The Community tier is free forever — download the binary, install your MCP client, done. It includes the full core engine: vector storage, hybrid search, knowledge graphs, context management, memory consolidation, RAG indexing, the skill library (search & retrieve), and the bulk of the 100+ MCP tools. No account or registration required for the free download.

Phorvec uses dual-track pricing. The MCP Dev-Tool track (Community, MCP Pro, MCP Max) is flat monthly pricing for individual developers and small teams. The Infrastructure track (Team, Enterprise) is per-project pricing for organizations running phorvec across multiple production deployments.

MCP Pro ($19/mo) unlocks individual power-user features: agent testing suites with YAML scenarios, baselines, regression checks, agent benchmarking, and skill-library publishing (publish, deprecate, sync, ingest). Community already includes skill search & retrieval — Pro adds the ability to publish back.

MCP Max ($39/mo) unlocks full team coordination: team memory with FULL, PROTECTED, and ISOLATED sharing modes, cross-agent conflict detection (regex-based negation, severity levels, no LLM overhead), cross-agent search, team feed/dispatch/workflows, and team personas with skill tagging.

Move to Team ($49/project/mo) when you want a single centrally hosted phorvec instance that your whole team connects to, instead of every developer running their own local binary. Team includes shared team sync — every team member reads and writes the same memory state in real time, with no drift between developer machines. One license covers the project; you pay per project instead of per individual.

Enterprise adds fleet-scale operations and the deployment rights regulated/embedded customers need. Fleet intelligence: Divergent Recombination Engine (cross-agent insight discovery), geometric failure recovery, compute governance via the energy ledger, agent health monitoring across 6 EMA-tracked metrics, and org-wide pattern sharing. Security & ops: append-only JSONL audit trails with correlation IDs and structured error chains, secret detection, RBAC, storage repair. Plus a separate commercial license that grants air-gapped operation with offline-verifiable license files, embedded deployment in drones/vehicles/robots/edge devices, OEM redistribution, and perpetual air-gapped fallback after subscription end. SLA-backed support (1h / 4h / 24h tiers) and onboarding & integration engineering round it out.

A project is a directory where phorvec stores agent data — identified by a nexus.json file. If you have a monorepo, that's one project. If you have separate repos for separate services, each is a project. The MCP Dev-Tool tiers (Community / MCP Pro / MCP Max) bill per individual; Team and Enterprise bill per project.

The MCP Dev-Tool track (Pro/Max) is flat monthly because it's individual tooling. The Infrastructure track (Team/Enterprise) is per-project because the value scales with how many agent systems you run, not how many humans are on your team — adding a new developer costs nothing.

Yes. Community and paid tiers all use local ONNX Runtime for embeddings — no API calls, no data leaves your machine. Agent knowledge transfers via .vlbrain bundles (signed, file-based) without any network connectivity. For commercial air-gapped deployments (defence, automotive, industrial), the Enterprise commercial license grants the offline-verifiable License File V1 format with host binding (VIN, device serial, hostname) and a perpetual fallback after subscription end.

Phorvec works with any MCP-compatible client — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, and more. The server supports stdio (default), SSE, and HTTP with bearer-token authentication, so any client that speaks one of those transports can connect.

Download a pre-built binary for your platform from phorvec.com/download. There's a binary for macOS (Intel + Apple Silicon), Linux x64, and Windows x64. We don't ship via pip, cargo, brew, or any other package manager — the binaries are signed (Ed25519) and a SHA-256 manifest is published alongside each release so you can verify integrity. Drop the binary on your PATH, point your MCP client at it, and you're running.

No. Phorvec is closed-source, distributed only as a signed binary. The entire MCP server (100+ tools, including DRE, geometric failure recovery, energy ledger, and the rest) ships as a compiled binary with no source disclosure. Binaries are tier-separated at build time — paid features physically aren't present in lower-tier binaries.

Prices are displayed in USD for international clarity, but payments are processed in South African Rand (ZAR) at the prevailing exchange rate at the time of purchase. Your bank may apply a small currency conversion fee.

Yes. All paid tiers are available at a 20% discount when billed annually. Contact us for Enterprise annual pricing.

Unlike Pinecone, Weaviate, or Qdrant, phorvec is purpose-built for AI agent memory — not general-purpose vector search. It's local-first, one-file-per-agent, and includes agent-specific features like team memory, conflict detection, knowledge synthesis, audit trails, and compute governance that general vector DBs don't offer.