diff --git a/app/Features/SubscriptionExperiment.php b/app/Features/SubscriptionExperiment.php
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+++ b/app/Features/SubscriptionExperiment.php
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace App\Features;
+
+use App\Models\User;
+use Carbon\CarbonImmutable;
+
+/**
+ * A/B/C assignment for the trial/pricing experiment.
+ *
+ * Users who registered before `subscriptions.experiment.started_at` (or any user
+ * while it is null) are "legacy" and behave like the control group. Everyone who
+ * registered on or after the start is split evenly into the three variants by a
+ * stable hash of their id, so the bucket never changes for a given user.
+ *
+ * The split is deterministic (crc32(id) % 3); the funnel report mirrors the same
+ * formula in SQL. Manual overrides via `feature:enable` are honoured at runtime
+ * but are not reflected in that report — keep overrides to QA accounts.
+ *
+ * @api
+ */
+class SubscriptionExperiment
+{
+    public const LEGACY = 'legacy';
+
+    public const CONTROL = 'control';
+
+    public const REDUCED_TRIAL = 'reduced_trial';
+
+    public const PAY_NOW = 'pay_now';
+
+    public function resolve(User $user): string
+    {
+        $startedAt = config('subscriptions.experiment.started_at');
+
+        if ($startedAt === null || $user->created_at?->lt(CarbonImmutable::parse($startedAt))) {
+            return self::LEGACY;
+        }
+
+        return match (crc32((string) $user->getKey()) % 3) {
+            0 => self::CONTROL,
+            1 => self::REDUCED_TRIAL,
+            default => self::PAY_NOW,
+        };
+    }
+}
diff --git a/app/Services/Subscriptions/ExperimentOffer.php b/app/Services/Subscriptions/ExperimentOffer.php
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+++ b/app/Services/Subscriptions/ExperimentOffer.php
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+<?php
+
+namespace App\Services\Subscriptions;
+
+use App\Features\SubscriptionExperiment;
+use App\Models\User;
+use Carbon\CarbonImmutable;
+use Laravel\Cashier\Subscription;
+use Laravel\Pennant\Feature;
+
+/**
+ * Translates a user's experiment variant into the concrete offer they get:
+ * how many trial days per plan, whether they pay immediately, and whether they
+ * can still trigger the self-service refund. Single source of truth shared by
+ * the checkout, the paywall and the billing settings screen.
+ */
+class ExperimentOffer
+{
+    public function variantFor(User $user): string
+    {
+        return Feature::for($user)->value(SubscriptionExperiment::class);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Trial days to apply at checkout for the given plan and the user's variant.
+     */
+    public function trialDaysFor(User $user, string $planKey): int
+    {
+        return match ($this->variantFor($user)) {
+            SubscriptionExperiment::PAY_NOW => 0,
+            SubscriptionExperiment::REDUCED_TRIAL => (int) config(
+                "subscriptions.experiment.reduced_trial.{$planKey}",
+                config("subscriptions.plans.{$planKey}.trial_days", 0),
+            ),
+            default => (int) config("subscriptions.plans.{$planKey}.trial_days", 0),
+        };
+    }
+
+    public function refundWindowDays(): int
+    {
+        return (int) config('subscriptions.experiment.pay_now_refund_window_days', 3);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The offer descriptor handed to the frontend so it can render the trial /
+     * money-back copy without re-deriving any experiment logic.
+     *
+     * @return array{variant: string, payNow: bool, refundWindowDays: int, trialDays: array<string, int>}
+     */
+    public function offerFor(User $user): array
+    {
+        $variant = $this->variantFor($user);
+
+        return [
+            'variant' => $variant,
+            'payNow' => $variant === SubscriptionExperiment::PAY_NOW,
+            'refundWindowDays' => $this->refundWindowDays(),
+            'trialDays' => [
+                'monthly' => $this->trialDaysFor($user, 'monthly'),
+                'yearly' => $this->trialDaysFor($user, 'yearly'),
+            ],
+        ];
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Whether the user can still self-refund: pay_now variant, an active
+     * subscription, inside the refund window, and not already refunded.
+     */
+    public function canSelfRefund(User $user): bool
+    {
+        if ($this->variantFor($user) !== SubscriptionExperiment::PAY_NOW) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        $subscription = $user->subscription('default');
+
+        if ($subscription === null || $subscription->refunded_at !== null || ! $subscription->active()) {
+            return false;
+        }
+
+        return $this->refundDeadlineFor($subscription)->isFuture();
+    }
+
+    public function refundDeadlineFor(Subscription $subscription): CarbonImmutable
+    {
+        return CarbonImmutable::parse($subscription->created_at)->addDays($this->refundWindowDays());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/config/subscriptions.php b/config/subscriptions.php
index 8b375b1a..19337042 100644
--- a/config/subscriptions.php
+++ b/config/subscriptions.php
@@ -15,6 +15,33 @@ return [
 
     'enabled' => env('SUBSCRIPTIONS_ENABLED', false),
 
+    /*
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    | Trial / Pricing Experiment
+    |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    |
+    | A/B/C test on how the paid plan is offered. Users who register on or after
+    | `started_at` are split evenly into three variants (control / reduced_trial
+    | / pay_now); everyone who registered earlier stays "legacy" and keeps the
+    | current trial. While `started_at` is null the experiment is off and every
+    | user behaves like the control group, so this is a no-op until activated.
+    |
+    | - control:       the current trial (plans.*.trial_days, 15 days).
+    | - reduced_trial: a shorter trial (reduced_trial.* below).
+    | - pay_now:       no trial, charged immediately, with a self-service refund
+    |                  window of `pay_now_refund_window_days` days.
+    |
+    */
+
+    'experiment' => [
+        'started_at' => env('SUBSCRIPTION_EXPERIMENT_STARTED_AT'),
+        'reduced_trial' => [
+            'monthly' => (int) env('SUBSCRIPTION_EXPERIMENT_REDUCED_TRIAL_MONTHLY', 3),
+            'yearly' => (int) env('SUBSCRIPTION_EXPERIMENT_REDUCED_TRIAL_YEARLY', 7),
+        ],
+        'pay_now_refund_window_days' => (int) env('SUBSCRIPTION_EXPERIMENT_REFUND_WINDOW_DAYS', 3),
+    ],
+
     /*
     |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
     | Stripe Product IDs
diff --git a/tests/Feature/SubscriptionExperimentTest.php b/tests/Feature/SubscriptionExperimentTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..deba5eab
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+++ b/tests/Feature/SubscriptionExperimentTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+<?php
+
+use App\Features\SubscriptionExperiment;
+use App\Models\User;
+use App\Services\Subscriptions\ExperimentOffer;
+use Carbon\CarbonImmutable;
+use Laravel\Pennant\Feature;
+
+beforeEach(function () {
+    config([
+        'subscriptions.experiment.started_at' => '2026-06-01',
+        'subscriptions.experiment.reduced_trial.monthly' => 3,
+        'subscriptions.experiment.reduced_trial.yearly' => 7,
+        'subscriptions.experiment.pay_now_refund_window_days' => 3,
+        'subscriptions.plans.monthly.trial_days' => 15,
+        'subscriptions.plans.yearly.trial_days' => 15,
+    ]);
+});
+
+it('keeps users who registered before the experiment as legacy', function () {
+    $user = User::factory()->create(['created_at' => CarbonImmutable::parse('2026-05-20')]);
+
+    expect(app(ExperimentOffer::class)->variantFor($user))->toBe(SubscriptionExperiment::LEGACY);
+});
+
+it('treats everyone as legacy while the experiment is off', function () {
+    config(['subscriptions.experiment.started_at' => null]);
+
+    $user = User::factory()->create(['created_at' => CarbonImmutable::parse('2026-06-10')]);
+
+    expect(app(ExperimentOffer::class)->variantFor($user))->toBe(SubscriptionExperiment::LEGACY);
+});
+
+it('splits post-start users across all three variants and stays stable per user', function () {
+    $offer = app(ExperimentOffer::class);
+    $variants = [];
+
+    for ($i = 0; $i < 60; $i++) {
+        $user = User::factory()->create(['created_at' => CarbonImmutable::parse('2026-06-10')]);
+        $assigned = $offer->variantFor($user);
+        $variants[] = $assigned;
+
+        Feature::flushCache();
+        expect($offer->variantFor($user))->toBe($assigned);
+    }
+
+    expect(array_unique($variants))->toEqualCanonicalizing([
+        SubscriptionExperiment::CONTROL,
+        SubscriptionExperiment::REDUCED_TRIAL,
+        SubscriptionExperiment::PAY_NOW,
+    ]);
+});
+
+it('applies the trial days that match each variant', function () {
+    $offer = app(ExperimentOffer::class);
+    $user = User::factory()->create(['created_at' => CarbonImmutable::parse('2026-06-10')]);
+
+    Feature::for($user)->activate(SubscriptionExperiment::class, SubscriptionExperiment::CONTROL);
+    expect($offer->trialDaysFor($user, 'monthly'))->toBe(15)
+        ->and($offer->trialDaysFor($user, 'yearly'))->toBe(15);
+
+    Feature::for($user)->activate(SubscriptionExperiment::class, SubscriptionExperiment::REDUCED_TRIAL);
+    expect($offer->trialDaysFor($user, 'monthly'))->toBe(3)
+        ->and($offer->trialDaysFor($user, 'yearly'))->toBe(7);
+
+    Feature::for($user)->activate(SubscriptionExperiment::class, SubscriptionExperiment::PAY_NOW);
+    expect($offer->trialDaysFor($user, 'monthly'))->toBe(0)
+        ->and($offer->trialDaysFor($user, 'yearly'))->toBe(0);
+});
+
+it('describes a pay-now offer for the frontend', function () {
+    $user = User::factory()->create(['created_at' => CarbonImmutable::parse('2026-06-10')]);
+    Feature::for($user)->activate(SubscriptionExperiment::class, SubscriptionExperiment::PAY_NOW);
+
+    $offer = app(ExperimentOffer::class)->offerFor($user);
+
+    expect($offer['variant'])->toBe(SubscriptionExperiment::PAY_NOW)
+        ->and($offer['payNow'])->toBeTrue()
+        ->and($offer['refundWindowDays'])->toBe(3)
+        ->and($offer['trialDays']['monthly'])->toBe(0)
+        ->and($offer['trialDays']['yearly'])->toBe(0);
+});