Pricing
Helctic is source-available. Personal use, research, and small teams get it for free; commercial and at-scale uses are covered by a paid license. Pick the tier that matches how you intend to use it.
Community · Free
For individuals, learners, researchers, and small teams.
- ✅ View, run, and modify the source
- ✅ Internal & personal projects, self-hosted instances
- ✅ Limited production use
- ✅ Non-commercial academic & security research
- ✅ Community support (GitHub issues & discussions)
- 🚫 No competitive offerings
- 🚫 No AI training on the source
Eligibility: individuals, or entities with ≤ 10 employees or < $2M annual revenue.
Commercial · Contact us
For companies past the small-entity thresholds, or shipping Helctic inside a product.
- ✅ Everything in Community
- ✅ Production use at any scale
- ✅ Embed/redistribute within your product (per terms)
- ✅ Priority support & a direct contact
- ✅ Written license tailored to your deployment
- ➕ Optional: roadmap input, private builds
Pricing: based on company size and deployment. Annual.
Enterprise · Custom
For large-scale, OEM, regulated, or AI/ML use cases.
- ✅ Everything in Commercial
- ✅ OEM / white-label terms
- ✅ AI/ML use permissions (training, RAG, distillation) by agreement
- ✅ Custom indemnification & SLAs
- ✅ Engineering support & co-development options
- ✅ Architecture & security reviews
Frequently asked
Is this open source? No — it's source-available under the AWFixer Source Available License v0.4. You can read and use it under the licensing terms, but some uses require a commercial license.
I'm a startup under 10 people — do I need to pay? No. You're covered by the Community tier, including limited production use, as long as you're not building a competing offering. If you grow past the thresholds you get a 180-day grace period.
Can I train a model on the code? Not under the free license. AI training/fine-tuning/distillation on the Software requires an Enterprise agreement. Ephemeral autocomplete on your own code is the only narrow exception.
Does the license loosen over time? Yes. Each version becomes more permissively available four years after release (the "Change Date").
How do I buy? Email oss@awfixer.me with your company size and how you plan to use Helctic, and we'll send terms.