Licensing

How to activate and manage your CPI Studio license.

How it works

Purchase a plan on our pricing page
Receive your license key via email (format: CPIS-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX)
Set the key as an environment variable on your CF deployment
Restage — the app validates on startup and unlocks your tier

Setting the license key

cf set-env cpi-developer-studio LICENSE_KEY "CPIS-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"
cf restage cpi-developer-studio

The app contacts our license server on startup and then every hour to validate. If our server is unreachable, a 72-hour grace period ensures uninterrupted usage.

Trial mode

Deploy without a license key and CPI Studio runs in trial mode for 14 days. Trial includes:

1 CPI tenant
Core features (editor, logs, runtime, lint)
No AI features, audit log, or landscape workflow

Tier limits

Feature	Trial	Starter	Pro	Enterprise
Tenants	1	3	10	Unlimited
AI Features	✗	✗	✓	✓
Audit Log	✗	✗	✓	✓
Landscape	✗	✗	✓	✓

Upgrading

Click the Upgrade Licence button in CPI Studio (Settings → Licence card) or visit our pricing page. After purchase, update your environment variable with the new key and restage.

Redeployment

Each license key is bound to a deployment fingerprint on first use. If you redeploy to a different Cloud Foundry instance, the key will automatically rebind (up to 3 times per month). Contact support if you need more changes.

Offline mode: For air-gapped or development environments, set LICENSE_OFFLINE=true to skip validation. This grants enterprise-tier access but is not intended for production use.