Community Edition license

The AI-FW Community Edition is free to use. This page is the full terms reference; the gateway enforces the allowance it reads from the published license documents, with this page as the authoritative source.

Monthly token allowance#

The Community Edition may process 100,000,000 tokens per month, measured over a rolling 30-day window. The count is the total of prompt and completion tokens for every allowed transaction the gateway processes while running the Community Edition.

The allowance is published so it can be updated without a gateway release. The gateway re-reads the license documents hourly and applies the current value. If the published sources are unreachable, the gateway keeps the last known-good cap, and falls back to a conservative default until a fetch succeeds.

What counts against the allowance#

• Prompt tokens for every allowed request, before or after any gateway processing.
• Completion tokens for every allowed response, streamed or not.
• Tokens consumed by tool calls and their results within a request.

Requests that fail authentication or inspection are not processed, so they do not consume tokens. Tokens are not refunded when a response is interrupted.

Enforcement#

Enforcement is gateway-side and requires no license key, account, or phone home beyond reading the public license documents.

• Under the allowance, requests flow normally.
• Above the allowance, a 7-day grace period still passes requests while the gateway flags the overage on the Dashboard and in response headers.
• Past the grace period, the gateway returns 429 license_quota_exceeded until usage falls back inside the rolling 30-day window.

The gateway never routes traffic around itself to bypass the allowance. If you see license-quota errors in normal use, check the token meter on the Dashboard to confirm where usage stands within the window.

Updates to the allowance#

The license documents carry a version number. When AI-FW changes the allowance or the terms, the version increments and the gateway logs the change. The current version is always visible at the license URLs below.

• License document (machine-readable): https://aifw.io/community-edition/license.json
• License overview (human-readable): https://aifw.io/community-edition/license

Scaling beyond the Community Edition#

The Community Edition is free. For higher limits, guaranteed throughput, or enterprise features, contact sales. The full terms are published by AI-FW, a product of Securetron.net.