FRIQ Labs prices by review volume, not by store size or revenue, which makes budgeting for it more straightforward than most fraud tools that take a percentage of sales. I run E-Commerce Paradise, where I cover high-ticket dropshipping, and here’s exactly what each tier costs and how to figure out which one actually fits your order volume.
Test a Single Order Before Committing to a Monthly Plan
A $29 one-off review lets you evaluate FRIQ’s report quality without a subscription.
Pricing at a Glance
| Plan | Price | Reviews Included |
|---|---|---|
| One-Off Review | $29 per review | 1 review, no subscription |
| Light | $99/month | Up to 20 reviews/month |
| Starter | $399/month | Up to 200 reviews/month |
| Growth | $599/month | Up to 400 reviews/month |
One-Off Review: $29
This is the entry point for merchants who want to test the service before committing to anything recurring. No Shopify webhook setup is required, you submit a single order and get back a full written report with a Ship, Hold, or Cancel recommendation. This is the cheapest way to evaluate whether FRIQ’s analysis actually changes how you’d have handled a borderline order on gut instinct alone.
Light Plan: $99/month
Covers up to 20 fraud reviews a month, positioned for low-volume Shopify stores. At 20 reviews, that works out to roughly $5 per review, a meaningful discount off the $29 one-off rate once you’re reviewing more than 3-4 orders monthly. A 7-day free trial is included.
This tier fits a newer or smaller high-ticket niche store that isn’t yet processing enough volume to justify a higher-capacity plan, but wants ongoing screening rather than one-off checks.
Starter Plan: $399/month
FRIQ’s most popular tier, covering up to 200 reviews a month, works out to roughly $2 per review at full utilization. This is aimed at growing Shopify stores with meaningful order volume where manually submitting one-off reviews would become tedious and where the per-review cost needs to come down to stay proportional to margin.
Cover 200 Monthly Reviews for Under $2 Each
The Starter plan is FRIQ’s most popular tier for growing high-ticket Shopify stores.
Growth Plan: $599/month
Covers up to 400 reviews monthly with priority review queue placement, meaning your orders get analyst attention ahead of lower tiers during high-volume periods. At full utilization that’s roughly $1.50 per review, the lowest per-unit cost across the published tiers. This fits established high-ticket stores with consistent daily order volume where fraud screening has become a routine operational cost rather than an occasional check.
What Happens If You Exceed Your Monthly Cap
FRIQ’s pricing page doesn’t publish an explicit overage rate for exceeding your plan’s monthly review allotment. If your order volume is close to a tier boundary, confirm directly with FRIQ (via their booking link) what happens if you go over before committing to an annual budget around a specific tier, since this detail isn’t publicly documented at the time of writing.
No Contract, Cancel Anytime
Every subscription tier runs month-to-month with no long-term contract and can be canceled at any time. This is a meaningful contrast to competitors like NoFraud (rebranded Wyllo), which FRIQ’s own materials note has locked merchants into longer contracts with early-termination penalties in some configurations. For a store still validating whether manual fraud review is worth the ongoing cost, the ability to cancel without penalty lowers the risk of committing.
Free Trial Details
All three subscription tiers (Light, Starter, Growth) include a 7-day free trial. The one-off $29 review doesn’t have a trial since it’s already a single, non-recurring purchase. Use the trial period to run your actual order flow through FRIQ and confirm the review volume and turnaround time genuinely fit your operation before the first charge hits.
How FRIQ’s Pricing Compares to Percentage-Based Fraud Tools
ClearSale and similar hybrid automated-plus-manual fraud platforms typically charge a percentage of transaction volume on top of a base platform fee, FRIQ’s founder cites paying $3,000-$4,000 a month on ClearSale at his own store’s peak. FRIQ’s flat per-review-volume pricing means your cost stays predictable regardless of your average order value, a $2,000 order and a $500 order cost the same to review. For very high-AOV stores, this flat structure can work out considerably cheaper than a percentage-of-revenue model.
Calculating Your Actual Per-Order Cost
Divide your monthly plan cost by your actual expected review volume, not the tier’s maximum, to get a realistic per-order cost. A store reviewing 150 orders a month on the 200-review Starter plan is paying roughly $2.66 per reviewed order, still well under the $29 one-off rate, but higher than the $2 figure you’d get assuming full utilization. Running this math against your real order volume before choosing a tier avoids overpaying for capacity you won’t use.
Is FRIQ’s Pricing Worth It Compared to the Cost of Fraud Losses
The Federal Trade Commission’s data on consumer fraud trends shows online shopping fraud losses running into the billions of dollars annually across reported cases, according to the FTC’s consumer protection data spotlight. For a high-ticket store, avoiding even one or two fraudulent shipments a month can easily cover the cost of a Light or Starter plan, since a single chargeback on a $1,500 order wipes out the margin from dozens of legitimate sales.
The U.S. Small Business Administration’s guidance on managing online business risk similarly emphasizes that proactive fraud prevention costs are generally a smaller expense than the losses and administrative burden of handling chargebacks after the fact, according to SBA guidance on managing and marketing a small business.
Budgeting FRIQ Against Your Overall Operating Costs
Treat fraud review as a small, predictable line item alongside other fixed high-ticket niche store costs like supplier fees and payment processing rates. At $99-$599 a month depending on tier, FRIQ’s cost is generally modest relative to the order values it’s protecting, particularly once you’ve validated that the analyst recommendations are actually catching orders you’d have shipped blind otherwise.
When to Upgrade Tiers
Move up a tier once you’re consistently reviewing more than 80-90% of your current plan’s monthly allotment, rather than waiting until you’re maxed out and facing an unclear overage situation. Since there’s no contract, testing a higher tier for a month during a seasonal volume spike and downgrading afterward is a reasonable way to match cost to actual need throughout the year.
Factoring in the Time Cost of Reviewing Reports
Beyond the subscription fee, budget a few minutes per report for actually reading and acting on FRIQ’s Ship/Hold/Cancel recommendation, this isn’t a fully automated tool that ships or cancels orders on your behalf. For a solo operator also juggling supplier relationships and daily order fulfillment, this time cost is small per report but adds up at higher review volumes, worth factoring in alongside the dollar cost when choosing between tiers.
Reshipper Fraud and Why It Affects Pricing Decisions
One of the risk signals FRIQ’s analysts specifically check for is reshipper and freight-forwarding fraud, a well-documented pattern where stolen payment details are used to route high-value goods through a forwarding address, according to the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s guidance on reshipping scams. Stores in categories especially prone to this pattern, high-value electronics, e-bikes, and similar easily-resold goods, may find the higher-volume tiers pay for themselves faster than a lower-risk product category would.
FAQ
Is there a free plan?
No, but the $29 one-off review lets you test the service without a subscription, and all subscription tiers include a 7-day free trial.
What happens if I go over my monthly review limit?
This isn’t specified on FRIQ’s public pricing page, contact FRIQ directly to confirm before committing to a tier if your volume is near a boundary.
Is there an annual discount?
No annual pricing is published, all tiers appear to be billed monthly at the listed rate.
Which plan is most popular?
FRIQ markets the Starter plan ($399/month, up to 200 reviews) as its most popular tier.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes, all subscription tiers run month-to-month with no contract and can be canceled at any time.
Bottom Line
FRIQ Labs’ flat, review-volume-based pricing is straightforward to budget against once you know your actual order volume, and the $29 one-off option makes it easy to test before committing. For most growing high-ticket Shopify stores, the Starter plan at $399/month hits a reasonable balance between cost and coverage, while Light works for lower-volume stores just adding manual screening for the first time.
Whatever you budget for fraud prevention, it should sit on top of a properly structured business. If you haven’t yet locked in your niche or handled business formation, those decisions matter just as much as your fraud tooling budget.
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Trevor Fenner is an ecommerce entrepreneur and the founder of Ecommerce Paradise, a platform focused on helping entrepreneurs build and scale profitable high-ticket ecommerce and dropshipping businesses. With over a decade of hands-on experience, Trevor specializes in high-ticket dropshipping strategy, niche and product selection, supplier recruiting and onboarding, Google & Bing Shopping ads, ecommerce SEO, and systems-driven automation and scaling. Through Ecommerce Paradise, he provides free education via in-depth guides like How to Start High-Ticket Dropshipping, advanced training through the High-Ticket Dropshipping Masterclass, and fully done-for-you turnkey ecommerce services for entrepreneurs who want a faster, more hands-off path to growth. Trevor is known for emphasizing sustainable, real-world ecommerce models over hype-driven tactics, helping store owners build scalable, sellable, and location-independent brands.
