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License

Electrik is licensed under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL 1.1). You get the full feature set in source. What changes between lanes is who may use it commercially, not which features compile.

Additional Use Grant (free)

You may use Electrik without a commercial license when your use is limited to:

  • Personal projects and learning
  • Open-source projects
  • Independent, pre-revenue experimentation by individuals or small informal teams

Install at electrik.dev/install. Full feature surface — auth, teams, Stripe billing, Slate UI.

Commercial license required

The grant does not cover:

  • Companies or other legal entities shipping a product
  • Client, consulting, freelance, or agency work
  • Internal business tools
  • Any use as part of paid employment or professional services

Commercial tiers (Solo, Studio, Agency) are listed on Pricing. Contact [email protected] for an invoice or Agency quote.

Major versions (Solo / Studio)

A Solo or Studio purchase covers commercial use of the major version current at purchase (today: Electrik 5.x), including minor and patch releases on that line (5.1, 5.2, …).

The next major (for example 6.x) is a new commercial grant. Existing customers get a published upgrade path when that major ships — not silent “lifetime all futures” for $99. Agency deals can negotiate major-line scope explicitly.

This is a permission rule, not DRM. Composer stays public under BSL; we do not ship activation keys that block installs. Companies still need a matching commercial license for commercial use of a new major.

What this license does not cover

Electrik Slate (electrik/slate) and Slate Blocks (electrik/slate-blocks) are MIT packages. You can use them outside Electrik under their own licenses. This BSL applies to the Electrik SaaS kit.

Change date

Four years after first public release, Electrik relicenses to Apache License 2.0. See the full text in the GitHub LICENSE file.

Not MIT for every use case

Electrik is not "100% free for companies." That wording was wrong on older pages. Indie developers under the grant get the same codebase as commercial buyers; commercial buyers pay for permission, not a separate feature tier.

Commercial pricing Contact for commercial use