Gateway licensing & trial

The Gateway is licensed as part of NeuraFrame Studio™, per device, and priced per device. The one thing worth knowing up front: when unlicensed, the Gateway does not stop your traffic. It becomes a transparent pass-through.

Per device, node-locked

A license is bound to the device fingerprint, so it activates on the machine running the gateway. Pricing is the simple per device plan shared by Studio and Gateway; see the pricing page.

Start a trial

neuraframe trial start     # 7-day free trial on this device
neuraframe status          # shows trial or license state

The trial reads the device fingerprint, asks for your email, and installs a signed trial license. Everything the Gateway does is available during the trial.

Activate a paid license

neuraframe activate        # after subscribing on the website
neuraframe license         # device fingerprint and validity
neuraframe license refresh # pull a renewed license
neuraframe billing         # open the billing portal

Pass-through when unlicensed

This is the important part for a proxy. When the license is missing or expired, the Gateway forwards every request to your provider and serves nothing from memory. Your model keeps working exactly as before; you simply lose the reuse savings until you renew. A lapsed license never breaks your application's traffic, and it never causes a fabricated answer.

Because pass-through is fully transparent, you can leave the Gateway in front of your provider permanently and treat the savings as an upgrade you switch on with a license.

Offline activation

For an air-gapped or restricted host, use offline activation: send the device fingerprint and receive a signed license file to install. The gateway then validates locally with no phone-home.

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