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The very first release was under a dual AGPL/commercial license. This was bad. It prevents open-source developers from building on top of it, and it discourages

The very first release was under a dual AGPL/commercial license. This was bad. It prevents open-source developers from building on top of it, and it discourages people from getting in touch. We bootstrapped the company by doing consulting, and now we're releasing products adjacent to spaCy. We've had a great response to our annotation tool Prodigy, which is currently in free beta: https://prodi.gy https://prodi.gy . The license model for Prodigy is pretty simple: permanent per-seat licenses, with pricing that compares pretty favourably to other developer tools. We're looking forward to releasing some other offerings alongside spaCy. We don't like to say too much because timelines are tough --- we don't want to release something half-finished to stick to a schedule. The Explosion AI mailing list is the best way to stay in the loop.

JustFinishedBSG 9y ago
> The license model for Prodigy is pretty simple: permanent per-seat licenses, with pricing that compares pretty favourably to other developer tools. Can you be more precise ? Because I don't want to invest time in a tool to discover that I can't afford it months later ( having a research student budget and all, i.e my "budget" is my own money ). :(
- syllogism 9y ago
  The license for an individual developer will be a few hundred dollars --- sorry for the vagueness. We'll be ready to release official pricing soon. For research students, we think your institution should be covering you! We'll be offering an academic subscription, so research institutions can pay a yearly flat fee to have all staff and students covered.