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Product licensing & distribution management API

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Keygen - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

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Last updated: March 2026

Keygen overview

What is Keygen?

Keygen is a cloud-based licensing and distribution application programming interface (API) designed to help developers encrypt and secure server software, desktop applications, and other digital products. Keygen comes with customer identity management functionality, which allows administrators to manage multiple licenses and machines for each user on a client-side environment.

Key features of Keygen include policy management, machine activation, license keys, validation, user management, and search functionality. Businesses can use the solution to create and validate new products and provide access through authentication tokens. Keygen enables users to automate processes for future license creation and validation. The platform also lets developers manage product visibility across the web by tracking all machine activations for each license.

Keygen supports integration with several third-party applications such as Electron, Stripe, Paddle, SendOwl, FastSpring, MoonClerk and Gumroad, helping streamline the product licensing and distribution workflow. Keygen's centralized dashboard allows users to generate product tokens for webhooks, and receive notifications on events within the Keygen account.

Starting price

49flat rate /
per month

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Keygen’s user interface

Ease of use rating:

Keygen pros, cons and reviews insights

To determine these pros and cons insights, we analyzed responses from 

Overall rating

Reviews sentiment

 
 
3-4(5)
5(22)

What do users say about Keygen?

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Who uses Keygen?

Based on 27 verified user reviews.

Company size

Small Businesses

Midsize Businesses

Enterprises

Top industries

Computer Software
Media Production
Information Technology and Services
Telecommunications
Others

Use cases

License Management

Keygen's key features

Most critical features, based on insights from Keygen users:

Product activation
License tracking
Copy protection
Portable license
Reporting/Analytics
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All Keygen features

Features rating:

Access controls/permissions
Activity dashboard
Activity tracking
Alerts/Notifications
API
Audit trail
Copy protection
License tracking
Node management
Portable license
Product activation
Real-Time notifications
Real-Time reporting
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & statistics
Self service portal
Third-Party integrations
Trial license
User management

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Keygen pricing

Value for money rating:

Pricing plans

Pricing details:

Free plan
Free trial
Subscription

Dev 0

0.00

Features included:

  • Device Activations
  • Feature Licenses
  • Floating Licenses
  • License Entitlements
  • Licensing Analytics
  • Metered Licenses
  • Node-Locked Licenses
  • Offline Licenses
  • Perpetual Licenses
  • Software Licensing API
  • Timed Licenses
  • Trial Licenses
  • Up to 10 Releases
  • Up to 1 Admin
  • Up to 1 Product
  • Up to 2000 API Requests Per Day
  • Up to 50 Active Licensed Users
  • Up to 5 Policies
  • User Identities

Tier 1

49

Per month

Features included:

  • Device Activations
  • Distribution API
  • Feature Licenses
  • Floating Licenses
  • License Entitlements
  • Licensing Analytics
  • Metered Licenses
  • Node-Locked Licenses
  • Offline Licenses
  • Perpetual Licenses
  • Premium Support
  • Software Licensing API
  • Timed Licenses
  • Trial Licenses
  • Unlimited Releases
  • Up to 10000 API Requests Per Day
  • Up to 1000 Active Licensed Users
  • Up to 1 Admin
  • Up to 1 Product
  • Up to 25 Policies
  • User Identities

Tier 2

79

Per month

Features included:

  • Device Activations
  • Distribution API
  • Feature Licenses
  • Floating Licenses
  • License Entitlements
  • Licensing Analytics
  • Metered Licenses
  • Node-Locked Licenses
  • Offline Licenses
  • Perpetual Licenses
  • Premium Support
  • Software Licensing API
  • Timed Licenses
  • Trial Licenses
  • Unlimited Releases
  • Up to 25 Policies
  • Up to 2 Admins
  • Up to 2 Products
  • Up to 50000 API Requests Per Day
  • Up to 5000 Active Licensed Users
  • User Identities

Tier 3

129

Per month

Features included:

  • Device Activations
  • Distribution API
  • Feature Licenses
  • Floating Licenses
  • License Entitlements
  • Licensing Analytics
  • Metered Licenses
  • Node-Locked Licenses
  • Offline Licenses
  • Perpetual Licenses
  • Premium Support
  • Software Licensing API
  • Timed Licenses
  • Trial Licenses
  • User Identities

Tier 4

199

Per month

Features included:

  • Device Activations
  • Distribution API
  • Feature Licenses
  • Floating Licenses
  • License Entitlements
  • Licensing Analytics
  • Metered Licenses
  • Node-Locked Licenses
  • Offline Licenses
  • Perpetual Licenses
  • Premium Support
  • Software Licensing API
  • Timed Licenses
  • Trial Licenses
  • User Identities

Tier 5

399

Per month

Features included:

  • Device Activations
  • Dist
  • Feature Licenses
  • Floating Licenses
  • License Entitlements
  • Licensing Analytics
  • Metered Licenses
  • Node-Locked Licenses
  • Offline Licenses
  • Perpetual Licenses
  • Software Licensing API
  • Timed Licenses
  • Trial Licenses
  • User Identities

User opinions about Keygen price and value

Value for money rating:

To see what individual users think of Keygen's price and value, check out the review snippets below.

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Liang Z.

Founder

“I would like to be able to set up a notification system for errors in API requests”
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Coleman H.

Owner

Keygen integrations (5)

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Integration rating: 3.0 (1)

Zoho CRM connects reliably so new or updated records can trigger tasks and emails, which is useful when experimenting with simple CRM workflows

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Kartikeya G.

Property Manager

Keygen support options

Typical customers

Freelancers
Small businesses
Mid size businesses
Large enterprises

Platforms supported

Web
Android
iPhone/iPad

Support options

FAQs/Forum
Knowledge Base
Email/Help Desk
Chat

Training options

Documentation
Live Online

Keygen FAQs

Q. Who are the typical users of Keygen?

Keygen has the following typical customers:
Mid-size Business, Large Enterprises, Small Business, Freelancers

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Q. What level of support does Keygen offer?

Keygen offers the following support options:
FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Email/Help Desk, Chat

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