Pricing

A license, not a meter.

Self-hosted rendering for EN 16931 e-invoices. Your documents never leave your infrastructure — so we price the software, not your document count.

Container license — per year, any number of instances

Founding-customer offer: the first 5 production customers get 40% off year one in exchange for a published case study.

Every license includes

• No watermark, no daily cap — the license file unlocks the same public image you evaluated
• Spec-cycle updates — stylesheets and validation tracking updated within 3 weeks of every Peppol/EN 16931 release (May + November), for the license term
• All syntaxes and profiles — UBL, CII, Peppol BIS 3.0, XRechnung, hybrid Factur-X output
• Air-gap friendly — no phone-home, no telemetry, offline license verification; runs where your invoices live
• The doctrine — an expired license never hard-stops your rendering. It warns, then degrades gracefully to evaluation mode after a 30-day grace period. Faktorei will not take down your billing run.
• Support by email, priority for design partners

Bands are honor-based with an annual true-up — we don't meter your documents, because we never see them. Instances aren't counted either: one license covers your whole deployment. The line between Volume and Service provider is not how many documents you render — it is whose they are.

Services

How to buy

Email billing@faktorei.dev with the tier and your company details. You receive a signed license file and an invoice — which is, naturally, a Factur-X hybrid rendered by Faktorei itself. Payment by bank transfer or card (Stripe). The license agreement is two pages and readable.

Questions we get

Can I try the full throughput before buying?

Not the published run — that is 50,500 documents (a 10,000-invoice corpus, five timed passes plus warm-up) against a 500/day evaluation cap. You can measure your own hardware, which the benchmark page argues is the number that actually matters: the harness takes --runs and --warmup, so a small corpus fits inside a single day of evaluation and gives you a per-core figure on the machine you would deploy on. The published number stays reproducible from its seed, image digest and exact commands once you hold a license. What the evaluation proves is the output: that your invoices render correctly, validate clean, and come out as conformant PDF/A-3b.

What happens when my license expires?

Warnings for 30 days, then evaluation mode. Never a hard stop. Renewals are an email.

Do you offer a hosted API?

In development. The self-hosted container is the flagship deliberately: most of our customers can't ship invoice data to third parties, and neither should they have to.

How do I know which band I'm in?

Almost certainly Standard. Even a very large enterprise issuing 10,000 invoices a month lands at 120,000 a year, well inside it — 250,000 is roughly 20,000 a month. Volume exists for the genuine outliers: utilities, telcos, insurers, marketplaces. Service provider is not about size at all — it is for rendering documents that belong to someone else, whether as a service or inside a product you sell. If you are unsure, take Standard and true up on renewal; that is what the honor system is for.

Multiple instances?

Run as many as you need — replicas, environments, regions — at no extra cost. Volume and third-party rendering are the only axes we price on. Our own deployment guidance is to scale out with replicas rather than up with cores, and it would be strange to charge you for taking it.