Own it. Forever.
dbo.io is a permanent license. Pay once, run it in your own infrastructure indefinitely. Updates are included for one year — after that, what you have keeps working, exactly as it is.
One license. Yours to keep.
When you license dbo.io, you receive a permanent right to run the software in your own infrastructure. There are no usage-based fees, no seats to count, no API call quotas, and no monthly bill.
Your license includes one year of updates from the date of purchase. After that year, your installation continues to run exactly as it is — fully functional, fully yours — without any further payment obligation. When you want the next year of updates, you renew. If you don't, nothing breaks.
This is how we've operated with existing clients for years. We wanted the model to be explicit for new customers.
Why we license it this way
dbo.io is designed for deployment in your own infrastructure — your servers, your VPC, your data. A subscription model that can be revoked contradicts that design intent.
We believe software you depend on operationally should not be contingent on a vendor relationship remaining intact. If we disappeared tomorrow, your system should keep running. That's the only model that makes sense for infrastructure.
Source code access
For clients who require it: source code is provided under the client agreement. Not open-source, but available for emergency review or critical patching. For systems this central to operations, operational continuity isn't negotiable.
The complete platform
License
- Permanent right to run in your infrastructure
- One year of software updates from purchase date
- Schema-driven REST API generation
- Cell-level security (entity, row, column)
- Content rendering engine (HTML, JSON, CSV, XML)
- Messaging — email, SMS/MMS, AI chatbot
- Media management with S3 and external server support
- Automation scheduler
- Audit trail and full revision history
- App packaging and portability (.model archive)
- CLI and dynamic C# code compilation (Roslyn)
- Operator management console
Deployment
- Full VPC deployment — your cloud account
- On-premises server option
- No data leaves your infrastructure
- No usage reporting back to dbo.io
Implementation support
Separate engagement
- Setup and configuration
- Integration with existing databases
- App development and consulting
- Ongoing maintenance contracts available
The conversation starts with what you're building
If you're evaluating dbo.io, the conversation starts with understanding what you're building — then we figure out the licensing and support structure together.
Tell us what you're building. We'll take it from there.
What to expect
We vet early partners carefully. Not because we're exclusive for its own sake — because a dbo.io integration is substantial, and we want to make sure it's set up right.
After you submit a request, you'll hear from us within a few days. If it's a good fit, we'll schedule a call to discuss your use case, database environment, and deployment requirements before talking numbers.
Licensing FAQ
Your installation keeps running exactly as it is. Nothing breaks, nothing gets disabled. You're simply not eligible for new feature releases until you renew.
We handle those on a case-by-case basis. Critical patches for active, deployed installations are something we take seriously regardless of update status.
License terms are scoped to specific deployments. Multi-instance, multi-environment, or enterprise-wide licensing is negotiated as part of the access conversation.
Yes — and for most clients, this is how the relationship works. We've built and maintained systems at enterprise scale across the full operational stack. Implementation consulting is available as a separate engagement.
MySQL / MariaDB and Microsoft SQL Server. Connect dbo.io to an existing database and gain a full API surface, security layer, and rendering engine without modifying the original system.
Source code is provided to clients under the license agreement. It is not open-source, but it is available for audit, review, and emergency patching. Client autonomy is a design principle, not an afterthought.
Ready to stop writing the middle tier?
dbo.io is invite-only. We work with a small number of early partners to make sure the integration is set up right. Tell us about what you're building.