10. Licensing & editions

Aefos AI ships in three editions. The Community edition is free — including for internal commercial/business use, with no penalty.

Editions

Edition	Price	Includes
Community	Free	The Chat, including Agent mode, with your own CLI account
Pro	Subscription	Productivity features and execution power (below)
Enterprise	Contract	Broad corporate use, support, governance

What each tier unlocks

The philosophy is: the convenience/auto-creation is paid; the manual core is free. A Community user can still do everything by hand (write the .mcp.json, type commands manually); Pro buys the in-IDE wizards and execution power.

Feature	Tier
Chat (panel + conversation)	Community
Agent mode (the chat default)	Community
Terminal	Pro
MCP auto-setup/provisioning (dialog)	Pro
Command-creation wizard	Pro
Advanced project context	Pro
Session history + templates	Pro
Silent reload (smooth AI flow)	Pro

During beta, enforcement is soft (the feature works and there is an upsell notice). Enforcement becomes strict at general availability (GA).

How licensing works

Node-locked single-seat: one license covers one copy of Delphi per machine/user. The server guarantees atomically that one key = one active IDE (for 1 seat).
Self-transfer: deactivating on one machine frees the seat so you can activate on another Delphi.
Offline-safe: once validated, the license works offline within a grace window; without a key, there is a built-in trial.

How to activate

In View → Aefos AI (Chat), click the license item (it shows the current status, e.g. License: active).
Enter your license key.
Done — activation binds this copy of Delphi to your seat.

The license menu item itself shows the current status (e.g. License: active).

Free business use

The Community edition can be used by companies of any size, internally, with no per-seat fee, no user limit, and no penalty. Details are in the EULA (see also Privacy & license).

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