Senja costs $19/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $684 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$19/mo Starter, $39/mo Pro ($228–468/yr) is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Bravowall: the pay-once alternative
Bravowall does the same core job for $29, once. Hosted collection forms, moderation queue, shadow-DOM wall embed & PNG cards. No subscription.
| Bravowall | Senja | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29 once | $19/mo Starter, $39/mo Pro ($228–468/yr) |
| Your data | SQLite file you own | Their cloud |
| Testimonials & spaces | Unlimited | Limited by plan |
| Wall embed | Shadow-DOM script tag | Script tag |
| Image cards | Server-side PNG export | Yes |
| CSV import | Yes — from Senja exports | No |
| Works offline / air-gapped | Yes (desktop mode) | No |
| Source code | MIT, on GitHub | Closed |
Senja Starter is $228/year. Bravowall pays for itself in about 6 weeks — then it's free, forever.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need Senja's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Bravowall is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Bravowall — $29, once
Hosted collection forms, moderation queue, shadow-DOM wall embed & PNG cards. No subscription.