Commercial & pilots
agora is free to build on and commercially licensed to ship. Self-host it, evaluate it, run your own production workloads — no cost, no conversation needed. When you embed agora in a product you deliver to third parties, or you need the enterprise compliance layer and a support contract, that’s where commercial licensing comes in.
Who this is for
Section titled “Who this is for”You’re building an agent product — and your buyers are security- or compliance-conscious (healthcare, finance, legal, gov, or any team that asks “where does it run, and can you prove what it did?”). agora lets you answer that: deterministic, credential-sealed execution in your customer’s own account, emitting a tamper-evident audit bundle they can verify independently — so the security review becomes your funnel, not your wall.
The “what ran, to the byte” half is shippable and demoable today. The authorized → ran → on whose behalf chain of custody is the direction we build with design partners — not a finished product you wait on.
Start with a pilot (white-glove)
Section titled “Start with a pilot (white-glove)”For the first partners, we are the platform: we set agora up around your agents, run them in your account, and hand you the audit bundle — free, in exchange for blunt feedback and the 2–3 things you’d pay for. No build on your side, no procurement marathon.
Licensing tiers
Section titled “Licensing tiers”| Tier | For | License |
|---|---|---|
| Community | internal use, evaluation, dev/test, your own production | BSL (free) — full engine, self-host, audit bundle |
| Commercial | shipping or embedding agora in a product delivered to third parties (hosted or self-hosted) | commercial license |
| Enterprise | the above plus SSO/RBAC, compliance-evidence tooling (retention / attestation / export), and support/SLA | commercial license + Enterprise modules |
| Cloud (later, demand-pulled) | teams who want it hosted — where the logs are the chain of custody | subscription |
The Community engine is the real thing, not crippleware: it runs fully standalone. The Enterprise modules are seam implementations (RBAC, SSO, compliance tooling, the witness audit tier) that plug into the open engine’s extension points. See the project roadmap for which seams ship open and which implementations are Enterprise, and Licensing & BSL for the current grant.