What is free, and what is not.
Stated plainly, because this is the first thing a technical buyer checks. IVYX Studio is free for personal use, with no trial. Teams and companies above the thresholds below pay per seat.
- One sign-in in the app: no key to type, nothing sent by email.
- It works offline from then on.
- The gateway your agent connects to is free without limit.
- Nothing in any tier is metered.
Personal
Start herePersonal use, students, teachers and classrooms, and companies under 250 employees and under 10 million US dollars in annual revenue.
What you get
- The full desktop app for macOS and Linux
- The marketplace, and open browsing without an account
- Local kernels, models and datasets
- The gateway and the ivyx CLI: MCP serving, policy lint and explain, approvals, evidence verify
Business
The same product for a single person at a company above the Personal thresholds. No team features.
Everything in Personal, plus
- Licensed for a company above the Personal thresholds
- One seat per licence
Team
For teams that share policy, approvals and evidence.
Everything in Business, plus
- Team approvals over the registry: a held call travels to a reviewer on another machine, and each signature lands on the card
- Approvals routed to a reviewer rather than the caller
- Roles and named approvers: a rule says who may sign and how many must
Enterprise
Unlimited seats per deployment, with an SLA and dedicated support.
Everything in Team, plus
- SLA and dedicated support
At a glance
Every row is a licence term or a capability that ships today.
| Feature | Personal | Business | Team | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The app | ||||
| The full desktop app for macOS and Linux | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| The marketplace, and open browsing without an account | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Local kernels, models and datasets | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| The gateway and the ivyx CLI: MCP serving, policy lint and explain, approvals, evidence verify | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Metered usage | None | None | None | None |
| Licence | ||||
| Seats | 1 | 1 | From 5 | Unlimited per deployment |
| Licensed for a company above the Personal thresholds | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| SLA and dedicated support | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Team controls | ||||
| Team approvals over the registry | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Approvals routed to a reviewer rather than the caller | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Roles and named approvers, with the signatures a rule asks for | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
Frequently asked
Is IVYX Studio free?
IVYX Studio is free for personal use, for students and teachers, and for companies under 250 employees and under 10 million US dollars in annual revenue. There is no trial period. On first launch you create a free account with an email and a password, sign in once, and the app is licensed; there is no key to copy and the licence does not expire. Companies above either threshold need a Business or Team licence, and Enterprise covers unlimited seats per deployment.
Why does a free product ask for an account?
The account is where your licence lives, so signing in on a second machine licenses it too and a paid tier switches on without a new install. Nothing is sent by email. The licence is verified on the machine: a Personal install never calls the service again after the one sign-in, and a paid licence refreshes silently when it is online within thirty days of its expiry. What does reach the registry is what you ask of it: the updater, the marketplace, and a team approval you routed to a reviewer. The account holds an email, a password hash and your licence keys, and, in a team, the organisation and roles you were given.
Does IVYX Studio work offline?
IVYX Studio works offline after one sign-in with a connection. The licence is verified on the machine, and files, datasets and local models stay local. The updater and the marketplace reach the registry when they can and do nothing when they cannot, and a paid licence that lapses while offline falls back to Personal behaviour and never locks.
Is the gateway free?
The gateway is free without limit in every tier. Serving capabilities to Claude Code or any MCP client, checking a policy file, and verifying an evidence package never require a licence, because a record a third party cannot verify for free is not a record.
How do you check company size?
Company size is a licence term, not a technical check. IVYX does not measure your organisation, and the app does not phone home to do so. If your company is above the thresholds, you buy the licence; that is how the Docker Desktop model works, and it is the model we follow.
What is metered?
Nothing is metered. Capabilities, extensions, runs, gate decisions and evidence verification are unlimited in every tier. A gate that costs money at the moment of decision is a gate people route around.
Can I publish my own extensions?
Publishing is by arrangement today. Everything on the registry is built by the IVYX team, the path is live and documented, and we issue the token. The publishing guide says what a package needs, so read it and write to us.