Community, Professional and Enterprise all share the same Ed25519-signed license artifact. Feature flags sit in the JWT payload; the client enforces them locally. No server contact needed until the next lease refresh — with Enterprise Air-Gap, not at all.
For individual developers and evaluation. No account signup; the client fetches a signed JWT from the public license server on first launch.
For professionals and freelancers. Significantly higher limits, priority email support, same offline tolerance as Community. Price finalized after market research.
For companies and public authorities. Contracted limits, team features, SSO, audit log. Three deployment variants — Cloud, Self-Hosted or Air-Gap.
SaaS in the customer tenant. 30-day lease. License server operated by softwarefabrik.io in Frankfurt. Best fit for mid-sized companies without own infrastructure operations.
License server runs at the customer site (Docker Compose or Kubernetes). 90-day lease. The issued JWT points to the internal URL; the client refreshes against it automatically. Best fit for strict data sovereignty requirements.
Offline certificate valid for 365 days, signed once a year. No network contact; LLM must run on-prem. Best fit for public authorities and defense suppliers.
Note: Air-Gap licenses are part of the enterprise contract. Renewal is delivered via USB stick or file transfer. In V1 of the Softwarefabrik, Air-Gap is architecturally prepared and shipped on customer request.
| Criterion | Community | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | free | 50–100 €/month | from 20,000 €/year |
| Runs per day | 10 | 100 | configurable |
| Parallel agents | 3 | 10 | configurable |
| Lease duration | 7 days | 30 days | 30 / 90 / 365 days |
| Grace period | 30 days | 30 days | 30 days (none for Air-Gap) |
| Team features | — | — | ✓ |
| SSO | — | — | ✓ |
| Audit log | — | — | ✓ |
| Priority support | — | ✓ | ✓ |
All licenses are issued as a JWS (JSON Web Signature, Ed25519). The client has the public key embedded and verifies the signature offline. Feature flags such as max_runs_per_day, team_features and sso_enabled live in the payload.
Issuance happens through the license server (license.softwarefabrik.io in Cloud mode; Self-Hosted licenses point to the internal URL). The JWK representation of the public key is publicly available at /api/v1/pubkey and linked on the transparency page.