Plans & Pricing

If maintenance, security, support, and/or compliance are essential to your business, our Enterprise offer is likely most appropriate. Please contact our experts to discuss your needs or let us give you a live demonstration.

If you have a team of 2 to 20 developers working in a commercial setting, Team tier is your best option.

If you are using the ActiveState Platform for personal use, then Free tier is most appropriate.

If you are part of an open source project that wants to use the Platform, please see our Open Source Early Access program.

Simply put, Active Runtimes is the number of instances of software from the ActiveState Platform that are run in a 24 hour period. For example, if you’ve built a Python distribution using the ActiveState Platform and you’re running a script with it, that would count as one Active Runtime for a period of 24 hours.

For more details, please refer to the ActiveState Platform Terms of Service (Free & Team Tier).

A project on the ActiveState Platform is the configuration of a specific Perl, Python or Tcl environment, including the version of the programming language, the packages required, and all of their dependencies. As a Platform user, you can create your own custom projects that contain just the specific packages you need. All projects at the Free tier are public projects, which means other Platform users can view the configuration. Private projects are available at Team tier and above. Access to private projects is controlled by the project owner.

Learn more in our Platform documentation.

Individual users can freely create, install, work with and deploy to production any of the open source language environments offered by the ActiveState Platform to a maximum of 5 active runtimes.  An active runtime is an instance of software from the ActiveState Platform that is run in any 24 hour period. For example, you might concurrently run:

• A single instance of V1 of your app in production
• A single instance of V1.1 of your app in your CI/CD pipeline
• A development environment in which you are currently making changes to your app

For a total of 3 active runtimes.

Teams of developers should check out our Plans and Pricing page to find a subscription that best suits their needs.

Important: Community Editions of ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl may no longer be used for development use for free. Please read our Important Changes To ActiveState’s Licensing and Pricing Model in 2021 blog post for details.

ActiveState provides a wide range of support, maintenance and licensing options for both recent and older versions of Python and Perl, including EOL versions such as Python 2. This list is constantly changing as newer versions are released. For the latest, up-to-date information, please refer to:

• Perl versions
• Python versions

In general, access to older versions is only provided with a Team or Enterprise Tier subscription, while access to EOL versions is only provided on the Enterprise Tier.

We are phasing out our Community Edition releases of ActivePerl, ActivePython and ActiveTcl. For more details, read our Important Changes To ActiveState’s Licensing And Pricing Model In 2021 blog post. 

Instead, ActiveState is replacing them with the ActiveState Platform ecosystem, which provides users with a secure open source supply chain and advanced package management capabilities. Here’s why.

We needed a licensing and pricing model that better fit the needs of modern enterprises. For a detailed answer, please read our Important Changes To ActiveState’s Licensing and Pricing Model in 2021 blog post.

The Coder, Team, and Business Tiers were merged into one tier with a new price and set of benefits.

Any subscriptions you have will expire at the end of their renewal period. At that point in time, your account will be downgraded to the Free Tier unless you purchase a Team or Enterprise Tier subscription.

If you have an existing subscription, you will continue to be eligible for support until the subscription expires. After this period (or if you do not have a paid subscription), you may receive support on the Komodo forums at https://community.komodoide.com.