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License & Commercial Use

Free to explore and build. Licensed to ship.

Download and run the Enscrive CLI and start building immediately — no signup, no friction. Free use is for exploration, evaluation, and development: running the self-managed stack for non-commercial purposes. Production and commercial use require a paid subscription (on the managed platform) or a commercial license (self-managed), except under an enterprise agreement.

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The model at a glance

Use case Cost How it's granted
Exploration, evaluation, development — self-managed, non-commercial Free Source-available non-commercial license (self-managed). A free managed tier is also planned, quota-bounded to evaluation.
Production or commercial use (managed or self-managed) Subscription + metered billing Managed: a paid subscription tier. Self-managed: a commercial license from Enscrive.
Enterprise Custom Negotiated agreement — may include commercial self-managed rights, volume terms, and dedicated tenancy.

What's free

The download-and-run path stays frictionless. The boundary is the license, not a technical lock. You may, at no cost:

  • Install and run the Enscrive CLI and self-managed stack.
  • Use Enscrive as your neural backend to learn, prototype, and evaluate.
  • Develop against the full workflow — ingest, search, voice tuning, eval runs — for non-commercial purposes.

What requires a subscription or commercial license

Any production or commercial use is outside the free grant. That includes:

  • Serving end users or running a production workload.
  • Generating revenue or using Enscrive in a commercial product or service.
  • Any commercial workload — whether on the managed platform or self-managed.

For production on the managed platform, that's a subscription with metered billing. For self-managed commercial use, that's a commercial license. Enterprise agreements may grant broader self-managed rights.

License instrument

The self-managed Enscrive CLI and stack are distributed under a source-available, non-commercial license — PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0 — paired with separate Enscrive Commercial License / subscription terms for production and commercial use, and an enterprise carve-out. This is source-available, not a permissive open-source license: it permits free non-commercial development and evaluation, and reserves production and commercial use for paying subscribers or commercial licensees.

The exact LICENSE file ships with each self-managed distribution and governs in the event of any conflict with this summary. This page describes the intent; the license text is the legal instrument.

How the boundary is honored

  • Managed platform: the free tier (when launched) is quota-bounded to evaluation; production-grade usage requires a subscription tier with exact, metered billing.
  • Self-managed (CLI / enscrive-deploy): the license terms govern. Free use is bounded to non-commercial development and evaluation; production or commercial use requires a commercial license. This is an honor-system + license-terms model, standard for source-available infrastructure.

The managed platform at api.enscrive.io is pre-launch. This page describes the licensing model that governs the self-managed distribution today and the managed platform at launch; it is not a representation that a managed production service is generally available yet.