Keygen AI

Keygen is an open, source-available software licensing and distribution API, built

for developers, by developers. Use Keygen to add license key validation,
entitlements, and device activation to your business's desktop apps, server
applications, on-premise software, and other products.

Software licensing for everyone

Keygen comes in two editions. Keygen CE is our Community Edition, and is free (as
in beer) to self-host for personal and commercial use. Keygen EE is our Enterprise
Edition, and it requires a license key to use. Keygen EE comes with dedicated
support, as well as enterprise-grade features like request logs, audit logs,
permissions, environments, and more.
I built Keygen to make software licensing accessible to everyone.

Managed hosting with Keygen Cloud

The easiest way to get started with Keygen is with our official managed service in
the cloud. We'll handle the hard stuff — high availability, backups, security, and
maintenance — while you focus on product.

Our managed hosting can save a substantial amount of developer time and resources.
For most businesses, this ends up being the best value option and the revenue goes
to funding the maintenance and further development of Keygen. So you’ll be
supporting open source software and getting a great service!

Self hosting with Keygen CE

Keygen is an open, source-available software licensing and distribution API, and we

have a free (as in beer) self-hosted solution. Keygen Community Edition is exactly
the same code base as our managed solution, Keygen Cloud, but with a less frequent
release schedule (think of it as an LTS release).

Bug fixes and new features are released to Keygen Cloud several times per week.
Features are battle-tested in Keygen Cloud which allows us to fix any bugs before
the general self-hosted release. Every 6 months, we combine all the changes into a
new self-hosted release.

Keygen CE does lack a few features from Keygen Cloud, which are available in Keygen
EE.

Interested in self-hosting Keygen? Take a look at our self-hosting docs.

Self hosting with Keygen EE

Keygen is also enterprise-grade, battle-tested in Keygen Cloud with some of the

best brands in the world. The following features are available in Keygen Enterprise
Edition:

Request logs: keep a historical record of API requests, along with who made the
request, the request body, response body, status code, IP address, and other
information.
Event logs: keep an audit trail of every single event that happens on a Keygen
account.
Environments: manage separate environments within a Keygen account, from test
environments, to a sandbox, to QA, to production.
Permissions: enterprise-grade roles and permissions.
SSO/SAML: support for SSO/SAML coming soon.
Keygen uses Keygen EE in production to run Keygen Cloud, which is used to license
Keygen EE. It's turtles Keygens all the way down (we love dogfooding our own
products).

To obtain a license key, please reach out.