How licensing works
Free to build, pay to serve. The full feature set – plugins, media
processing, client-side search, styling, every diagram language – is free
in accent build and the development server. You pay only to serve in
production, to mount the admin UI, and for the Pro integrations.
One binary for everyone. Every download contains everything. A license key – an offline-verified, Ed25519-signed token – unlocks your tier at runtime. No phone-home, no telemetry, no network calls for licensing.
Yearly means ownership. A yearly license covers every release up to its version line, forever. When it lapses, everything you licensed keeps running – you only renew to get newer releases. Monthly is a rental: full capability while active, falling back to the free tier if not renewed.
Evaluate for free. Building sites and local development never need a license – download and try everything. To evaluate production serving, a monthly license is the low-commitment path: full capability while active, no obligation beyond the month.
Questions, team licenses, or anything else: hello@accentcms.dev.