Licensing

ThinkWatch is distributed under the Business Source License 1.1 as source-available software.

Summary

Item	Rule
Non-production use	Permitted at no charge
Free production use	Permitted up to both `10,000,000` Billable Tokens and `10,000` MCP Tool Calls per UTC calendar month
Commercial trigger	A separate commercial license is required if either threshold is exceeded
Future open-source conversion	Each released version converts to `GPL-2.0-or-later` on the earlier of its Change Date or the fourth anniversary of its first public release

Commercial access is priced by monthly usage rather than by seat count.

Included in Billable Tokens	Excluded from Billable Tokens
All input tokens processed for production traffic	Local development, CI, test, staging, or demo traffic
All output tokens generated for production traffic	Internal evaluation traffic that does not serve end-user production requests
Aggregated usage across all workspaces, teams, environments, and customers operated by the same legal entity	—

Included in MCP Tool Calls	Excluded from MCP Tool Calls
Each production invocation of an MCP tool routed through the Licensed Work	Internal health checks
Calls initiated by human users, agents, automations, or background workflows	Tool discovery and catalog refresh operations such as `tools/list`
Aggregated usage across all workspaces, teams, environments, and customers operated by the same legal entity	Local development, CI, test, staging, or demo traffic

Term	Definition
Production Usage Volume	The total Billable Tokens and total MCP Tool Calls processed during a UTC calendar month

Tier	Billable Tokens / month	MCP Tool Calls / month	List Price
`Starter`	`0` to `10,000,000`	`0` to `10,000`	Included under the Additional Use Grant in LICENSE
`Growth`	`10,000,001` to `100,000,000`	`10,001` to `100,000`	`USD 499 / month`
`Scale`	`100,000,001` to `1,000,000,000`	`100,001` to `1,000,000`	`USD 1,999 / month`
`Enterprise`	`1,000,000,001` to `10,000,000,000`	`1,000,001` to `10,000,000`	`USD 6,999 / month`
`Custom`	Above `10,000,000,000`	Above `10,000,000`	Custom commercial agreement

Embedded, OEM, and managed-service offerings may require a custom commercial agreement even when usage is otherwise metered monthly.

Scenario	Applicable Tier
The monthly tier is determined by the higher tier reached by either Billable Tokens or MCP Tool Calls	Highest matching tier across both metrics
`8,000,000` Billable Tokens and `25,000` MCP Tool Calls	`Growth`
`220,000,000` Billable Tokens and `80,000` MCP Tool Calls	`Scale`

Requirement	Rule
Exceeding free thresholds	You must obtain a commercial license before continuing production use of the Licensed Work