what it costs

Free, and the paid one is the same program

What you pay for is answers about releases nobody else still builds for, and somebody answerable when one is wrong. You never pay for a tool, a seat, or a feature held back to make a tier look thin.

€0 · and it stays €0

Community

Anyone running a supported release, on their own machine or in CI.

Every tool, every source, no feature held back
Answers for the releases still in active support
Issues answered in the tracker, by whoever gets there first

Install it

where most start €490 · per year, per organisation

Extended

Teams still running a release that left active support.

Answers for releases back to 7.0, including the ones nobody else builds for
A named contact, and a reply inside two working days
The bundled index updated on the same schedule as the supported one

Start a subscription

€2,900 · per year, per organisation

Audited

Organisations that have to show where an answer came from.

A signed record of every index build, kept for seven years
The source list fixed by contract rather than by release note
A yearly review of what the tool read and what it never sent

Talk to us first

Prices are per year and exclude VAT. There is no per-seat count and no minimum term — a subscription that lapses becomes the free one rather than an expired install.

Not included, in any of them

A host. It runs on your machine or in your pipeline, and that is where it stays.
The work of a migration. Whoever does that is a person, not a subscription.
Training. The manual is free and stays free; a course is somebody's time.
Anything the free one does not already do. There is no feature behind the price.

The differences

Seven questions, answered in words. A column of ticks says “yes” and leaves the reader to work out what to — which is how a comparison table ends up being the thing nobody trusts.

What you ask about	Community	Extended	Audited
Tools available	all	all	all
Releases answered for	in active support	down to 7.0	down to 7.0
Index rebuilt	every release	every release	every release, signed
Reply to an issue	best effort	two working days	one working day
Record of the reads	none kept	none kept	seven years
Runs offline	yes	yes	yes
What leaves your machine	nothing	nothing	nothing

Before you decide

The four questions a price raises, answered here rather than in a policy somebody has to go and find. The first one stands open because it is the one nobody asks out loud.

Nothing of yours is on our side

The tool reads your installation and answers locally. There is no account, no upload and no record of what you asked — which is also why cancelling cannot cost you anything you had.

What happens when I stop the payment?

The tool goes on, at the Community level: every tool, every source, and answers for the releases still in active support. What you lose is the answers for releases that have left it, and the reply time. We delete nothing, we lock nothing, and we hold back no record of yours — there is nothing of yours on our side to hold.

Is the paid version a different program?

No. It is the same binary reading a larger index. That is why Community is not a trial and does not expire: there is no second build with the features taken out.

Per organisation — what counts as one?

Whoever pays the invoice, and everyone who works for them. Not per seat, not per machine, and not per project: a licence somebody has to count is a licence somebody gets wrong.

Can I pay for one release only?

No, and the reason belongs here rather than in a gap. The index builds once for all of them, so a subscription for one release costs us the same and costs you a negotiation.