Safety is free. Scale is Enterprise.
Two editions built from one codebase. The command is fox either way, and moving between them never touches your data.
Standard and Enterprise
| Capability | Standard | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Branching, gateway, backups, point-in-time restore | Yes | Yes |
| Blackbox: the hash-chained record of every schema change | Yes | Yes |
| Agent guardrails: TRUNCATE blocked, row limits, no DELETE without WHERE | Yes | Yes |
| Imports from Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB and files | Yes | Yes |
| Checking anchors: fox blackbox integrity, fox-verify | Yes | Yes |
| The security log and its anchors | Yes | Yes |
| Reading rules, checking a statement, listing and rejecting requests | Yes | Yes |
| Realtime row-level change feed | — | Yes |
| Writing signed Blackbox anchors on a schedule | — | Yes |
| Writing policy rules and impact analysis | — | Yes |
| Asking for and applying change requests | — | Yes |
| Blackbox export, the compliance bundle | — | Yes |
| ETL pipelines (experimental) | — | Yes |
Standard is AGPL-3.0 and free. Enterprise is source-available under a commercial licence, licensed per machine.
Why safety stays free
Checking is never paid
An independent verifier you have to buy is not much of an independent verifier. Anyone who anchored before upgrading can always check the anchors they hold.
Paid means new capability
Enterprise adds things Standard never had. Nothing you rely on in Standard is ever taken away to sell it back.
Switch editions in place
The upgrade shows the Enterprise licence and asks you to accept it before downloading anything, checks the signed release, and replaces fox on both sides of the VM. Databases, accounts, keys and settings are not touched.
$ fox upgrade --edition enterprise $ fox upgrade --edition standard
Licensing questions
No. Connecting over the Postgres wire protocol is not a derivative work, and the client SDKs are Apache-2.0. The AGPL applies only if you modify FoxByte itself and offer it to others as a service.
The Enterprise build behaves exactly like Standard. Your data and the free features keep working.
Yes. fox upgrade --edition standard switches back at the version you have.
Not yet. FoxByte runs on your own machines today.
Start free. Upgrade when you need it.
Standard has everything you need to branch, record and protect.
$ curl -fsSL https://get.thefoxbyte.com/install.sh | sh