Licensing

Trial vs. commercial

To get a trial license, you have to add your email during download. The trial license is valid for 30 days. After that, you can purchase a commercial license key for continued use.

Activating a key

Set the license key and deployment ID in config.yaml:

license:
  key: "<your-license-token>"          # or key_file: "/path/to/token"
  deployment_id: "<your-registration-email>"

key and key_file are mutually exclusive — use whichever fits your deployment (pasting the token directly, or mounting it as a file/secret). deployment_id must match the email you used to obtain the trial or commercial key exactly, or the license is treated as invalid.

Or activate via environment variables (handy for Docker/Compose)

docker run -p 8080:8080 \
  -e ANON_LICENSE__KEY="<your-license-token>" \
  -e ANON_LICENSE__DEPLOYMENT_ID="<your-registration-email>" \
  anonymixdev/anonymix:latest

What happens at expiry

After a trial key expires (plus a short grace period), the protected routes — /v1/anonymize* in REST mode, or the forwarding route in proxy mode — start returning 401 until a valid key is supplied. /healthz, /readyz and /metrics keep working the whole time, so the instance stays diagnosable and orchestrators don't kill a pod that's simply waiting on renewal.

During the grace window, responses carry X-License-Status: grace and X-License-Expires headers, and the same status is included in the /healthz//readyz JSON body — so you can alert on an approaching expiry before it becomes an outage.