PRICING
The Community edition is fully open source under AGPL-3.0 — self-host it for free, forever. Pay only for the scale you run: points, deployment shape, billing cycle.
Billing cycle
Recommended
For evaluation, development and self-hosted production under AGPL-3.0.
$0Free forever
The production plan, tiered by points and history volume.
$29/ instance · month
Billed annually · $348 / yr · ≤ 5M rows/mo
For closed-source integration, OEM and mission-critical scale.
Custom
priced by scale
HOW IT IS BILLED
The price is points & history tier × deployment shape × billing cycle. Standard drivers are always included.
Point count is access scale — real load also depends on sampling frequency and history volume: the same 500 points write about 43M rows a day at 1-second sampling versus roughly 12k at hourly. Professional tiers cap both: points (≤ 500 / ≤ 1,000 / ≤ 5,000 / ≤ 10,000) and monthly history writes (5M – 100M rows). Exceeding either moves you up a tier.
Points or volume exceeded → next tier
A standalone deployment counts as 1 instance, included in Professional. For distributed (Spring Cloud multi-node) clusters, each extra node is a flat add-on; Enterprise has no node limit.
Nodes: +$19 / node · month
All 36 standard drivers ship with every plan at no cost. A driver for a private or proprietary protocol is a one-off custom development, delivered with source code and docs.
Custom driver: from $4,000 / driver
Monthly is flexible — upgrade or downgrade tiers anytime. Annual saves 20% overall and supports a single consolidated invoice.
Annual saves 20%
COMPARE PLANS
| Dimension | Community | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $0 forever | $49 / mo | Custom |
| Standard 36 drivers | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Points scale | Unlimited (self-managed) | Officially backed, up to ≤ 10,000 | Unlimited / custom |
| History write cap | Unlimited (self-managed) | 5M – 100M rows / month | Unlimited / custom |
| Deployment shape | Standalone (distributed self-operated) | Standalone + distributed per node | Distributed + HA review |
| Custom driver development | — | Per driver add-on | Credits included |
| AGPL commercial exemption | — | — | ✓ |
Private deployment · data migration · driver customization · team training — quoted per project.
Every capability ships in the open-source Community edition. Upgrade when your production deployment needs official backing or commercial licensing.
A point is one collected data point on a device (a temperature, a pressure, a switch…). Professional is billed in whole point tiers — ≤ 500 / ≤ 1,000 / ≤ 5,000 / ≤ 10,000 points. Exceeding a tier moves you to the next one; there is no per-point metering.
Point count is only access scale — real load also depends on sampling frequency and history volume: the same 500 points write about 43M rows a day at 1-second sampling versus roughly 12k at hourly. Each tier therefore also includes a monthly history-write cap (5M – 100M rows) with storage sized at roughly 12× the monthly cap; exceeding either the point count or the data volume moves you up a tier, and usage beyond your tier falls outside the support coverage. The self-hosted Community edition has no such limits.
The Community edition ships distributed capabilities fully open source — deploy and operate them yourself. Professional includes 1 standalone production instance; each cluster node is a flat add-on (+$19/node·month, $228/year). Enterprise has no node limit and includes a high-availability architecture review. Multiple environments (e.g. production and testing) are billed separately by instance and node.
Standard drivers are included with every plan at no cost. A private or proprietary protocol driver is a one-off custom development from $4,000 per driver, delivered with source code and docs. Enterprise includes custom driver development credits.
Annual saves 20% overall at the same tier and supports a single consolidated invoice. Monthly is flexible — change tiers anytime. The difference is the billing cycle, not features.
Once we confirm the plan by email, we provide a formal quotation and a service agreement. We accept Alipay, WeChat Pay and bank transfer; businesses can book the expense against the agreement and invoice. We issue VAT general invoices (fapiao) for IT services; special VAT invoices are not supported yet — mention it in your email if you need one. Emails are answered within 3 business days.
Yes. IoT DC3 is licensed under AGPL-3.0, which permits commercial and internal use as long as the license terms are followed (for example, releasing the source of your modified version to those you serve). If your scenario cannot satisfy the AGPL — such as closed-source integration or OEM distribution — you need an Enterprise commercial license.
No. Tiers define the officially backed scale boundary, not a feature unlock: every capability ships fully open in the Community edition, and your point count and data volume set the tier.
The code is the same source — no migration or reinstallation needed. Keep your current deployment and reach us at pnokers@icloud.com to activate your tier and license.
It is on the roadmap. Tell us your scale and scenario at pnokers@icloud.com to help us prioritize.
