Editions
Community needs no licence key
Both run on your own hardware, on the same source. Community is the whole workspace with no caps and no licence key: chat, assistants, automations, knowledge bases, the privacy shield and every built-in integration. Enterprise adds the specialist modules and the identity features a larger organisation runs into, and it is priced per deployment because deployments differ.
Start with Community Talk to us about EnterpriseSide by side
Every row below is what the code does, not what a sales sheet says. Where both columns read the same, that is the point.
Read as a list of what is withheld, this is a short list. That is deliberate: the things a small team needs are in the free edition, and the paid edition is for the modules and the identity plumbing that only start to matter at size.
| Community | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Nothing. No licence key, no account, no checkout. | Priced per deployment - talk to us. |
| Where it runs | Your own hardware, air-gapped if you want. | Your own hardware, air-gapped if you want. |
| People | No user limit. | No user limit. |
| Assistants, messages, knowledge bases | No limit on any of them. | No limit on any of them. |
| Built-in integrations | All of them, including Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. | All of them. |
| MCP servers | Connect any MCP server by hand. | Same, plus the in-app catalogue for installing them. |
| Automations and routines | The full builder, scheduling and execution. | The same builder. |
| Skills and knowledge bases | Included, with cited answers. | Included. |
| Privacy Shield | Detection on your own hardware across all 21 categories, with block or redact. | Adds tokenise-and-restore, the web-search guard, and holding personal data back from outbound tools. |
| Single sign-on | Nextcloud. | Google and Microsoft Entra ID, with automatic group sync. |
| Meeting notes and transcription | Not included. | Included, including speaker recognition. |
| Notebooks and Legal Studio | Not included. | Included. |
| App Studio | Not included. | Included. |
| Support inbox | Not included. | Included. |
| Website builder and its analytics | Not included. | Included. |
| Compliance Center | Not included. | Included - and still in development. |
| Usage and monitoring | The overview: spend, calls, tokens, per model and per person. | Adds the safety, egress, termination and feedback reporting. |
| Licence checks | None to make. | Verified offline against a bundled public key. No phone-home, so an air-gapped install keeps working. |
The same either way
There is no seat cap, no message cap, no assistant cap and no knowledge-base cap in either edition — and that is a property of the code rather than a pledge. The usage-limit checks return immediately unless the deployment is our cloud, so on your own server there is nothing to hit. Growing your team is not a billing event.
The built-in connectors are not held back for a paid tier. Neither is the automation builder, and neither is the privacy shield.
Enterprise is a licence key against the same code you already have. There is no separate build, and nothing to migrate to.
A key is verified offline against a public key that ships with the software; the refresh endpoint is opt-in and empty by default. An air-gapped installation activates and keeps running with no route to the internet at all, which is the only arrangement worth having if the reason you are self-hosting is that the data cannot leave.
The part most licence pages leave out
The install falls back to Community and keeps running. Nothing is deleted, nothing is locked, and no screen holds your work hostage: the specialist modules stop opening and say why, and everything else — your assistants, automations, knowledge bases, conversations — carries on exactly as before. If you renew, they come back. We would rather write that down than let you discover the answer at the worst possible moment, and it is also the honest consequence of an offline check: there is no kill switch to press.
And what to send us
Because the deployments genuinely differ, and a number on a page would be a guess dressed up as a price. What decides it is how many people will use it, which modules you actually need, and whether you want help with the installation or just the key. Tell us those three things and you get a real figure rather than a range. If Community already covers you — and for a lot of teams it does — we will say so instead of selling you a key you do not need.
Community, in numbers
FAQ
No. It does not expire, it is not time-limited, and it does not degrade. It needs no licence key and no account with us — you download it, run it, and we never find out. The modules listed in the right-hand column above are what a key adds; everything else is yours permanently.
Source-available, and we would rather be precise than borrow the word. The server and frontend are published under the Sustainable Use License v1.0: read it, modify it, run it internally without paying — what you may not do is resell Bee Flow as your own hosted service. It is not an OSI-approved open-source licence. We are working toward AGPL-3.0-or-later; today the Nextcloud connector is the only part that carries it.
Two things, both from the licence rather than from the code. You may not offer Bee Flow to third parties as a hosted or managed service that competes with us, and you may not strip out the licensing notices. Running it internally for your own organisation, modifying it, and sharing it free of charge for non-commercial purposes are all explicitly allowed.
No. It is a signed token verified offline against a public key bundled with the software. There is a refresh endpoint for monthly licences, but it is opt-in and unset by default, and even when it is on a failure gives you a ten-day grace period rather than an immediate lockout.
Yes. It is the same code and the same database — you paste a key into the admin screen and the modules appear. There is no migration, no export and no second installation, and going back is just as uneventful.
It does not, directly. This page is about the two editions of the software you run yourself. The hosted version on beeflow.nl is a subscription with its own plans, where the monthly price is also your monthly AI budget — the pricing page has the current plans, generated from our live billing configuration.
You get the source, the documentation and the issue tracker. What Enterprise adds is a direct line to us — the specifics are part of the conversation about your deployment rather than a tier on a page, because pretending otherwise would mean publishing a commitment we had not agreed with you.
Describe the team, the modules you think you need and where the data has to live. If Community already covers it, that is the answer you will get.
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