Licensing

Free, lifetime Pro, Cloud seats, activation, and how entitlements reach the agent.

Licences live on the account. After pairing, the agent receives entitlements from Cloud and caches them for 24 hours offline. After that, unreachable Cloud falls back to Free local core.

Licence to seats
Licence to seats

Tiers

TierMachinesHighlights
Free1Inspect, core controls, local history, optional pairing
Pro lifetime1 / 3 / 5 / 10Firewall mutate, ngrok tunnels, multi-machine
Cloudmax(Pro, 3)Pro + sync, notifications, backups

Site prices (GBP list): Pro £99 / £199 / £299 / £499; Cloud £15/month or £150/year. Active Pro takes £5/month off Cloud. Capacities do not stack.

Lifetime Pro does not include Cloud. Licences are not transferable between accounts.

AppSumo maps to the same Pro entitlements at deal prices; AppSumo Cloud is a 365-day grant. See AppSumo.

Machine activation

Licence → entitlement → machine limit → paired machines.

  1. Open Settings → Licensing (and Machines).
  2. Count registered machines against max seats.
  3. Revoke a machine you no longer need — the seat frees immediately.
  4. Pair another host with a new dashboard code.
  5. The same machine UUID after revoke reuses the seat.

There is no separate “activation file” to paste into the agent.

Expected result

Desktop Licence badge matches the account (free / pro / cloud) after pairing and reconnect.

Common problems

SymptomRecovery
Licence not recognisedPair the machine; wait for reconnect; 24h cache
Machine limitRevoke or upgrade
Pro paid but still Free locallyConfirm the same account; restart agent after purchase

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