Pro license

A Pro license is a single signed file. Nothing phones home, nothing is bound to a machine: the app verifies the signature locally against a public key it ships with, and that is the whole check. Install the file once per user and every project on that machine is Pro.

What you receive

Within 24 hours of buying Pro you get an email with the license attached as a one-line text file. It carries who it was issued to, the tier, the issue and expiry dates, and the limits, all signed, so nothing in it can be edited.

The license is per person, not per machine or per project. Install the same file on every computer you use.

Install it

From the app

Open Settings (the gear in the header, or Ctrl+Alt+S) and pick the License tab. Drop the file on the drop zone, or click it to browse.

The panel switches to the license's details as soon as the signature checks out: status, plan, who it is licensed to, and the expiry date. Nothing to restart: the daemon picks the file up the moment it is written.

From the CLI

Same result, useful on a headless machine or in a dotfiles script:

craftr license install --file=license.key

Or pipe it in:

cat license.key | craftr license install

Both work outside a project directory. On success the command prints the resulting license state as JSON; on failure it says why and leaves whatever license was already installed untouched.

By hand

The app and the CLI both just write the file to:

~/.config/api-craft/license.key

(or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/api-craft/license.key if you set XDG_CONFIG_HOME). Copying the file there yourself is equivalent.

Check its status

craftr license get prints the active state:

{
  "status": "active",
  "tier": "pro",
  "issuedTo": { "name": "Ada Lovelace", "email": "[email protected]" },
  "issuedAt": "2026-09-10T00:00:00.000Z",
  "expiresAt": "2027-09-10T00:00:00.000Z",
  "daysUntilExpiry": 365,
  "limits": { "maxApis": -1, "maxEnvironments": -1, "maxWorkflows": -1, "maxHistoryPerApi": 100 }
}

-1 in a limit means unlimited. In the app, the header shows a Pro badge next to the name on the license.

When it expires

A license is valid for one year from issue. It does not renew on its own: there is no subscription and nothing is charged again. The app walks you through the end of the term:

Every banner also offers Import a license, which opens the Settings tab, and I haven't received it, which opens a mail to support.

Renewing means buying another year and installing the new file over the old one.

What Free mode means

When a license expires, or when you have none, Free limits apply, but nothing on disk changes. Your files are plain JSON in your repository and stay exactly as they were.

The limits are counted against what already exists. If a project has more of something than Free allows, the app locks its use of the extras rather than deleting anything: sorted by name, everything past the limit can no longer be edited or run. The app shows a panel explaining why, the CLI refuses with an error. Delete an item to free the next one, or install a license and everything opens again.

Remove a license

Settings → License → Remove license, or:

craftr license remove

The app returns to the Free plan immediately. Your projects are not touched, and the same file can be installed again at any time.

If something goes wrong

Nothing after 24 hours from purchase? Check spam, then write to [email protected] with the order number from your Paddle receipt.