Two you start free. One on request.
Vigia counts servers, and every installation has 10 free forever. Sonda counts people, and every organization has 10 seats free forever. Past those you buy keys — and in either one you only ever paste two things: the account license, free and once, and the key for what you bought. Cipher is licensed per deployment, by agreement. Every key is signed by LockFlare and opened on your own computer; nothing ever calls us to check.
At a glance
Three products. Three rules.
What each one counts, what it costs, when its year starts and where its keys come from. The prices are read live, so this table never disagrees with the checkout.
| Vigia · servers | Sonda · seats | Cipher · deployments | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What is counted | Servers — one on each slot, with everything Vigia does to a box as root. A server added as a terminal is never counted. | People — one enabled account in the organization, whatever it does. A disabled account holds no seat. | A deployment, on four axes: servers, cores, developer seats and environments, each agreed on its own. |
| Free | 10 slots on every installation, forever, no key. Terminals without limit. | 10 seats per organization, forever, every capability, no key. | Not free — licensed on request, to companies we have spoken with. |
| The price | A year of use: 1 slot $99 · 2 $180 · 3 $250 · 4 $310 · 5 $360; past five, $50 each. Up to 100 in one checkout. | $60 a seat for a year of use — $5 a month, billed by the year. 1 to 500 in one checkout; more in several, or by invoice. | Agreed per deployment. |
| When the year starts | The day the key is bought — every slot in it at once. | The day Sonda assigns the license to an account. Until then it waits in the pool with no clock: buy in January for March, lose nothing. | As agreed. |
| On its last day | The server on it drops to a terminal — nothing lost, the shell still opens — until you move it to another slot on Edit. | The next open license in the pool takes its place on its own. Pool empty: an orange line fifteen days before, ten days of grace, then the team closes to that account until a key arrives. | Capacity changes by agreement, never by a purchase in the app. |
| Renewal | Buy new slots and move the server on Edit; nothing stops in between. | Automatic from the pool, oldest account first. You decide what goes in the pool — no card on file, no automatic charge. | Only the axis that changed needs a word with us. |
| The account license | lockflare.com/license — your email, nothing else. Pasted in Vigia under Add Slots. | lockflare.com/sonda/license — your email and your organization id. The owner pastes it once, under Organization settings › Licensing. | Comes with the agreement, with the engine's license key. |
| Where you buy | lockflare.com/slots | lockflare.com/sonda/seats | Write to us |
You paste two things. Never the wrong one.
In Vigia and in Sonda alike, a license is two pastes: the account license, free and once — who you are — and the key for what you bought. Both are signed by LockFlare and checked on your own computer, with the public half built into the app. Nothing is activated and nothing calls us.
The two products have twin pages on purpose, and their keys do not mix: a Vigia key opens only in a Vigia that holds its license, a Sonda key only in the store of the organization it was bought for. A key on its own is dead without its license; the license is what to keep — and the same page that gave it sends it again, after a code mailed to your address.
Beside it, which page is whose, and where each paste goes.
Ten servers free. Then slots, by the year.
Vigia is free to download and run. Every installation has 10 server slots that never expire — no account, no card, no clock. A server on a slot gets everything Vigia does to a box as root.
The license, once
lockflare.com/license takes your email and gives you the account license — shown the first time, and mailed. Paste it in Vigia under Add Slots and that computer is your account from then on.
The slots, when you need them
lockflare.com/slots takes the same email and how many. A code is mailed to it; you pay once for the year, and the slot key is issued on the spot and mailed.
Paste, and the slots come in
Paste the key under Add Slots; every slot in it comes in at once, numbered after the ones you have. Paste the same license and keys on every computer your team works from.
Ten seats free. Then a year of use per seat.
One build, every capability, for everyone — solo, small teams and the enterprise. The only number ever counted is seats, and the first 10 are free forever. Not like Vigia: Sonda licenses people, one organization shares one pool, and a license's year starts when it is used, not when it is bought.
The license, once
lockflare.com/sonda/license takes your email and your organization's id — Sonda shows it under Organization settings › Licensing, with a Copy button. The owner pastes the license there once, for the whole organization.
The seats, when you need them
lockflare.com/sonda/seats takes the same email and how many — 1 to 500. A code is mailed to it; you pay, and the seat key is issued on the spot, bound to your organization.
Paste, and the pool fills
Paste the key in the same place. The licenses land in the organization's pool, clockless, in its own store; each starts its 365 days the day Sonda assigns it to an account.
On request. Per deployment, on four axes.
Cipher is licensed to companies we have spoken with, for the applications they name. There is no public download and no self-service plan: Cipher makes source code unreadable on the server that runs it, so we want to know who is running it.
Servers.
An engine instance on your infrastructure — cloud, bare metal or air-gapped. Each holds a license bound to its own address. Every encrypted build delivered to a server is keyed to that license: a build for one server is not usable on another, and removing the license leaves a machine that can no longer decrypt anything.
Cores.
CPU cores the runtime may use — as a pool across the fleet, not bound to any single machine. You decide the split per server when you register or edit one; move cores between boxes without a word to us.
Developer seats.
A named account in Cipher with its own permissions, login rules and audit trail. Removing a member frees a seat immediately.
Environments.
Development, UAT, Live — each isolated, each with its own servers and push rules.
Each axis on its own.
A deployment with three servers, one environment and two seats is licensed as exactly that. Add a server today, move cores tomorrow, open an environment next week: only the axis that changed needs a word with us. Capacity is changed by agreement, never by a purchase in the app; the Licensing screen shows all four as live gauges.
Arrangements.
Beyond the four axes: unlimited servers and cores, dedicated infrastructure, custom service levels, air-gapped and government deployments, priority support, and self-hosted artifact storage — which removes LockFlare from artifact custody entirely, and is the recommended configuration for regulated workloads.
The questions people ask first.
The prices and the rules in a sentence each — the same as the table above.
How much does LockFlare Sonda cost?
Sonda is free for up to 10 seats per organization, forever, with every capability included. Past them, a seat is $5 a month, billed by the year: $60 a seat for a year of use, from 1 to 500 seats in one purchase. Each license's year starts the day Sonda assigns it to an account, not the day it is bought.
How many seats are free in Sonda?
10 per organization, forever: all its divisions together, every capability included, with no key and no expiry. Owner, administrators, members and app runners count alike; a disabled account holds no seat.
How much does LockFlare Vigia cost?
The terminal is free with no limit, and every installation has 10 server slots free forever. Past them, slots are bought in one key for a year: 1 slot $99, 2 slots $180, 3 slots $250, 4 slots $310, 5 slots $360, then $50 a slot past five, up to 100 in one checkout.
Is there a free trial?
The free seats and the free slots are the trial: every capability works on them, with no account and no card. A purchase is final — there are no refunds.
Does anything renew or charge by itself?
No. No card is kept on file and nothing is charged on its own. In Sonda, a license that runs out is replaced from the licenses the organization already bought; when that pool is empty, you decide whether to buy more. In Vigia, a slot lasts a year from the day it is bought, and on its last day the server on it drops to a terminal until it is moved to another slot.
Can LockFlare Cipher be bought online?
No. Cipher has no public download and no self-service plan: it is licensed on request, per deployment, on four axes — servers, cores, developer seats and environments.
Does the license check call LockFlare?
Never. A license is a key signed by LockFlare and verified on your own computer with the public half built into the app. Neither app checks a license server, sends telemetry or looks for updates.