Pricing

# Free. Open source.
Self-hosted.

Apache-2.0. The runtime is the product; we don't gate features behind a paid plan because there is no paid plan. Run it on your hardware, fork it, ship it. The promise of local-first is the whole point.

## What you pay for.

The runtime is free. Two things are not, and they're not ours to sell:

1. LLM inference. Whatever you pay your chosen provider — OpenAI tokens, Anthropic credits, OpenRouter credits — flows through your account, not ours.
2. The hardware. Your laptop, your server, your homelab, your AWS instance. We touch none of it.

## No tiers, on purpose.

We don't ship a "team" tier with cloud sync, a "business" tier with single sign-on, or an "enterprise" tier with procurement-friendly pricing. The runtime is the same whether one person uses it or a thousand. If your organization needs SSO, you wire it in front of the dashboard yourself; the code is yours to modify.

## No hosted version planned.

We're not running a hosted Axocoatl product. Local-first is a brand commitment, not a launch tactic. The promise that nothing leaves your box unless you wire it to is the whole thesis — flipping that later would invalidate the original choice.

## If you need help.

GitHub Discussions are the support channel. They're public, searchable, and free. If you'd rather pay for direct help, the project maintainers are reachable for paid engagements; contact details are in `SECURITY.md` and the contributor list. That's a side arrangement, not a product.

## Use it for free.

The only cost is your time to install and the inference tokens you choose to pay for.

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