Limits are currently soft: nothing stops working. We keep an eye on your usage, and if you get close to a tier cap, we will reach out about upgrading. Hard enforcement is coming later, with plenty of notice first.

Yes - every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. You add a card at checkout, pay nothing today, and can cancel any time before the trial ends from the self-service billing portal. There is no separate free tier; the sandbox included with every account is where you experiment without a plan.

Sign up, then in the console open Settings → Upgrade. Checkout is a hosted Stripe payment page (we never see your card details), and the billing portal handles card changes, plan switches, invoices and cancellation. Prices are in USD; customers in the EU are shown and billed the EUR prices.

Annual billing (two months free - pay for 10, get 12) arrives shortly after launch. For now, every plan is billed monthly.

Yes. Every paid tier has a Buy now option: you pay on a hosted Stripe checkout, and your plan arrives as a license key by email — proof of purchase you can redeem whenever you are ready. Create your account (or sign in), open Settings, and enter the key under Activate plan. Buying this way starts billing immediately; if you would rather try first, the free trial via sign-up is unchanged.

If you would rather run your own licensing server with a one-time purchase, the Licensing SDK (Legacy) remains fully supported. Choose SoftActivate Licensing when you want no infrastructure to manage, subscriptions, and real-time analytics baked in. The comparison page goes into more detail.