Pricing
Free for research.
Commercial when it ships.
The control plane is AGPL-3.0 and always will be. The GPU engine ships as binaries — free for research, licensed for commercial use. See the free-vs-paid boundary →
AGPL-3.0 self-host
Free
$0
forever
Research groups, open-source projects, academic collaborations.
- +Full ingest pipeline: Geant4 CSV, Well HDF5, ROOT TTrees
- +Wavelet-scattering feature extraction (CPU)
- +DisCo mass-decorrelation training and calibration CLIs
- +Benchmark harness (Asimov proxy, JSD)
- +21-test Well adapter suite + G4 adapter suite
- +AGPL-3.0 — source available, modifications must be open
- +Community support via GitHub Issues
Hosted metered
Lab
Contact
per analysis run
Research groups that want hosted compute, managed GPU access, or SLA support.
Free trial: 7 days + 900 GPU-seconds, no card required. One per verified email.
- +Everything in Free
- +GPU-accelerated engine binaries (no build required)
- +Hosted ingest and scattering endpoint
- +Metered billing per dataset-shard processed
- +Priority email support
- +Results validated by the Vikshep team before delivery
- +Private pilot: cite Vikshep in your paper (optional)
Commercial license
Enterprise
Contact
annual
Experiment collaborations, industrial R&D, and proprietary deployments.
- +Everything in Lab
- +Commercial license — no AGPL copyleft requirements
- +On-premise deployment with SLA
- +Custom loader development (ROOT schema, VTK, detector formats)
- +Dedicated integration engineering
- +Signed NDA; data never leaves your facility
- +Priority feature roadmap input
FAQ
Common questions
Is the engine source available?
The control plane (ingest, DisCo, recipes, site) is AGPL-3.0 — full source in the GitHub repo. The GPU engine ships as binaries under a separate proprietary license. Research use of the binaries is free; commercial deployment requires a license.
What does AGPL-3.0 mean for my analysis code?
If you use Vikshep as a library in your own code and distribute that code (including over a network), your code must also be AGPL-3.0. If you only use Vikshep locally for your own analysis and do not distribute it, the copyleft does not propagate. For any doubt, use the Enterprise tier.
Can I publish results produced with the Free tier?
Yes. There are no restrictions on publishing results. We ask that you cite Vikshep in any paper (BibTeX on the /pilot page).
How is Lab metered billing calculated?
Billing is per dataset-shard ingested and per scattering run. Contact us for current rates and volume discounts.
Does the Free tier include GPU acceleration?
CPU inference is available in the Free tier. GPU-accelerated engine binaries require the Lab or Enterprise tier.
Licensing
The control plane (this repo) is licensed under AGPL-3.0-or-later. The GPU engine ships as pre-compiled binaries under the Vikshep Engine Binary Terms: free for research and non-commercial use; commercial deployment requires a license. See LICENSING.md for the full terms.
All pricing questions: shekhawatsamvardhan@gmail.com