Azure NCache Pricing

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1. Free Trial (fully working, without limits): NCache free trial contains all the features, and no performance or sizing limitations. Install it on as many servers of any strength as you wish to fully evaluate NCache. The 60-day trial can be extended upon request. Upon downloading NCache, you will receive an install key that allows you to get started without any more approvals. Your trial period is checked against your company's domain name.
2. Purchasing Azure NCache from Marketplace: You must purchase Azure NCache from Azure Marketplace. When you do that, you're taken to the NCache Cloud Portal to register. For the Flexible Plan, you're given a license key by NCache sales to get started. Then, as you activate NCache servers on an hourly subscription, Alachisoft starts charging you for the "Software" through the Azure Marketplace. For the Annual Plan, when you purchase annual or monthly subscription licenses, you pay for them upfront. NCache sales team helps you pay this amount through Azure Marketplace with a "custom quotation". You can also purchase additional monthly subscription licenses or pro-rated annual subscription licenses mid-year and pay for them again through Azure Marketplace with a "custom quotation". Please contact sales for more details.
 
3. "Software" / "Infrastructure" Payments and Discounts: When you purchase Azure NCache, Alachisoft charges you for the "Software" through the Azure Marketplace, and you pay Microsoft for this "Software". If you have purchased an Annual Plan, then you receive discounts for annual and monthly subscriptions. In all cases, you directly pay Microsoft for the "Infrastructure" that includes VMs, public ip-addresses, data transfer costs, etc. However, you have the flexibility of getting discounts by doing a 1-year reservation of VMs with Microsoft.
 
4. Free Dev Workstation and Dev/QA Servers: Dev Workstation is an NCache client provided through NuGet, Maven, PyPi, and npm, and includes full NCache API and a stand-alone local InProc cache. Dev/QA Server is a stand-alone cache server (or a local OutProc cache on Dev Workstation) with a max of 2 remote client nodes and unlimited local clients. Both Dev Workstation and Dev/QA Server provide a 2 GB aggregated cache size max and performance limits of less than 25 req/sec total.
5. Activating NCache with Purchase License Key: Upon purchase, you will receive a license key. Entering the license key on each server (and client) converts NCache from evaluation mode to a purchased copy without any re-installation. With perpetual licenses, no further activations or renewals are required. With an Annual Subscription, NCache works for one year. At the end of this subscription period, you must renew the subscription, or NCache stops working. However, you're given ample alerts by NCache (and our sales team) before your renewal date.
6. Perpetual Licenses: Own these and only pay for annual maintenance and support each year. 24/7 support is purchased separately and is only possible with an active annual maintenance and support. The first year of support is mandatory. Discontinued support requires an extra reactivation fee.
7. Annual Subscription: Pay this each year. The subscription price includes annual maintenance and support. However, 24x7 support is purchased separately.
 
8. Site License: Unlimited NCache Server-only Annual Subscription licenses per site that are valid only as long as the customer has paid the annual site license fee. A site is one overall application consisting of one or more related applications deployed either together or in similar environments, used by the same users or customers, and collectively providing one general solution. This one application is owned by one legal entity or its affiliates. The application may be deployed for internal use, for customers, or for partners of this legal entity or its affiliates.
 
9. Monthly Server: Purchase monthly subscription licenses on top of perpetual licenses or annual subscription, to use different server-only plans, either start of the year or mid-year. The month for each server starts when it is first activated. If auto-renew is enabled and you have sufficient months available, then this server automatically renews its monthly subscription. Any unused monthly subscription licenses are lost at the end of the annual subscription period or the annual support and maintenance period in case of perpetual licenses.
 
10. Hourly Server: When you sign up for an hourly subscription (either in Flexible or Annual Plan), you are given a license key. You then activate each NCache server specifically for hourly usage with this license key. Your hourly charges continue to occur until you deactivate the server with the same license key. Stopping the VM does not stop the hourly charges.
11. Mid-Year Additional Subscription Licenses (Pro-Rated): Purchase additional subscription licenses mid-year on a prorated basis. You are charged upfront for all the remaining months until the end of the subscription period, and the initial month is prorated. Additionally, these subscription licenses are automatically renewed at the end of the subscription period unless you specify otherwise.
12. Mid-Year Additional Perpetual Licenses (Pro-Rated): Purchase additional perpetual licenses mid-year, and their annual support and maintenance are prorated for you. You are charged upfront for all the perpetual licenses and only the remaining months for annual support and maintenance. The annual support and maintenance are automatically renewed at the end of the period unless you specify otherwise.
13. Move Licenses (On-Premises, Multi-Cloud): Move NCache licenses from one environment to another by deactivating/reactivating them when needed. You can also share licenses between on-premises and Azure / AWS or other clouds, and also from one cloud to another. However, moving licenses is only possible with an active subscription, or for perpetual licenses, with an active annual support and maintenance.
14. Public Service Packs: NCache Public Service packs for fixing bugs and problems are provided free of charge, even without an active Annual Support and Maintenance for perpetual licenses. However, major version releases of NCache are not provided free of charge without an active Annual Support and Maintenance or an active Annual Subscription.
15. Private Patches: NCache Private Patches are meant for fixing critical bugs in a timely manner, where a customer cannot wait for the next public service pack release. The Private Patches are developed specifically for a customer but may also be made available to other customers having similar issues/problems. However, Private Patches are made available only to customers on active subscriptions or active annual maintenance and support.
16. Remote Client: Without an installer, it includes NuGet, Maven, PyPi, and npm packages, full NCache API, and an InProc Local Cache / Client Cache. With an installer (Windows, Linux), it also includes an OutProc Local Cache / Client Cache. Remote clients on the Client-Server licensing model must use an installer to allow them to activate their licenses.
 
17. Server-only Licensing (RAM, vCPUs): These servers are licensed on a combination of RAM and vCPUs, whichever is higher. Each RAM and vCPU combination represents a server plan. You can change these plans by reusing your licenses.
18. Client-server Licensing (vCPUs): These servers and remote clients are licensed on vCPUs only, with no limits on RAM. Each license is equal to 4 vCPUs, with a minimum of 2 licenses per server and client. In legacy client/server licensing, available only to existing customers as a grandfathering option, "cores" are used instead of vCPUs to calculate licenses.

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