You subscribe
Any paid plan. From that month on, one tree gets funded in your name for as long as you stay with us.
Our tree pledge
We are named after a tree. So we plant them.
Every month, for every person paying for GPTree, we fund one real tree. Not once when you sign up. Every month you stay. Refer someone who subscribes and we plant another one for you on top. Nothing to click, nothing to opt into, no extra cost to you.
How it works
One tree a month, plus one for every referral.
You refer someone
If a person you referred subscribes, we plant an extra tree for you on top of your monthly one. Their own monthly tree starts too.
Your forest grows
A year on a paid plan is twelve trees, before any referrals. It keeps counting for as long as you are here, which is the part we like most about it.
Greenspark does the work
We fund it through Greenspark, who vet and run the reforestation projects. We do not plant them ourselves and we are not going to imply otherwise.
The rule
Monthly, and only for paying customers.
Plenty of products promise a tree for every signup. We do not, for one plain reason: a signup is not a person.
Any product with an open registration form collects waves of automated signups. Attaching a real environmental commitment to a number a script can inflate makes the number meaningless, and a meaningless number is worse than none at all. Someone paying for a subscription is a real person making a real decision, so that is what we count.
Monthly rather than once, because a one-off tree at signup rewards the wrong thing. This way the number reflects how long people actually stay, which is the honest measure of whether we built something worth keeping.
Referrals work the same way. Recommend GPTree to someone, and when they subscribe we plant an extra tree for you as well as starting their own monthly one. It is the only bonus we pay on an ongoing basis, and we pay it in trees rather than cash for the reasons below.
Being straight about it
What we do not claim.
GPTree exists on the premise that an answer should carry its evidence. It would be strange to run this page on vibes.
Things we are not saying
- Not carbon neutral. We have not measured our emissions, so we cannot claim to have cancelled them
- Not an offset. Greenspark sells carbon offsetting. We do not buy it, and a tree is not an offset
- Not climate positive. Running AI models uses energy, and a tree does not make that untrue
- Not a guarantee of a forest. Trees funded is not the same as trees standing in thirty years
Things we are saying
- One tree a month for every paying customer, for as long as they stay
- One extra tree for every person you refer who subscribes
- Funded through Greenspark, who vet and run the projects
- Counted publicly, on an impact profile you can open without taking our word for it
- A small good thing, paid for by us, and that is the whole of it
See the running total on our Greenspark profile
If a measured, audited carbon offset is what you need, buy one from an organisation that sells them and can show you the methodology. This is a different and more modest thing, and we would rather describe it accurately than sell it hard.
Why this and not a discount
A tree does something a dollar cannot.
We looked at paying cash for referrals. Cash gets farmed, it turns a recommendation into a transaction, and nobody has ever told a friend about a product because there was a dollar in it.
A tree costs us about the same. It cannot be gamed, it does not cheapen the recommendation, and it is the one part of GPTree you can go and stand next to.