title: Pricing description: Pricing for phorvec — Community free through Enterprise. Closed-source binary, tier-separated at build time.

Pricing

Phorvec has two pricing tracks so each kind of customer pays for what they actually use:

MCP Dev-Tool track — flat monthly, per individual. Each developer installs and runs phorvec locally on their own machine. For individuals and small teams working inside Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, or any other MCP client.
Infrastructure track — per project. One centrally hosted phorvec instance, shared by the whole team. For organisations running phorvec as production agent infrastructure.

Start free on Community, upgrade along whichever track fits.

Prices shown in USD. Billed in ZAR at the current exchange rate via Paystack.

Community — Free

Full core engine. Closed-source binary, free tier. No account required.

Everything you need to run phorvec as an individual developer:

100+ MCP tools
Vector engine with hybrid search (vector + BM25 + RRF)
Knowledge graphs with entity extraction
Context management — branching, snapshots, timeline, half-life decay
Memory consolidation and garbage collection
RAG indexing for files and directories
Vector quantization (Float32 / Int8 / Binary)
Local ONNX embeddings (no API calls, works air-gapped)
Secret detection at write time
One file per agent (portable .avdb)
Bug reports via GitHub Issues (no SLA)

Download free — no account required for the Community binary.

MCP Dev-Tool Track (flat monthly, per individual)

MCP Pro — $19/mo

Solo productivity: agent testing, skill-library publishing, baselines.

Everything in Community, plus:

Agent testing suite — YAML scenarios, baselines, regression detection, IR metrics (precision, recall, F1)
Agent benchmarking — side-by-side comparisons
Skill library publishing — publish, deprecate, sync, ingest
Email support, 24-hour response
Early access to new features

MCP Max — $39/mo

Small teams sharing memory between agents. Each developer still runs their own local phorvec.

Everything in MCP Pro, plus:

Team memory between agents — FULL, PROTECTED, ISOLATED sharing modes
Cross-agent conflict detection (regex negation patterns, severity levels, no LLM overhead)
Cross-agent search, dispatch, and feed
Team workflows
Team personas with skill tagging

Note on team memory in MCP Max: this lets agents on different developers' machines share what they know, but each developer still installs their own phorvec binary on their own laptop. For a centrally hosted phorvec that the whole team connects to as a shared deployment, see Team below.

Infrastructure Track (per project, centrally hosted)

Team — $49 / project / month

A single hosted phorvec instance for your whole team.

Run phorvec on infrastructure you control (or that we host for you under contract) and have every developer's MCP client connect to the same shared instance. One license covers the team; you pay per project, not per individual.

Everything in MCP Max, plus:

Centrally hosted deployment — run phorvec on shared infrastructure with all developers connecting via the HTTP / SSE transport
Shared team sync — every team member sees the same memory state in real time; no per-developer .avdb files drifting out of sync
Single license, whole team — license each production project once instead of paying per individual
Priority email support (next business day)
Quarterly product roadmap input

Enterprise — Custom Pricing

For production agent fleets, regulated industries, and embedded deployment.

Everything in Team, plus:

Multi-agent inference

Cross-agent insight discovery (DRE — Divergent Recombination Engine)
Geometric failure recovery with repair vectors (repair_search, failure_summary)
Compute governance (energy ledger, per-agent typed budgets, denial counters)
Agent health monitoring (6 EMA-tracked metrics, fleet_health)
Org-wide pattern sharing (org_pattern_submit, org_pattern_search, org_pattern_status)
Retention management (retention_status, retention_sweep, storage_repair, storage_verify)

Security and operations

Audit log readable via security_audit
RBAC + API key authentication (Argon2-hashed)
Path-based access control on filesystem-touching tools

Deployment rights (under separate commercial license)

Embedded deployment — drones, vehicles, robots, industrial edge devices
Air-gapped operation with offline-verifiable license files
OEM redistribution bundled with your hardware product

Support

SLA-backed support — 1 hour / 4 hour / 24 hour response tiers
Onboarding and custom integration engineering

Execution is via a signed Order Form referencing the commercial licence agreement. Email licensing@phorvec.com to begin — we'll send the current agreement and schedule a technical discovery call.

FAQ

Can I use phorvec commercially on the Community plan? Yes — Community use, including internal commercial use within your team, is free under the standard EULA. What requires a commercial licence is embedded deployment (drones, vehicles, robots, edge devices), air-gapped operation, or OEM redistribution of phorvec as part of a product you ship.

Is the source code public? No. Phorvec is closed-source, distributed only as a pre-built signed binary. Tier separation is enforced at build time — paid features physically aren't present in lower-tier binaries.

What counts as a "project"? A project is a directory where phorvec stores agent data, identified by a nexus.json file. A monorepo is one project; separate services in separate repos are separate projects.

MCP Max vs Team — which one do I want?

Choose MCP Max ($39/mo per individual) if each developer wants their own local phorvec binary. Agents on different developers' machines can still share memory; the per-developer binary just syncs to that shared memory.
Choose Team ($49/project/mo) if you want one phorvec deployed centrally — on your infrastructure or hosted for you — that the whole team connects to. One license, one shared memory state, no drift between developer machines.

Why per-project on the Infrastructure track? On the Infrastructure track, phorvec is infrastructure, not a seat-based SaaS. Value scales with how many agent systems you run, not how many humans you employ. Per-project pricing means adding a new developer to an existing project costs nothing.

Do you offer annual billing discounts? Annual billing at 20% off is available for MCP Pro, MCP Max, and Team. Contact us for Enterprise annual pricing.

How do I get started with Enterprise? Email licensing@phorvec.com with a brief description of your use case and deployment profile (number of devices, air-gapped or connected, expected fleet size). We'll schedule a technical discovery call and send a custom quote.

Does phorvec ship with a web dashboard or REST API? Not in v0.1.0 — phorvec ships as a single binary that speaks the Model Context Protocol over stdio, SSE, or HTTP with bearer-token auth. There is no separate dashboard, REST API, or TypeScript SDK in the current release. If you need browser-based memory editing or a non-MCP HTTP API for your fleet, talk to us at licensing@phorvec.com about roadmap fit.