Everything you need to know about storage, limits, and what happens to your laps and analyses.
Each lap recorded with valid telemetry consumes minutes from your balance — the lap time is automatically deducted. Laps without telemetry don't consume anything.
Free Plan — automatic cleanup
FreeEvery day, Laptics automatically checks your laps. First, it removes laps older than 14 days (oldest first). If the balance is still full, it removes the oldest laps until there is space again.
PRO Plan — your choice
PROYou can choose between two options in your profile: automatic cleanup (same as Free, but with a 5,000 min limit) or pause new uploads when the balance fills up. With the second option, your existing laps stay intact and new uploads are temporarily blocked until you free up space manually.
To keep the system fast and efficient, Laptics runs an automatic cleanup process every day at 3am. It only acts on Free plan users who have exceeded their plan limits, respecting several protections before removing anything.
The process follows three steps in sequence:
Step 1 — Laps older than 30 days
Laps older than 30 days are removed. If the session has a saved Coach AI analysis, only the raw telemetry is deleted — the analysis text remains intact.
Step 2 — Volume control (oldest first)
If, after the previous step, you're still above the Free plan's minute limit, the oldest laps are removed one by one until the balance returns to within the limit.
Step 3 — Empty session cleanup
Sessions left with no laps and no saved AI analyses are removed automatically. Sessions with at least one protected lap or saved analysis are kept.
What is never removed by automatic cleanup:
The Race Vault is a safe where you store your most important laps so they are never removed by automatic cleanup.
When a vault's protection expires, the lap returns to the normal cleanup cycle. You receive alerts in the dashboard 7 days and 1 day before that happens.
Whenever another driver uses one of your laps as a reference in a comparative analysis, that lap receives automatic protection. It will not be removed by automatic cleanup while that comparison exists — regardless of how old the lap is.
You can identify these laps by the 🏆 icon that appears next to the lap number in your session. Hover over it to see the details.
How it works step by step:
Credits are Laptics' internal currency for generating Coach AI analyses. There are two types and each works differently.
Monthly credits (PRO exclusive)
PROEvery month, when the PRO plan renews, you automatically receive 10 credits to use that month. They don't carry over: if you have 3 left at the end of the month, they reset to 10 on renewal — not 13.
Add-on credits
You can buy extra credits at any time — at full price on Free, with a 50% discount on PRO. These credits never expire and stay in your account even if you cancel PRO.
Which is used first?
By default, monthly credits are used before add-on credits — so you don't waste the monthly ones. You can reverse this in Settings.
Cancelled PRO? What about credits?
Monthly credits go to zero — they're a PRO-exclusive benefit. Any add-on credits you purchased stay in your account.
What if an analysis fails?
If Coach AI fails to generate the analysis due to a system issue, the credit is automatically refunded. You never lose a credit due to a technical failure.
Each analysis generated by Coach AI consumes 1 credit. Credits don't expire — buy once, use whenever you want, no rush.
When an old lap is removed but has a saved analysis
The raw telemetry is deleted to free up space, but the analysis text (recommendations, strengths, improvements) remains available as normal.
How long is the analysis text saved?
Laptics has two types of lap comparison. Each has its own retention rules.
Comparison with an imported file
When you import a CSV file to compare with one of your laps, the CSV lap time is also deducted from your minute balance — the same way as a normally recorded lap.
Comparison between platform laps
When you compare your lap to another Laptics driver's lap, the comparison is linked to both laps. If either lap is removed by the automatic cleanup, the comparison disappears along with it.
You decide who can see your sessions, analyses, and comparisons. Each type has its own setting.
Sessions and laps
By default, your sessions are public — other drivers can see your results on your profile. You control this: each session has a privacy button, and in Settings you choose whether new sessions start as public or private.
Coach AI analyses
Analyses are private by default — only you read the feedback. You can make an individual analysis public, or set the default to 'public' in Settings.
Comparisons
When creating a comparison, you choose: private (only you), public (anyone with the link), or password-protected. This can be changed afterwards.
When the PRO plan is cancelled or expires without renewal, the transition to Free happens immediately — no waiting until the next day. Here's what changes:
Deletion is permanent and immediate. Once you confirm:
When a lap is marked for removal, it disappears from your dashboard immediately. The physical telemetry files are deleted from our servers within 24 hours — an automatic routine handles this daily.
Balance at 80%
You've used 80% of your available minutes.
Balance at 92%
You're almost at the limit — consider upgrading or freeing up space.
Balance at 100%
Your balance is full. New recordings may be blocked or old laps removed, depending on your plan.
Recording paused
A new recording attempt was blocked because your balance is full and you chose to pause instead of auto-remove.
Vault expires in 7 days
The protection on one of your Vault laps is about to expire.
Vault expires tomorrow
Protection expires in under 24 hours. Renew now to avoid losing it.
Vault expired
The protection expired and the lap has returned to the normal cleanup cycle.
PRO expires in 7 days
Your PRO plan expires soon. Renew to keep all the benefits.
PRO expires tomorrow
Last warning before the plan expires.
Plan changed to Free
Your PRO plan has expired and the transition is complete. A summary of what changed is included in the notification.