Commercial
Licensing

SMILE is free for open-source projects, personal learning, and academic research. When you run inference without network source disclosure, embed SMILE in a proprietary product, or equip a commercial team, our standard tiers have upfront pricing.

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Zero Copyleft DisclosurePerpetual OEM OptionBundled Studio Seats12-Month IP IndemnityCritical & High CVE SLAs

Priced by how you deploy

Commercial licensing tiers

Deploy on Your Servers Serve + Core + 5 Studio Seats

Production Runtime

For operating SMILE Serve Engine and Core Engine on your own servers or private cloud to train and serve ML, ONNX, and LLMs without copyleft disclosure.

$12,000 / year

Includes up to 4 production server nodes ($250 / node / mo) + 5 free Agent Studio seats. Additional server nodes $250 / node / month, billed annually.

  • Covers both Serve Engine & internal Core Engine: build and update models in Java/Scala/Kotlin and serve .sml, .onnx, and LLMs in production
  • Zero AGPLv3 §13 or GPLv3 obligation to offer source code to network users or internal consumers
  • Includes 5 commercial seats of SMILE Agent Studio ($5,700/yr value; additional seats $95/seat/mo)
  • Run all official container flavors (latest-micro, latest-native, latest, latest-gpu) plus dev, staging, failover, and DR copies
  • Guaranteed Critical & High CVE resolution windows and 12-month capped IP indemnity
Serve Engine Commercial License 1.0 →
Site-Wide & Distributed Edge 100–5,000+ Edge Nodes

Enterprise & Edge Fleet

For banks, payment networks, telematics fleets, and sovereign systems deploying across hundreds or thousands of autonomous edge gateways or multiple application lines.

From $50,000 / year

Volume edge-node pricing (scaling from $50 down to $10 / edge node / mo by fleet size) + site-wide OEM rights & 25 Agent Studio seats ($28,500/yr value).

  • High-volume Edge Runtime licensing for branch servers, POS/ATM terminals, vehicle gateways, and air-gapped nodes (0.2 GB micro image, ~80 MiB idle RAM)
  • Multi-Application & site-wide Core Engine OEM rights plus 25 commercial Agent Studio seats included
  • Optional $15,000 30-day Turnkey Pilot on your nodes and models (100% credited toward your annual contract)
  • In-process local TreeSHAP and KernelSHAP audit trails, on-device model retraining, and atomic offline model hot-swapping
  • Priority Critical/High CVE SLAs, architecture review, and 12-month capped IP indemnity
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Included with Runtime, OEM & Enterprise · Or Standalone

SMILE Agent Studio Team

Agent Studio is bundled free with Production Runtime (5 seats), OEM Distribution (10 seats), and Enterprise (25 seats), and is free for personal, academic, and non-production evaluation under BSL 1.1. Need extra seats or a standalone commercial team license without Serve or Core? Exported .sml and .onnx models remain 100% yours.

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$95 / seat / mo · or $995 / seat / yr paid annually (5-seat standalone min)

Open Source & Academic

Community Edition

Use Core Engine under GPLv3 for open-source projects. Run Serve Engine under AGPLv3 when complying with network source disclosure, and evaluate Agent Studio free of charge for non-production use under BSL 1.1.

$0 / forever
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Scenario guide

Which tier matches your architecture?

You never need to buy separate licenses just to train a model in Core Engine and serve it in Serve Engine. Pick the tier that matches where your code runs and who receives it:

Your Use Case & Architecture Open Source / BSL Route ($0) Recommended Commercial Tier
1. Internal in-process JVM service only
(e.g., HFT, AdTech bidding, or internal batch scoring; never distributed to third parties, no Serve Engine)		 Permitted under GPLv3. Running Core Engine internally without distributing binaries does not trigger GPLv3 source disclosure. Production Runtime ($12,000/yr) or OEM ($25,000 one-time) — chosen when corporate compliance requires a non-GPL SBOM license, 12-month IP indemnification, Critical CVE SLAs, and bundled Agent Studio seats.
2. Serving ONNX, Vision, or Local LLMs/SLMs over a network
(Deploying smile-serve containers for internal or customer-facing APIs)		 AGPLv3 §13 requires offering the Corresponding Source of the service to network users. Production Runtime ($12,000/yr). Removes AGPLv3 §13 network source disclosure for up to 4 production nodes (+$250/node/mo above 4) and includes 5 Agent Studio seats.
3. End-to-end SMILE ML + Serving
(Building/updating .sml models with Core Engine & Agent Studio and serving them on Serve Engine)		 Subject to AGPLv3 §13 on the serving nodes and BSL 1.1 non-production limits on Agent Studio. Production Runtime ($12,000/yr). One subscription covers both internal Core Engine model training, Serve Engine production nodes, and 5 commercial Agent Studio seats.
4. Shipping a proprietary product, SDK, appliance, or client binary
(Distributing SMILE object code to external customers)		 Requires releasing your entire application's source code under GPLv3. OEM & Embedded Distribution ($25,000 one-time). Perpetual license for 1 Application line (up to 10 devs) + Year 1 Maintenance & 10 Studio seats. Optional 20% ($5,000/yr) Maintenance renewal.
5. Distributed branch, POS, ATM, or vehicle edge fleets
(100 to 5,000+ autonomous edge gateways with local TreeSHAP / KernelSHAP & hot-reload)		 Subject to GPLv3 conveyance and AGPLv3 §13 network rules on every deployed gateway. Enterprise & Edge Fleet (From $50,000/yr). Volume per-node edge runtime licensing ($50 down to $10/node/mo), site-wide OEM rights, 25 Studio seats, and an optional $15k 30-day Pilot.
6. Standalone Agent Studio commercial team
(Using Studio's coding & AutoML agents in production without Serve or Core)		 Free under BSL 1.1 for personal, academic, and non-production evaluation. Converts to AGPLv3 after 4 years. Agent Studio Team ($95/seat/mo or $995/seat/yr). Included free with Runtime (5 seats), OEM (10 seats), & Enterprise (25 seats), or available standalone (5-seat minimum).

Procurement & legal

Read the exact contracts before you talk to us

We publish our standard commercial agreements directly on this site—no NDA required.

  • Serve Engine Commercial License 1.0 → Used for Production Runtime subscriptions. Governs SMILE Serve Engine (and bundled internal Core Engine model execution and Agent Studio seats under §3.5) in self-hosted production environments. Removes AGPLv3 Section 13 network source-offer obligations (§3.1), includes 90-day post-expiry migration rights (§5.2), and commits to support response and CVE resolution windows (§6).
  • Core Engine Commercial License 1.0 → Used for OEM & Embedded Distribution licenses. Governs base, core, nlp, deep, plot, kotlin, and scala. Grants a perpetual license to embed and distribute in object code (§3.1, §5.1) paired with renewable annual Maintenance for updates, Critical/High CVE resolution windows, and bundled Agent Studio seats (§5.2, §5.4, §6.3).
  • Agent Studio Commercial License 1.0 → Incorporated for bundled and standalone Agent Studio seats. Governs Commercial Production Use per Authorized User (§3.1–3.2) and explicitly confirms that all projects, notebooks, models, and exported model packages belong 100% to the Customer with zero source disclosure required (§3.6, §4.2).
  • Standard IP Indemnity & Liability Cap All three agreements include a third-party copyright and issued-patent defense and indemnity (§9), subject to standard exclusions and a mutual aggregate liability cap equal to the fees paid in the preceding twelve (12) months (§10.1).
  • Supported Versions & Lifecycle Policy → SMILE actively maintains security updates for 7.x (Java 25), 4.4.x (Java 21 LTS), and 3.1.x (Java 8 / 11 / 17 LTS). Release lines 5.x and 6.x have reached End-of-Life (EoL). Guaranteed 24-hour Critical/High CVE resolution SLAs and security backports are included with active Production Runtime, OEM Maintenance, and Enterprise subscriptions.

Fast procurement

Ready to license or scope a deployment?

Tell us which tier fits your workload—Production Runtime ($12k/yr), OEM & Embedded Distribution ($25k one-time + optional 20% annual maintenance), standalone Agent Studio seats, or an Enterprise Edge Fleet—and we will return a clean Order Form referencing the exact Version 1.0 agreement above.