Free forever, and exactly where the paid line sits
The rule, ratified in the project charter: anything that runs on one laptop against one repo is free forever; money buys hosting, multi-repo aggregation, and human attention.
The paywall sits where the architecture already draws the line — state that leaves your laptop. codeweb Teams is not a withheld feature. It is a different thing: a service.
Everything that runs on your machine
The map, the MCP tools, the hooks, the interactive report, the CLI, the self-hosted CI gate Action, and every language codeweb ever learns.
- No accounts. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to log into.
- No telemetry. codeweb never phones home, and never has.
- No license keys. No trial clock, no seat check, no gated flags.
- MIT-licensed. Fork it, vendor it, ship it inside your own tooling.
codeweb Teams — the service half
What one laptop structurally cannot do for a whole organization: run the gate for you, and hold the history across every repo.
- Hosting. The PR gate as a GitHub App — no workflow YAML, cached base graphs, checks that do not spend your CI minutes.
- Multi-repo aggregation. Cross-repo trends, gate-outcome history, and suppressions shared across the org.
- Human attention. Someone whose job is keeping the gate running for you.
What this contract commits us to
Billing lives only in the hosted service
Accounts, entitlements, seats, and payment state never enter this repository. That is a charter invariant, not a preference, and Teams is a separate hosted service precisely so it survives.
A payment failure degrades one thing
If a subscription lapses, the hosted tier steps down — a grace period, then a return to free behavior with the dashboard read-only. It never breaks your local tooling, and it never breaks your CI.
Nothing free becomes paid later
No local capability moves behind a payment. Everything shipped today stays MIT and free for one person and their agent on their machine — including every language and every fix that lands after this.
The rule and the price intent are ratified in CHARTER.md, under The boundary: free forever / Teams. Teams is planned at ~€10 per active author per month — the pricing page has the details.
The free half is the whole product today
codeweb Teams is still being built. Everything on this site that you can install and run is free, MIT, and yours.