Pricing
Simple pricing. No per-seat math.
Two annual tiers. 30-day full Premium trial, no credit card. Pro-rated refund within 30 days if it does not fit your stack.
Basic
$599/ year
Annual prepaid · USD
Node-locked licensing for teams that ship a single-tier product. Unlimited end-user license generation. Everything you need to sign, verify, and protect a desktop or server application.
Buy Basic →Premium
$1,899/ year
Annual prepaid · USD
Everything in Basic, plus the floating license server and client for concurrent-seat licensing across your customer's network. For products with multi-seat enterprise deployments.
Start 30-day trial →No credit card required.
What's included
| Basic | Premium | |
|---|---|---|
| C++17 library (Windows x64, Linux x64) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Signed license files (Ed25519 / RSA-SHA256) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Node-locked licensing (per-machine fingerprint) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hardware fingerprinting (4-component, threshold) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-layer anti-tampering (clock + integrity) | ✓ | ✓ |
| CLI tools: keygen, create, verify, fingerprint | ✓ | ✓ |
| Full documentation, code examples, source samples | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free updates for the license term | ✓ | ✓ |
| End-user license generation | Unlimited | Vendor-configured limit |
| Floating license server (concurrent-seat pools) | — | ✓ |
| Floating license client library | — | ✓ |
Multi-year discount
Commit to multiple years and pay less per year. Discounts compound with the launch promo below if you buy in the first 50.
- 2-year prepaid 10% off
- 3-year prepaid 15% off
Launch promo
The first 50 customers — either tier — receive 25% off the first year. Stacks with the multi-year discount.
Worked example
Premium, 3-year prepaid, first-50 customer:
$1,899 × 3 × 0.85 × 0.75 = $3,631
($1,210/year effective)
Frequently asked
How does the 30-day Premium trial work?
Request a trial on the contact page. We issue you a Premium-tier vendor license that expires 30 days after issue. No credit card required up front. During the trial you have full Premium features — node-locked + floating + every CLI tool. When the trial expires, the vendor license stops authorizing new license generation. End-user licenses you issued during the trial keep working until their stated expiry.
What does "annual prepaid" actually cover?
You pay once for one year. During that year you can issue end-user licenses to your customers, run the vendor tools on your build machine, and receive every RockyGuard release as it ships. After the year ends you choose to renew or stop. End-user licenses you issued during the year stay valid for whatever expiry date you put in them.
Refund policy?
Pro-rated refund within 30 days of the original purchase if RockyGuard does not meet your needs. Practically: try it, build a small spike against the docs, and if it does not fit your stack, ask for a refund. We will not argue about it within the 30-day window.
Can I upgrade from Basic to Premium mid-term?
Yes. We re-issue your vendor license at the Premium tier and credit the unused remainder of your Basic year against the Premium price. Contact us to coordinate.
Is the price per developer, per application, or per company?
Per company per year. One annual fee authorizes your team to integrate RockyGuard into any number of products you ship. The vendor license is bound to one or more specific build machines (you tell us which). End-user licenses you issue from those machines are uncapped on Basic and capped at a vendor-configured number on Premium (the cap is set generously and can be raised by contacting us).
What is the launch promo?
25% off your first year for the first 50 customers. Applies to either tier. Multi-year discount stacks: 10% off for a 2-year commitment, 15% off for 3 years. So a Premium 3-year prepaid first-50 customer pays $1,899 × 3 × 0.85 × 0.75 = $3,631 total ($1,210/year effective).
Bulk, educational, or open-source discounts?
Open-source projects: contact us, we are friendly. Bulk and educational: contact us, we will work it out.
How do I actually start?
Request a trial on the contact page. We reply within one business day with a vendor license bound to your build machine's hardware fingerprint (you run rg_fingerprint and send us the hash). The trial vendor license arrives by email; you copy it next to your build tools and run license_create against it. The full integration walkthrough is in the docs Quick Start.