Academic and non-commercial use stays free on PyPI forever. For commercial integration we pick one of four tiers — or talk to us if none fits. Paddle is our Merchant of Record so VAT, invoicing and refunds are handled for you.
Same compiled codec as the paid tiers. Public mirror, paper, container spec — fully accessible.
.mfx format specCommercial licence for solo founders and small teams shipping a single product.
For working product teams integrating MFC into shipping pipelines.
OEM royalties, on-prem deployment, C ABI, FPGA-friendly builds, custom SLAs.
Send a representative recording. PDF report, encode/decode timings, evaluation wheel for your platform. Two weeks turnaround.
€5,000 fixed
Request benchmarkREST endpoint at api.codec.mirrorfractal.com for compress / decompress without packaging the SDK yourself.
From €0 / month
Request API access| Free | Indie | Team | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial licence | — | ● | ● | ● |
| Products | 1 (research) | 1 | 3 | Unlimited |
| Developer seats | 1 | 1 | 5 | Unlimited |
| Throughput / device | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Email support | — | 48h | 24h | 4h critical |
| Private Slack channel | — | — | ● | Dedicated |
| Custom format support | — | — | On request | Included |
| Source access under NDA | — | — | Read-only | Full |
| Quarterly office hour | — | — | ● | Monthly |
| Priority bug fixes | — | ● | ● | ● |
| C ABI / shared library | — | — | — | On request |
| FPGA-friendly builds | — | — | — | On request |
| Custom integration engineering | — | — | — | Included |
| 24/7 critical SLA | — | — | — | ● |
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