License & Open Source

Keenpix is open source. The same engine that powers the managed cloud is published in our public repository and can be self-hosted with no Keenpix license fee. You remain responsible for infrastructure, operations, and any third-party charges. There is no separate "open-core" fork — the cloud is this engine, operated for you.

Engine license

The Keenpix engine is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). You are free to run it on your own infrastructure subject to that license, including for commercial use. If you modify the engine and offer it to others over a network, the AGPL requires you to share your modifications' source. See the self-hosting guide to deploy it with Docker.

Our promise: the self-host engine stays AGPL-licensed and free — no rug-pull, no contributor license agreement, no features removed from self-host to upsell the cloud. Releases published before the AGPL relicense (v0.1.11 and earlier) remain available under Apache-2.0.

Cloud service

Your use of the hosted Keenpix cloud service is governed by our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, not by the engine's open-source license. The open-source license covers the software; the cloud terms cover the operated service.

Third-party software

Keenpix builds on excellent open-source projects, including sharp for image processing, TanStack Start and React for the application, Prisma and PostgreSQL for data, ClickHouse for analytics, and better-auth for authentication. Their respective licenses apply to those components.

No lock-in

Because the engine is open source and cloud and self-host share one URL scheme, you can move between managed cloud and self-hosting without rewriting your image URLs.