Coder

license

AGPL-3.0(OSI, Community Edition)

source

public(GitHub)

commercial-tier

Premium/Enterprise paid features for large teams under separate Coder enterprise license

core-gated

gated(the enterprise/ tree - audit logs, groups/RBAC, AI seat tracking - is governed by LICENSE.enterprise rather than the AGPL root, and that license forbids circumventing the license key protecting those features)

AGPL-3.0 OSI core (Community Edition) with a separate proprietary Premium/Enterprise tier, which makes it open core. The core counts as gated on a named mechanism rather than merely because a paid tier exists. coder/coder carries two top-level licenses: the root AGPL-3.0 and LICENSE.enterprise, the latter scoped by its own text to the "directory named enterprise". That directory is in the published tree but not under the open license, it contains the audit log, group/RBAC and AI seat-tracking implementations, and the enterprise license forbids circumventing the license key that unlocks them. The carve-out sits inside the repository itself, rather than the whole product shipping open with a service sold beside it.

• https://github.com/coder/coder recorded 2026-06-04

  AGPL-3.0 Community Edition + Premium paid tier (compare-plans), self-hosted workspaces

• https://api.github.com/repos/coder/coder/git/trees/main?recursive=1 recorded 2026-08-12

  Full untruncated recursive tree, 13,459 entries. A top-level enterprise/ directory holds the paid surface - enterprise/audit/ with postgres and slog backends, enterprise/aiseats/tracker.go, enterprise/cli/licenses.go, enterprise/cli/features.go, enterprise/cli/group*.go - and a second top-level LICENSE.enterprise sits beside the root LICENSE.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/main/LICENSE.enterprise recorded 2026-08-12

  Scopes itself to "any software and associated documentation files under Coder Technologies Inc.’s ("Coder") directory named "enterprise"", and states under Limitations: "You may not move, change, disable, or circumvent the license key functionality in the software, and you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software that is protected by the license key." Production use additionally requires agreement to Coder’s Terms of Service.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coder/coder/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-08-12

  Root license is the GNU Affero General Public License v3, verbatim, governing everything the enterprise carve-out does not name.