Retention

Auditledge automatically deletes events older than your plan’s retention window.

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Retention by plan

Plan	Retention	Events/month	Price
Free	14 days	10,000	$0
Starter	1 year (365 days)	500,000	$19/month
Growth	2 years (730 days)	5,000,000	$49/month
Pro	Custom	Unlimited	Contact us

Upgrade at auditledge.com/#pricing.

How retention works

• A cleanup job runs daily and deletes events with a timestamp older than your plan’s cutoff
• Retention is per-organization — each org is checked against the plan of the account that owns its API key
• Deletions are permanent and unrecoverable

Checking your retention window

curl https://api.auditledge.com/v1/usage \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer al_your_key_here"

{
  "plan": "starter",
  "events_this_month": 12450,
  "events_limit": 500000,
  "retention_days": 365
}

Compliance requirements

Framework	Minimum retention
SOC 2	1 year
ISO 27001	1–3 years (varies)
PCI DSS	1 year (3 months immediately accessible)
HIPAA	6 years
GDPR	As long as necessary

Starter (1 year) meets SOC 2 minimums. Growth (2 years) exceeds SOC 2 and most ISO 27001 requirements. Pro supports custom retention for HIPAA or other regulated industries.

Export before downgrading

If you downgrade, events outside the new retention window are deleted on the next cleanup run. Export first:

curl "https://api.auditledge.com/v1/events/export?format=json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer al_your_key_here" \
  -o full_export.json