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Pricing FAQ

Straight answers to the questions we get most about tiers, caps and what's free.

What do I get on the Free plan?

The whole core loop, forever, at no cost:

  • Capture, reproduce and benchmark runs — including the Benchmark vs fleet action that lights the Benchmarked badge. Every rung up to Compliant is earnable on Free; the top Audit-ready rung needs a signed attestation, included from Academic (free for verified academic domains) and up.
  • Unlimited public result cards and badges — publishing is never capped.
  • 250 private records — private by default, capped by volume, not by privacy.
  • A FAIR compliance checklist — enable the FAIR framework, evaluate it and watch your completion percentage. (Issuing a signed attestation requires the Academic plan — free for verified academic domains — or a paid tier; see below.)
  • Full qlprov export — the open, portable provenance format is never gated, on any tier.

What happens when I hit the 250 private-record cap?

Nothing is deleted, ever. When a workspace reaches its private-record cap:

  • Existing records stay fully readable, exportable and reproducible.
  • Publishing a record to a public card still works — and it frees a private slot, because public cards don't count against the private cap. So you're never blocked from sharing results.
  • To capture new private records beyond the cap, publish some existing ones or move to a plan with an unlimited private cap (Academic and up).

A usage meter ("187 / 250 private records") is shown on your dashboard so there are no surprises.

Is fleet comparison really free?

Yes. Fleet comparison — the Benchmark vs fleet button on a record — is available on Free. It scores a run by the Hellinger fidelity of its measured distribution against the noiseless ideal for the same circuit, ranks it within your workspace benchmark, and records the BenchmarkEntry that earns the Benchmarked badge. Every rung up to Compliant is reachable on Free; Audit-ready additionally needs a signed attestation (Academic and up).

Compliance — what's free vs. paid?

  • Free includes a read-only FAIR view: enable FAIR, see the evidence checklist and your completion percentage. The "Issue attestation" button is shown but locked, with an upgrade link.
  • Academic and up can issue signed, verifiable attestations and enable all frameworks (Team is capped at 10 concurrently; Academic, Lab and Enterprise are unlimited).
  • Team and up add continuous monitoring & alerts; Lab and up add a public Trust Center.

Do you issue DOIs?

Every published result card gets a free, citable persistent identifier (PID) on every tier — no network, no cost, works self-hosted and air-gapped. If the server is configured with a Zenodo token, you can also mint a real, free DOI with one click: Provenova archives the run's provenance record on Zenodo and stores the resulting DOI on the card. DOIs are metered per month (Free: 5/month; unlimited on Academic and paid tiers) and, being permanent, are minted only by the explicit action — never automatically. Hitting the cap never blocks publishing; the card keeps its always-free PID. (A DataCite path also exists for operators who have their own membership, but it's off by default.)

Is Provenova open source?

The client side is: the SDK, the vendor connectors, the reproduce engine, the calibration crawler and the qlprov provenance format are all Apache-2.0 — fork them, embed them, ship them. The server is source-available under the Business Source License (BUSL-1.1): the code is public, you can run all of it, and every release automatically becomes Apache-2.0 four years after it ships. The only thing the license reserves is offering the server itself to third parties as a hosted, managed, or embedded service or product — paid or free. The full breakdown, with examples of what you can and can't do, is on the Licensing page.

Can I self-host?

Yes — free, production included, no license key, no feature gates. Clone the repo and use the docker-compose in deploy/; a single-node SQLite deployment works out of the box. See Deployment & self-hosting.

What you can't self-host is trust. Attestations are only as credible as the key that signs them, and a self-hosted instance signs with its own key — which third parties have no reason to believe. That's what the paid tiers are actually about: the Lab tier's self-hostable signing service comes with verified keys — your instance's public key is registered in Provenova's trust directory, so attestations you sign verify against provenova.net — plus SSO/SAML and a public Trust Center. Run it yourself for free; pay us when you need the world to believe it.

How does academic verification work?

Sign up with an email at a recognised academic domain — .edu, .ac.<country> (e.g. .ac.uk), .edu.<country> (e.g. .edu.au), and common uni-*/univ-* institution domains worldwide — and your workspace is automatically granted the Academic plan (free) once your email is verified. If your institution isn't recognised, email us and we'll add it.

How do I pay / upgrade?

Paid tiers are provisioned by our team — there's no self-serve checkout. Pick a tier on the pricing page, hit Request access, and we'll enable it on your workspace (invoicing is handled off-platform). Prices are indicative; for volume, academic or air-gapped terms just talk to us.