SoftActivate Licensing is out of beta. The service, the client SDK and the documentation now stand as a 1.0 product - and the way in got simpler and more generous at the same time.

A real trial: 30 days, no credit card

Every new account starts with a 30-day free trial: up to 10 products and 1,000 active devices, no credit card anywhere in the flow. That is enough room to integrate the SDK into your real application, roll it out to your testers, and watch real activations flow through the console - not a toy quota that runs out before your first build ships.

Two promises come with it:

• Nothing you build during the trial is ever lost. When you subscribe, your products, license templates, licenses and activated devices carry over unchanged - subscribing is one click, not a migration.
• An expired trial never bricks anything. If the 30 days run out before you decide, devices you already activated keep validating; only creating new licenses and activating new devices pause until you pick a plan. Need more time to evaluate? Write to us and we will extend the trial.

Signed SDK, version 1.0.0

The client SDK - native C++ and fully managed .NET - ships as v1.0.0, with the Windows binaries, the installers and the .NET assembly Authenticode-signed and RFC 3161 timestamped. Checksums are published with every download, as always. If you installed a beta package, uninstall it first - the GA installer will remind you.

The same platform that ran the beta

Nothing about the architecture changed at the flip: your licenses are signed certificates anchored in a public PKI, validation is offline-first, floating licenses and offline activation are in the box, and the whole service runs on the same serverless production infrastructure the beta ran on. What changed is the label - and with it, our commitment: plan limits are now enforced predictably (warnings first, and devices already activated always keep working), and the terms are the general-availability terms.

Getting started

1. Download the SDK - free, no account required for evaluation: the built-in demo credentials activate against a shared demo tenant so you can see a real activation before you sign up.
2. Create an account - no credit card; accounts are activated after a quick review, usually within hours, and your 30-day trial starts at activation.
3. Follow a quickstart in the documentation - C++ or C#/VB.NET, from zero to a validated license certificate.

To everyone who kicked the tires during the beta: thank you. Now it is simply live.