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

sudo neuraframe trial start     # 7-day free trial on this device (needs sudo: it writes a license file)
neuraframe status          # shows trial or license state

The trial computes an anonymous device fingerprint (a hash of this machine, not personal information), sends it to the licensing server, and installs the signed trial license it returns. Everything the Gateway does is available during the trial.

What starting a trial sends. An anonymous device fingerprint, this device's hostname and CPU architecture, and optionally an email to tie the trial to your account. Nothing else: your requests, responses, reuse memory, and model data never leave the machine. In return you receive a signed license file, and that file is the only thing added to your system to unlock the 7-day trial.

Activate a paid license

sudo neuraframe activate        # after subscribing on the website (needs sudo: it writes a license file)
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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