Run a free phishing simulation — no credit card, no sales call.
You don't need a budget, a security team, or a demo on the calendar to find out how phish-prone your people are. Watchword's free tier gives you a real phishing simulator — not a stripped trial — with an 80-category template library, a compose / preview / schedule flow, and a live results dashboard that runs entirely in your browser.
What you can do on the free tier
- Pick a real lure from the credential-harvest, invoice/BEC, MFA-fatigue, delivery, HR/payroll, IT-helpdesk, and OAuth-consent categories — each with its red-flag "tells" built in for the teachable moment.
- Send a simulated campaign with per-learner lure variants so the test isn't pattern-matchable across your team.
- Watch the results land on a dashboard: sent → opened → clicked → submitted → reported, with a phish-prone % and a per-person Human Risk Score.
- Train the clickers — anyone who clicks gets auto-enrolled in a remedial micro-course with a quiz and a verifiable certificate.
When you outgrow free
Free is genuinely useful, not a 14-day countdown. When you need unlimited campaigns, directory sync with auto-prune, custom dashboards, and compliance evidence export, Core is $1/user/mo with no minimum — and trials that expire just downgrade back to Free rather than locking you out. MSPs can run the same thing across every client from one console at $0.80/user/mo.
Free phishing simulation vs. the alternatives
| Most "free" tools | Watchword Free | |
|---|---|---|
| Real simulator in the free tier | limited / trial only | ✓ full simulator |
| Training library + certificates | usually paid | ✓ included |
| Free user cap | often ≤10 | up to 15 active |
| Credit card to start | sometimes | never |
| Stores typed passwords | varies | never — boolean capture |
Comparisons are general; verify each vendor's current free terms. See the CanIPhish comparison and the KnowBe4 comparison.