Editions & trial

Community is the permanent, activation-free product floor. Paid editions are entitlement tiers issued through the licensing edge at license.athenadb.app. Billing/checkout and the paid ladder are still being finalized during Early Access.

Editions at a glance

| Edition | Intent | | --- | --- | | Community | Useful Lite, Server, and Studio operation with no account, key, activation, expiry, or network check | | Standard | Small supported production deployments | | Plus | Growing teams, collaboration, device sync, and bounded multi-site use | | Professional | Advanced production, retrieval, programmability, and observability | | Professional Plus | Regulated, multi-site, advanced trust, sync, classification, and AI workloads | | Enterprise | Organization-wide, OEM/CSP, site, floating, offline, and negotiated deployments | | Trial | 180-day evaluation of the richer surface |

The paid assignments are product architecture, not GA claims. Release availability is controlled by the capability registry. Licensing never holds your data hostage: opening, reading, querying, backing up, restoring, and exporting your data remain available.

Start a trial

1. Create a portal account
2. Issue a trial from the dashboard
3. Activate on a device:

athenadb db license activate <key>
athenadb db license trial status

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