The software licensing platform for SaaS, AI, and desktop software
License, enforce, and monetize your software from one cloud-native platform — across SaaS, desktop, on-premises, and air-gapped deployments. Support any model, change pricing and packaging without a release, and skip months of in-house engineering.
Everything you need to license and monetize software
One platform to define models, deliver licenses, enforce entitlements, and track usage — across every product and deployment.
License Lifecycle Management
Automate provisioning, renewals, upgrades, and transfers — triggered by CRM deals or billing events, with no engineering effort.
Learn about licensingReal-Time Enforcement
Control features, seats, usage limits, and expiration in real time. Entitlements act as feature flags you change without a release.
Explore entitlementsAny Licensing Model
Perpetual, subscription, usage-based, floating, node-locked, and hybrid — combined freely from one platform.
Offline & Air-Gapped
Local License Servers activate and enforce entirely on-premises for dark sites — defense, government, and industrial use cases.
Identity-Based Activation
Swap license keys for SSO activation via Okta, Azure AD, and SAML — users sign in and the platform resolves their entitlements.
CRM & Billing Integration
Connect Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe, and Chargebee so licenses provision and update automatically as deals and subscriptions change.
Usage Analytics
Track utilization, adoption, and consumption across your customer base to find upsell opportunities and churn risk.
Explore analyticsMulti-Product & Multi-Tenant
Manage your whole portfolio from one platform, including complex enterprise agreements spanning products and deployment types.
One platform, every deployment
Whether your software runs in the cloud, on customer workstations, behind a firewall, or on embedded devices — the same licensing works everywhere.
SaaS & Cloud
Real-time entitlement checks at the API layer. Every feature check and usage meter resolves through the platform, so you change packaging without shipping code.
Desktop & Workstation
Lightweight SDKs handle activation, offline caching, and device transfers — supporting node-locked, floating, and subscription models across operating systems.
On-Premises & Air-Gapped
Local License Servers run inside the customer network and operate fully disconnected, with certificate-based activation and encrypted license stores for dark sites.
Hardware & IoT
Lightweight client libraries for resource-constrained devices, device-level binding through hardware identifiers, and batch activation for manufacturing.
Why teams buy instead of building it themselves
Building licensing in-house starts simple and gets complicated fast. Here's why most software companies choose a purpose-built platform.
Time to Market
Ship licensed software in days, not the six to twelve months it takes to build in-house.
Engineering Focus
Stop spending sprints on licensing code and put your team back on your core product.
Model Flexibility
Every model from day one, and pricing or packaging changes without touching code.
Compliance & Security
SOC 2 Type II compliant, with hardware fingerprinting and encrypted license caches built in.
Scalability
Elastic, multi-region, edge-cached validation from hundreds to millions of endpoints.
Total Cost of Ownership
Lower than in-house once you count maintenance, security, DevOps, and on-call.
The licensing platform that scales with you
Zentitle is a cloud-native software licensing platform supporting every model from one service — deployed across SaaS, desktop, on-premises, and air-gapped environments with real-time enforcement, offline support, and CRM integration. Trusted by enterprises like Sony, UiPath, and Zebra with millions of licensed endpoints.
Explore ZentitleAny License Model
Perpetual, subscription, floating, usage-based, and hybrid
Cloud-Native
Deploy anywhere: SaaS, desktop, on-prem, and air-gapped
Real-Time Enforcement
Feature flags and access control without releases
CRM & Billing
Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe, and Chargebee connectors
What is a software licensing platform?
A software licensing platform is a cloud-native service that manages the full lifecycle of software licenses and entitlements — license creation, activation, enforcement, usage tracking, and analytics. Unlike home-grown licensing code or legacy license servers, it's API-first and model-agnostic, supporting perpetual, subscription, usage-based, floating, and hybrid licensing from one place, with the flexibility to change pricing and packaging without redeploying your application.
Types of software licenses
Software licenses range from open source to fully proprietary, each with distinct rights, restrictions, and commercial implications.
Proprietary Licenses
Commercial software under restrictive terms. Source code is closed and usage is governed by an End User License Agreement (EULA).
Open Source Licenses
MIT, GPL, Apache, and BSD grant rights to view, modify, and distribute source. Permissive licenses allow broad reuse; copyleft requires derivatives stay open.
Perpetual Licenses
A one-time purchase granting indefinite usage rights, though support and updates typically require a separate maintenance agreement.
Subscription Licenses
Recurring payment for time-bound access, including updates and support. Access ends when the subscription lapses unless renewed.
Floating / Concurrent
A shared pool used by any authorized user up to a maximum simultaneous count — cost-effective when not everyone needs access at once.
Node-Locked Licenses
Tied to specific hardware through device fingerprinting. Activation binds the license to one machine until deactivated.
Usage-Based Licenses
Pay-per-consumption pricing that scales with API calls, transactions, compute, or tokens — increasingly adopted for AI and cloud-native apps.
Learn about usage meteringFreemium & Trial
Free access with limits. Freemium keeps a permanently free tier with paid upgrades; trials give full access for an evaluation period.
Software licensing platform FAQ
Answers to common questions about choosing and implementing a software licensing platform.
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