lacks all of the new features for design, policy, etc.

    As any other plugin for WordPress we look to the future and base our new features based on the community and progress.

    I hope you have a wonderfull rest of your day!

    Thread Starter ip00

    (@ip00)

    Thanks for your response. However, I just received another email from Elementor stating that I’ve reached 100% of my monthly visit limit and need to upgrade to continue using Ally. The email also links to a landing page with detailed pricing and plan packages, which seems to contradict your statement that “we do not have any plans at the moment” and that Ally is “completely free and will continue to work as usual.”

    Can you clarify:

    1. Why does Ally have a visitor limit if it’s free?

    2. If Ally is truly free, why is an Elementor account mandatory? Will you provide an option to use it without an account?

    3. Will I continue receiving these emails? Should I just use the “unsubscribe” link in the footer and keep using the plugin without worrying that it will suddenly stop working at some point?

    I’d appreciate a clear and honest answer.

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