You are billed when a certificate is issued, never for submitting a build or for a review that ends in rejection.
For individual modders publishing open source projects.
Requires a public source repository.
For teams shipping closed-source mods on a release cadence.
Billed on issue, never on submission.
For launchers, modpack hosts and marketplaces verifying at scale.
Annual agreement.
Because the cost is the analyst's time, and that is spent per build. A subscription would either overcharge someone shipping twice a year or push us to rush reviews to keep margin. Neither is a business we want.
The badge changes to expired and the verification page says so. Re-certifying an unchanged artifact is free, because we already have the review on file. Re-certifying a rebuilt artifact is a new review, because it is a new hash.
There is nothing to refund. You are charged on issue only. A rejected build costs you the time it took to upload it, and you get the analyst's notes explaining what to fix.
Not as a single unit. A pack is a list of other people's artifacts, and we would be attesting to work we did not review. Individual mods within a pack can each hold their own certificate, and Platform customers can query all of them in one call.