Start free with the full-featured Core edition. Scale to Pro for commercial plugins or Vault for enterprise compliance.
Cerid runs on your hardware. Nothing here ever connects to your instance.
STEP 1
Check out here
Payment is handled on this site by Stripe. Your Cerid server never talks to a payment provider.
STEP 2
Get a license key
You receive a signed key immediately after checkout, and again in your receipt email.
STEP 3
Paste it into the app
Settings → Plan & Billing → Activate. Verified offline, so it works air-gapped. No reinstall.
Want to try before paying anything? Install Core and start a 14-day Pro trial in the app — no credit card, no account.
One script installs everything. Runs on any modern machine.
Operating System
macOS, Linux, Windows (WSL2)
RAM
16 GB minimum
Disk
10 GB free space
Docker
Docker Desktop or Engine
Startup
One command: ./scripts/start-cerid.sh
Services
5 containers auto-configured
No cloud account needed. No API keys required to start (Ollama runs fully local). Add an OpenRouter key later for access to Claude, GPT, and other frontier models.
All tiers support your own OpenRouter API key. Use Claude, GPT, Gemini, Llama — or run Ollama locally for zero API costs. No vendor lock-in. Your key is Fernet-encrypted at rest.