Commercial license

Buy a commercial license

A commercial license lets you use Umwelt in a product without the AGPL’s conditions. One license per company, per year, covering every product in its category.

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Do you need one?

When you don’t need a license

Building and testing

Development, prototypes and private builds for testers, partners, publishers or press are free.

Free play works

Games and play tools that meet the Free Play Exception use Umwelt for free.

AGPL projects

Projects released under the AGPL, or under a license compatible with it.

You need a license from the moment a product that uses Umwelt is publicly released or can earn revenue, and you don’t want to meet the AGPL’s conditions for it.

Pricing

Choose your tier

Per company, per year, in US dollars, before taxes. Your tier is your revenue or your funding over the last twelve months, whichever is greater.

Games and other play works that earn money. A game that earns nothing is free under the Free Play Exception. A game that also sells access to its characters through an API belongs to everything else.

Up to US$ 100,000$99per year

For a company with revenue or funding up to US$ 100,000 over the last twelve months.

  • Every product in its category
  • Released builds are yours to keep
  • Contractors and publishers included
Choose this tier
Up to US$ 500,000$999per year

For a company with revenue or funding up to US$ 500,000 over the last twelve months.

  • Every product in its category
  • Released builds are yours to keep
  • Contractors and publishers included
Choose this tier
Up to US$ 1,000,000$2,499per year

For a company with revenue or funding up to US$ 1,000,000 over the last twelve months.

  • Every product in its category
  • Released builds are yours to keep
  • Contractors and publishers included
Choose this tier

Something bigger?

Companies above US$ 1,000,000, Umwelt inside another engine or development kit, and service level agreements or priority support are priced by agreement.

Talk to us

At checkout you confirm your tier and accept the license terms. Payment, taxes and your invoice are handled there. The license renews each year, and you can stop at any time.

What you get

What the license includes

Your code stays yours

Use, embed and distribute Umwelt in your products under terms of your choice, and modify it without releasing your changes.

Released builds, forever

Every build you release while your license is active can be distributed and sold forever, even after you stop renewing.

Your whole team

Contractors and publishers work on your products under your license.

Honesty, not audits

Your tier is your own statement. At most once a year we may ask for a short written confirmation. A mistake made in good faith costs only the difference.

Grow without surprises

Passing your tier during the year costs nothing extra: you move up at your next renewal.

Good to know

How your tier is set

Revenue

The gross revenue of your company and every entity it controls, is controlled by or shares control with, over the last twelve months, from any source.

Funding

Money raised over the last twelve months from investors, grants or loans. The tier follows revenue or funding, whichever is greater.

Hosted services

A service that runs Umwelt on servers it operates for its users needs an active license for as long as it runs. A game’s own servers count as part of the released build.