Licensing
Short version: testing is free, running your business on it is not.
What you may do without paying us anything
| Evaluate, develop, test, benchmark, research, teach, run in CI | Free, no time limit — including inside a company, and on production-grade hardware. We would rather you tested it properly than briefly. |
| Run it in production on up to 3 devices | Free. A pilot cell, a demo robot, a single line does not need a contract. |
| Read, modify, fork, publish patches | Free. It is source-available; the licence restricts use in production, not reading or changing. |
| Use any version four years after its release | Free, under Apache-2.0. Every version converts automatically — the text of that future licence. |
What needs a commercial licence
- Production on more than three devices at a time.
- Shipping it inside a product you deliver to someone else.
- Operating it for a third party — as a service, or as part of one.
"Production" means the system is doing your organisation's actual work, or your customers' work. A test rig doing the same job under evaluation is not production, even if it is a company test rig on production hardware.
If you are not sure which side of that line you are on: ask us before you deploy. We would rather answer than argue about it afterwards.
What it costs
These are indicative. Volume, term and support level move them; ask for a quote.
| Pilot / qualification — 8–12 weeks, one hardware platform, acceptance criteria agreed up front | from €25,000 fixed |
| Qualifying an additional hardware platform | from €15,000 |
| Per device, ≤100 / 101–1,000 / >1,000 devices | €15 / €10 / €6 per device per month |
| — as a one-off perpetual licence per device | €350 / €240 / €140 |
| OEM product line — unlimited units of one product, one qualified platform | from €60,000 / year |
Support is included at next-business-day response. Four-hour response is available.
Why a pilot first, and why it is not free
We have measured this on one machine. Your hardware, your models and your load are not that machine, and we would be selling you a number we have not taken. The pilot is where we take it — on your hardware, against criteria you set, with a written result whether or not it flatters us.
If the pilot misses the criteria we agreed, you owe nothing beyond the pilot fee and you keep the measurement report. That report is worth having either way: it tells you what your GPU actually does under your load.
How to think about the per-device price
If the governor lets a robot stay one Jetson tier lower, that is roughly €700–900 of module cost per unit. €15 per month is a small share of that, and you can stop paying it.
If it does not save you a hardware tier and your GPU is not saturated, you should not buy it at all — see when this helps and when it does not in the README. We would rather tell you that now than after an invoice.
Contact
info@vigilant-crs.de · +49 711 540 464 08 Vigilant e.K., Königstraße 22, 70173 Stuttgart, Germany Full provider details: IMPRINT.md · Licence text: LICENSE
This page summarises the licence in plain language. Where it and LICENSE differ, the LICENSE text governs. Nothing here is legal advice.