Pricing
Users are the real people who have access to your AwaitIO apps at the same time, locally or deployed, however many accounts they have or share. The free and the paid version are the same software: no paid features, no license keys, no limits and no telemetry. It works on trust. Try it free for 30 days with any number of users.
Up to 3 users
Free
No sign-up, no license key
- Up to 3 users
- Commercial use
- Unlimited apps
- Supporting the project
- Support
- SLA
4–10 users
$50/mo
Company License
- 4 to 10 users
- Commercial use
- Unlimited apps
- Invoice on request
- Standard support
- Priority support
- SLA
11–50 users
$250/mo
Company License
- 11 to 50 users
- Commercial use
- Unlimited apps
- Invoice on request
- Standard support
- Priority support
- SLA
Enterprise
Custom
Custom agreement
- More than 50 users
- Custom components
- Onboarding and training
- Contract and custom terms
- Priority support
- SLA
Support AwaitIO
No license needed but you like AwaitIO? A sponsorship of any amount, once or monthly, funds its development.
How to get a Company License
Sponsor AwaitIO on GitHub Sponsors with the monthly Company License tier for your number of users, from your organization's GitHub account or on its behalf.
That is the license: it stays valid while the sponsorship is active.
Every payment comes with an invoice on request: send your billing details to license@awaitio.com.
The full terms are in the AwaitIO License.
Frequently asked questions
Why is AwaitIO licensed this way?+
The model is inspired by Remotion. The source code is public, but AwaitIO is not open source.
The Licensor values people who build side projects and small teams on a tight budget. It does not want to take their money, so for them AwaitIO is free.
If you use AwaitIO for free and want to say thanks, a one-time sponsorship on GitHub Sponsors helps the most. Paying for a license anyway is welcome too.
Companies that have clients, sell services and earn money pay for the services that help them make a profit. AwaitIO is one of them. The Licensor helps them build their business, and in return it wants to be part of that journey. That is fair.
Is AwaitIO free for non-profits and schools?+
Yes, with any number of users, also when the non-profit belongs to a group of for-profit companies. A paid course that teaches AwaitIO is free for its teachers and students; the school's own internal tools count as usual. Please tell the Licensor who you are at license@awaitio.com.
What if the person who pays the sponsorship leaves?+
The license belongs to the organization, not to that person's GitHub account. If the sponsorship ends, for example because the owner who set it up from a personal account leaves, the organization needs to renew it from another account.
What if we are a larger team but cannot afford the license right now?+
Write to license@awaitio.com. The Licensor has been in that situation too and understands it. It would not want you to stop using AwaitIO only because you have no budget for the license right now. An exception or individual terms are agreed case by case.
What if I am not sure whether or which license I need?+
Write to license@awaitio.com and the Licensor will answer in writing.
Examples
How the license applies to common cases. These examples are part of the AwaitIO License, word for word.
Agencies and clients
Can I build tools with AwaitIO for my clients and charge for them?+
Yes. The client's users count, for each client on its own. A client with more than 3 users needs its own Company License, in the tier for its own number of users. This is the preferred way: the client pays for the software it runs.
You may also get the client's Company License on the client's behalf, for example as part of your own price. That license covers that one client only.
One Company License never covers several clients.
What if I host the applications for my clients myself?+
Nothing changes: users are still counted for each client on its own. A client with 2 users is free; a client with 5 users needs its own Company License, which you may get on its behalf. Hosting the applications you built for your clients is allowed and is not a hosted service under "What nobody may do".
May I deliver the same application to many clients?+
Yes. An application with its own purpose, such as a booking back office delivered to many clients, is not a framework, builder or platform, even when it is built with AwaitIO.
When the clients pay you to use it, it is your product and their users count together as yours. An agency that hosts one booking back office for 20 hair salons for a monthly fee counts the users of all 20 salons.
Do the people of an agency who run a client's application count?+
Yes. A project manager of an agency who runs the actions of five clients' applications in production is a user of each of the five clients. Developers who only build or test the applications do not count.
Products and services
What if I sell my application to many customers as a service?+
Then it is your product and the users of all your customers count together as yours. A service with 100 customers of 2 users each has 200 users and needs an Enterprise agreement.
May I offer a cloud for running other people's AwaitIO applications?+
Not without a separate written agreement with the Licensor. A service whose main purpose is to host, deploy, monitor or manage other people's applications built with AwaitIO, such as an AwaitIO cloud or dashboard, is not allowed.
May I include AwaitIO in an open-source application?+
Yes. Each organization that runs your application counts its own users and needs its own license past 3 users; you pay nothing for distributing it. Say so in your README or documentation, so the people who run it know.
Counting users
How are users counted when people join or leave?+
By the highest number of people with access at the same time in the month. If 3 people have access, one of them leaves and a new person takes their place in the same month, no more than 3 people had access at once, so that month has 3 users.
What if we have more users only for one month?+
You need the license for that month. If you normally have 3 users and an auditor gets access next to them in one month, 4 people had access at once, so that month has 4 users and needs a Company License.
Does someone who has access but does not use the application count?+
Yes. What counts is how many real people have access, not how many of them used the application.
Does someone who only approves a step count?+
Yes. A manager who only answers an approval step, or an external accountant who opens an application once a month, has access and is a user in that month.
What if one person has several accounts?+
That person is one user. A developer with a different email locally, in staging and in production, or with extra accounts for testing, counts once.
Teams and environments
Do our own developers count?+
Yes. If two of your employees develop an application and two others use it, you have 4 users. The developers of an agency or a freelancer who only build, test or demonstrate an application for a client do not count.
Do testers in a staging environment count?+
Yes. Users are counted across all environments. If 3 people have access in production and 2 testers have access only in staging, you have 5 users. The same person with an account in each environment counts once.
Do companies in one group count together?+
Yes. If a parent company and its subsidiary each have 2 users, they have 4 users together and need one Company License.
Automation and AI agents
Does an application that only runs on its own count?+
No. An application that only runs scheduled jobs or answers webhooks, with nobody opening it or answering its steps, has no users.
Does an AI agent that answers steps count?+
No. An AI agent is a system, like a scheduled job. The people who run the agent or check its work in the application count.