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Trial license

New customers can evaluate the paid premium modules (SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit log streaming, branded transactional emails) under a 30-day trial license at no cost. The trial unlocks the same feature set as the Scale tier.

There are two ways to get one:

  1. Self-service script — for evaluations on your own infrastructure from a checkout of the source tree.
  2. Contact sales — for a trial license tied to a real organization that you can install on a production-shaped deployment.

Option 1: Self-service script​

From a checkout of the IdentSphere source tree:

./scripts/issue-trial-license.sh > my-trial.license

That writes a 30-day trial license to my-trial.license (suitable for IDENTSPHERE_LICENSE_FILE) or you can redirect to stdout for copy-paste:

./scripts/issue-trial-license.sh

The script is a thin wrapper around identsphere-license-gen, which is the official license-generation CLI. The wrapper passes:

--tier trial --expires-in-days 30 --features all

so you don't have to remember the flag set.

If the identsphere-license-gen binary isn't built yet (it's part of the licensing tooling that ships alongside the SDK), the script prints a helpful message and exits non-zero. Run cargo build --workspace --release once and try again.

Custom recipient / organization​

If you want the license tied to a particular organization name (so the auditing log surfaces it correctly), pass --org through to the wrapper:

./scripts/issue-trial-license.sh --org "Acme Inc" > acme.license

Any extra flags after the recognized ones are forwarded to identsphere-license-gen as-is.

Option 2: Contact sales​

For a trial license tied to a domain we've verified — for example, because you want to share the trial across a team — email sales (see the README for the current address). We turn these around inside one business day during weekdays.

What's unlocked in trial mode​

The trial license enables every feature listed under the Scale column of the pricing comparison:

  • SAML SSO via the identsphere-saml crate
  • SCIM v2 provisioning via identsphere-scim
  • Audit log streaming to your SIEM via identsphere-audit-export
  • Branded transactional emails
  • Custom roles
  • All Pro-tier features

Premium modules respect the same license check in trial as they do in production. If something works under the trial license, it will work under a paid Scale or Enterprise license — there are no separate "trial-only" code paths to surprise you on conversion.

What happens at expiry​

The trial license expires 30 days after issuance. At expiry, the deployment drops to the Community tier:

  • Premium features stop working at the next binary restart.
  • No data is lost. All users, organizations, sessions, and audit records remain intact.
  • Core authentication flows (registration, login, MFA, passkeys, OAuth, password reset) continue to operate normally.
  • A licensed reinstall — by issuing a new license and dropping it into IDENTSPHERE_LICENSE_FILE — restores premium feature access without any data migration.

This is the same fail-open posture every license expiry follows. We never want a license dispute to lock customers out of their own authentication system.

Running trial in test mode​

The trial license works identically in test mode. A common evaluation pattern:

  1. Stand up identsphere-server with IDENTSPHERE_TEST_MODE=true.
  2. Issue a trial license with the script.
  3. Point your application at the sandbox URL.
  4. Exercise the premium flows (e.g. SAML federation against a test IdP) without any risk of leaking real notification mail.

When you're ready to flip the deployment to production, restart the server without IDENTSPHERE_TEST_MODE and re-issue a non-trial license. No schema changes are required.

  • Pricing — tier comparison and FAQs.
  • Test mode — sandbox mode details.
  • Licensing — why IdentSphere is source-available and how the license check works.