Free under CPAL 1.0. Unlimited for production. Partnership for customization. Pick what fits — pricing is scaled to your company profile.
Same library. Different relationship.
Observatory’s import and export layer is open under CPAL 1.0. The C calculation core stays closed for IP reasons, but ships under whichever tier you choose. The library itself doesn’t change between tiers — what changes is the warranty, the support, and the engagement model.
The Mechanism
Three tiers, openly priced.
Free is genuinely free. The CPAL 1.0 license lets you use Observatory in commercial production with attribution — no fees, no usage caps. The trade-off is that you accept the library as-is, with no warranty, no liability, and no support obligation on our side.
If you need warranty, liability cover, or active support, the Unlimited tier handles that. If you need customization, integration work, or a dedicated engagement, that’s the Partnership tier. Both are quote-based and priced against company profile — small companies pay small numbers.
CPAL 1.0
Attribution
No Warranty (Free)
SLA Support
Quote-Based
PICK YOUR TIER
Tier I · Free
CPAL 1.0
The Common Public Attribution License. Use Observatory for any purpose — including commercial — with visible attribution to Ghost Citadel in your product or report.
Includes: Full library, all metrics, all I/O adapters, complete documentation.
Does not include: Warranty, liability cover, support, SLA, or any obligation from Ghost Citadel.
Usage without restriction. Backed by a service-level agreement. The library you already know — plus a contract that protects you when something goes wrong.
Includes: Everything in Free, plus warranty, liability cover, response-time SLA, and ongoing support from Ghost Citadel engineers.
Pricing: Quote-based, scaled to company profile. Affordable for small teams, sensible for large ones.
Everything in Unlimited, plus a working relationship. We integrate Observatory into your stack, build the custom metrics your domain needs, and deploy alongside your team.
Includes: Everything in Unlimited, plus implementation, custom metric development, integration engineering, and dedicated support channels.
Pricing: Quote-based, scaled to company profile and scope of engagement. We work with both startups and enterprises.
The free tier is genuinely free for commercial use. The paid tiers add legal protection and engagement — not features. We don’t hide capabilities behind paywalls, we don’t meter your usage, and we don’t auto-upgrade you. If you outgrow the free tier’s warranty terms, you reach out, we quote, you decide.
# What each tier actually meansFREE / CPAL 1.0
✓ Use commercially without fees
✓ Modify the I/O layer source
✓ Run on any infrastructure
✓ Required: visible attribution to Ghost Citadel
✗ No warranty · you accept the library as-is
✗ No liability cover · bugs are your risk
✗ No support obligation · community only
UNLIMITED
✓ Everything above, with warranty
✓ Liability cover · we stand behind defects
✓ Response-time SLA · written commitments
✓ Engineer support · not a chatbot
PARTNERSHIP
✓ Everything above, plus engagement
✓ Custom metric development
✓ Integration engineering
✓ Dedicated support channels
# Pricing for paid tiers: company-profile-based.# Small teams pay small numbers. Reach out.
Priced for Your Company. Not Theirs.
Enterprise software pricing usually treats every customer like a Fortune 500 holdout. We don’t. The Unlimited and Partnership tiers are quoted against your actual company profile — team size, deployment scope, support needs — so a fifteen-person operation pays fifteen-person money. Reach out and ask.
START YOUR JOURNEY
PATH A
Try It Free
Install under CPAL 1.0, run it in production, evaluate it on your own data. No account, no quote, no conversation needed — just attribution.
For Unlimited or Partnership tiers. Tell us the size of your team, the scope of your deployment, and what kind of support you need. We come back with a number.