Choose a Plan That Fits Your Needs

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.

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 1 active runtime. An active runtime is an instance of software from the ActiveState Platform that is run in any 24 hour period. For example:

• If you’ve deployed your application in containers, at some point in a 24 hour period you may have as many as 15 instances of your application spun up to handle load.
• If you’ve deployed a CI/CD solution that runs tests in parallel, you may have as many as 10 instances of your application running concurrently.
• If you have a team of 10 developers working on your project, you would require at least 10 active runtimes, one for each development environment that is being worked with.

This would total 35 active runtimes altogether, however, you would require additional active runtimes if:

• Developers are running unit tests on their local machines
• Various scripts are being run in dev, test or production etc.

You may want to contact us to help you determine the number of active runtimes you require.

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.

If you subscribed to Team Tier prior to July 22, 2021, it will expire at the end of your renewal period. At that point, you can purchase the current Team Tier and enjoy more flexibility and security than before.

• 3 Active Runtimes compared to just 1 node previously
• Ability to customize runtimes
• Access to multiple languages, language versions and operating systems
• Vulnerability (CVE) reporting and remediation
• Better integration with continuous integration (CI) systems

If you subscribed to Business Tier prior to July 22, 2021, it will expire at the end of your renewal period. At that point, you can choose between our current Team and Enterprise Tiers and get more flexibility and security than before.

Team Tier provides:

• 3 Active Runtimes with the flexibility to scale up to 150 Active Runtimes
• Access to older language versions, i.e. ActivePython (3.x to 3.5, 2.4 to 2.6) and ActivePerl (5.8 to 5.14)
• Private projects

Enterprise Tier provides:

• 250+ Active Runtimes
• Extended support for older versions, including 32-bit and Python 2
• Advanced software supply chain security, offline installers and other add-ons