Let your team focus on product, not in-house licensing and distribution.
Easily add license key validation, entitlements, and device activation to your business's desktop apps, server applications, on-premise software, and other products using our software licensing API.
"Licensing was planned to make up at least 25% percent of planned dev time for our product so it's awesome to see that we've been able to cut it down to 2.5% with Keygen." – Ranorex
checkSay "no" to hidden maintenance costs. Skip the expensive up-front and ongoing costs of building an in-house licensing solution. Save your business development time and money with our ready-to-go software licensing and distribution API.
checkScale your operations. Effortlessly go from hundreds of users, to thousands, to hundreds of thousands and beyond. We'll handle the infrastructure so your team can focus on product.
checkGet to market faster. Quickly and securely integrate our ready-to-go cloud-based developer APIs into any software product, on any operating system.
Businesses of all sizes face the question of whether to build or buy a product licensing solution. Keygen's developer APIs give you a better option that will save your business time and money.
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Reduce the up-front development and ongoing maintenance costs of an in-house solution.
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Maintain the flexibility of an in-house solution, but leave the hard stuff to us.
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Developer support and integration services by our licensing experts.
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Building blocks for implementing countless licensing models.
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Clear developer documentation covering how to integrate Keygen.
"Using Keygen saved me the trouble of building and maintaining my own licensing server and strategy. It is easy to work with, reliable, and affordable." – GuideGuide
"Saved time, money and made our customers happy. My staff are able to manage licenses with ease." – Anthony O.
FAQs
What licensing models are supported?
Keygen supports almost any licensing model
you can think of. From perpetual licenses, to timed licenses, to node-locked
and floating activations models, to fine-grained entitlements. Our API can be
configured to support your licensing requirements (and if it can't — we'll
work with you to make sure that it can!)
Is data within Keygen secure?
Yes. We take security very seriously and we strive to ensure that the data stored
within Keygen is as secure as possible. All connections to our APIs are encrypted
over TLS, i.e. we encrypt "in transit", our databases are encrypted, i.e. we
encrypt "at rest", and all of our data backups are encrypted.
We strive to provide the highest uptime possible for our customers through
a distributed system hosted on battle-tested infrastructure. You can monitor
uptime and subscribe to updates on our status page.
Does Keygen handle distribution?
Yes! Using Keygen Dist, you can distribute your
software applications to licensed users and even provide automatic upgrades.
Does Keygen handle payments?
No, but you can integrate our API server-side with payment providers, such as Stripe,
or by using webhooks. For low- or no-code payment integrations, you can integrate
Keygen with a payment provider using our Zapier integration.
Does Keygen work offline?
Yes, we support several methods of cryptographically signing or encrypting license keys,
which can be verified in offline environments. For more information, check out our API
reference, or reach out to our
technical support.
"Keygen has flexible license management options backed by great customer support. Keygen is enabling us to very quickly get licensing off the ground for a reasonable price." – Mining & Metals