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Today there is one edition you can run: Community — free, no license key. A paid Professional edition is coming; see below to get notified.

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Community — free, keyless, no expiry

The Community edition is free to run and requires no license key — nothing to register, and offline and air-gapped installs keep working indefinitely. You stay current via the optional update notifier, not a hard expiry. Community includes:
  • Kafka management — topics, consumer groups, Connect, Schema Registry, ksqlDB, brokers.
  • Streams topology builder — design, validate, export/import, and deploy.
  • Single-account login — username/password.
Deployed streams are ephemeral — they run normally but do not survive an application restart (durable, auto-restored deployments are a Professional capability, below). Your work is never at risk: topology designs export and import freely, and stream processing state lives in Kafka itself, so a redeployed topology resumes where it left off. Ephemeral deployments are labeled as such in the UI at deploy time.

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Professional — coming

A paid Professional edition is in the works. It will include everything in Community, plus:
  • Durable stream deployments — deployed topologies persist and are automatically restored when Alginte restarts.
  • OIDC / single sign-on login with a user allowlist.
  • Priority support.
It is not yet available. Want to know the moment it is? Join the release list — one email per release, and the Professional launch will be announced there first. What Community includes today is not taken away as paid capabilities ship. Licensing will follow the same ethos as the rest of the product: Alginte warns, it never bricks a running instance. Alginte is a closed-source product distributed as a Docker image and a standalone JAR; the source is private, while bug reports and discussion are public on the community hub.

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