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Should Your Agency Adopt rypt? (Field-Level Encryption for Compliance Clients)

IF your agency delivers custom applications for healthcare, fintech, or e-commerce clients that need field-level encryption at rest, THEN rypt's Free tier ($0, 10,000 operations per month, one key) is enough to prototype and validate the encrypt/decrypt round-trip before you commit to a paid key. IF a client's production volume exceeds 10,000 operations monthly, THEN you move to Extra Wrapped at $3 per month for 50,000 operations or Software at $10 per month for 100,000 operations, with key custody shifting from an HSM-wrapped root key to a dedicated software-protected key. IF the client's compliance posture demands hardware-backed key custody, THEN only the Hardware tier qualifies, and the Free and Extra Wrapped tiers are non-starters.

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Should Your Agency Adopt rypt? (Field-Level Encryption for Compliance Clients)

“IF your agency delivers custom applications for healthcare, fintech, or e-commerce clients that need field-level encryption at rest, THEN rypt's Free tier ($0, 10,000 operations per month, one key) is enough to prototype and validate the encrypt/decrypt round-trip before you commit to a paid key. IF a client's production volume exceeds 10,000 operations monthly, THEN you move to Extra Wrapped at $3 per month for 50,000 operations or Software at $10 per month for 100,000 operations, with key custody shifting from an HSM-wrapped root key to a dedicated software-protected key. IF the client's compliance posture demands hardware-backed key custody, THEN only the Hardware tier qualifies, and the Free and Extra Wrapped tiers are non-starters.”

When is it the right choice?
  • The client's application stores sensitive fields (SSN, DOB, payment data) that must be encrypted at rest, and the engagement already includes custom application development or data security consulting
  • Monthly encryption volume is predictable and sits under 100,000 operations, so the Software tier at $10 per month covers production without a contact-sales cycle
  • The client needs an append-only audit log of every key operation for compliance evidence, and rypt's per-operation logging satisfies that requirement without a separate SIEM build
  • Your agency wants to resell encryption as a managed layer on retainer rather than hand the client a raw API key, and rypt's per-key pricing makes the margin math transparent
  • The client accepts Google Cloud KMS as the key custody provider, since rypt wraps key material there and does not offer a bring-your-own-KMS option
When should you skip it?
  • The client's workload runs envelope encryption on files and large objects at volumes that blow past 100,000 operations per month, because every tier above Software requires a contact-sales conversation with no published price
  • Regulatory or contractual requirements mandate hardware-backed key custody for every key, which rules out the Free and Extra Wrapped tiers where key material is wrapped by an HSM root key but not dedicated hardware
  • The client insists on self-hosted or on-premise key management, since rypt is a REST API with key custody in Google Cloud KMS and no self-hosted deployment path
  • Your agency has no application development or security consulting practice, because rypt is an embeddable API, not a turnkey SaaS product a generalist reseller can configure
  • The client's operation volume is spiky and unpredictable, because the Free tier refuses operations until reset at 00:00 UTC on the 1st once the 10,000 cap is hit, which creates a production outage risk
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