Most of Wayseer is free.
Files, this machine and Prometheus, in one window, need nothing but the download. A license key adds Kubernetes and SQL, modules from others, more than one window, and the integrations: control, MCP and the language model.
A license key, per person, per year
$200 business · $50 personal not on sale yet
Kubernetes, SQL, modules from others, more windows and the integrations, every release built in the next year, and the last of them for good. A personal key is for non-commercial use; any work for pay, freelance included, needs a business key. Checked on your machine; no account.
Renews automatically each year at the price shown until you cancel. We email the date and total 30 to 60 days before each renewal. Cancel any time from the link in your receipt email; the releases your key covers keep working.
pre-release Keys are not on sale yet. Prices are in US dollars, and the checkout will show your currency. Where prices normally include tax, as in the EU and the UK, they include it; elsewhere, as in the US, the checkout adds any sales tax. What follows is how keys work in the app.
| files | free |
|---|---|
| this machine | free |
| prometheus | free, with Alertmanager |
| wayseer | free: its own health |
| kubernetes | with a license key |
| sql | with a license key |
| modules from others | with a license key; one you write also needs a developer certificate from Wayseer |
| one window | free |
|---|---|
| more windows | with a license key |
| control and MCP | with a license key |
| language model | with a license key |
| business | $200 a person a year, one key each, all renewing on one date; seats added mid-year are charged to that date |
|---|---|
| personal | $50 a year, for non-commercial use, by card |
| 16 or more | 5% off every business seat; 10% at 31 or more |
| invoice | purchase orders and invoices on request, with no minimum: write to hello@wayseer.net |
| trial | a 30-day business key, emailed; one per organization every 6 months; ask at the same address |
| refund | in full, for any reason, within 14 days of any charge, renewals included; renewed keys are sent 15 days after the renewal charge |
| upgrade | personal to business, with the unused part of the year credited |
One line of text, checked on your machine.
A key starts with WAYSEER-1., names you as the licensee, and lists the sources and features it covers. Wayseer checks its signature against one built into the app. It never contacts a server to do it, so it works on a machine with no route out, and nothing can switch it off from afar.
Add a key and Kubernetes and SQL start at once, with no restart. Without one, they show as locked in the sources panel and the status strip, and Wayseer says so once, as it starts. It never nags, and everything else runs as usual. A click on a locked source opens >license, where you add a key.
Without a key, Ctrl+Shift+N opens no second window, a question to the model sends nothing, and the control socket answers every request with one refusal. Each says it needs a key, and the first two open >license. Remove a key and no open window closes; new ones stop opening.
| Paste it | Copy it, open >license and press Ctrl+V, or run >license.add. Wayseer checks it before it keeps it, in its state folder, readable only by you. |
|---|---|
| Name a file | license_file: ~/keys/wayseer.key in the config, for a key you deploy with the rest of it. Wayseer only reads it. If both are there, the config's wins, and >license says so. |
Private
Your key and your name show only in >license. They never go into a log, the language model's context, or a reply to an agent on the control socket. Those learn only that a source or a feature is locked.
A paid key never expires.
Each key comes with a year of updates. Every release built in that year takes it, for good. A release built after it needs a renewed key, and the one you have keeps running with no end date, unless it was refunded. The year is the right to use what is built in it, not a promise of how many releases that is.
It reads the release's date, not your clock
Each release carries the date it was built. Wayseer compares the key with that, never with the machine's clock. A clock that is wrong never locks you out, and setting it back never stretches a key. wayseer --version prints a release's date, and >license shows the releases your key covers.
Installing past your key
If a release is newer than your key covers, Wayseer says so when it starts, naming both dates, and leaves Kubernetes and SQL locked. Everything else runs. It never changes in the middle of a session.
The end-user license.
Using Wayseer, with a key or without one, is under the Wayseer end-user license. This page sums it up; the license itself says it in full.
Third-party parts
The fonts, the map of the land and the libraries Wayseer is built from keep their own licenses, and a key doesn't change them. Every package carries their notices, and you can read them in >license or with wayseer --licenses.