Flat fee. No cut of your sales.

Yes. The free tier includes the full protection pipeline, all security layers, and all platform targets. You get up to 10 end-user licenses and 10 free downloads per app to use however you'd like: development, testing, or early distribution. End-user licenses issued on the free tier are valid for 30 days. A one-time $0.97 identity verification is required before your first protected build can be downloaded. It is paid to our verification partner, never at signup, and never again. When you're ready for production, upgrade for unlimited builds and licenses with no expiry.

Strong protection is valuable to the wrong people too: the same tools that protect a legitimate app could, in the wrong hands, hide malware from analysis. A one-time $0.97 identity verification means every developer who downloads a protected build from PyLocket has proved who they are, and uploads are checked for malware before they are protected. It is not a code signature: you sign your protected app with your own certificate, and PyLocket delivers the signed copy you upload. You pay it once, and it covers you for life. It is charged by our verification partner, not by PyLocket, and never at signup: no card is needed to create an account.

When you subscribe to PyLocket, you lock in your subscription rate for life. As we grow and add features, the subscription price will rise for new sign-ups, but your rate stays exactly where you started. Subscribing today means paying today's price years from now, no matter how much PyLocket has grown.

Never. We charge a flat platform subscription plus $4 per license you issue. Your revenue is yours: sell a license for $50 or $5,000 and our cut is the same $4. We don't take a percentage, ever.

Once, when a license is issued to a customer: a sale through your checkout, a redeemed code, a direct download link, or a license your store creates through our API. Device activations, re-downloads, and free-trial licenses never trigger it.

Pro is billed yearly so you can lock in your rate. The $4 per license is charged as you go.

No. Trial and free-tier licenses are never billed. If a test license is ever charged by mistake, support credits it.

Yes. Your apps, builds and licenses carry over; free-tier licenses stop expiring once you upgrade.

When you cancel, your subscription remains active until the end of the current billing period. After that, a 30-day grace period begins during which your customers' existing licenses continue to work normally. Once the grace period expires, end-user licenses become invalid and activation will fail. You cannot create new protected builds or issue new licenses after cancellation. If you resubscribe before the grace period ends, all licenses are restored automatically. After your subscription ends you have 45 days to resubscribe at your original rate; after that, the current rate applies.