Licences are perpetual and validated offline. The version you buy keeps working forever — only the entitlement to new versions lapses, after a year. An update plan to keep receiving them is optional, and renews yearly until you cancel.
This machine only.
Three machines you own.
Unlimited machines. A person, not a PC.
A site licence, priced by estate size.
Optional yearly update plan: $99, $299 or $799 by band, renewing until cancelled.
Request an invoice| Free | Pro | Technician | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware detection, benchmarks, scores | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Finding titles and severity | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Most severe finding in full | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Every finding with fix steps | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Upgrade path | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Trends over time | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Export report (HTML, printable) | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Branded reports | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Portable mode, no install | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Fleet view, network map, estate trend | Not included | Not included | Included | Included |
| Estate report for sign-off | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Hardware refresh plan and Windows 11 readiness | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Unattended scanning for deployment | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Machines covered | This one | 3 you own | Unlimited | By band, up to 2,000+ |
Machine allowances are licence terms shown in Settings, not a lock. An offline licence can prove a tier but never a count, and we would rather trust customers than add friction that only punishes the honest ones.
Only if you want newer versions. Your current licence keeps working either way. An update plan adds a year of new versions on to whatever you have left, then renews each year until you cancel.
Only your entitlement to new versions. The build you have keeps working forever, with no nag screens and no reduced functionality. If you never renew, nothing breaks — you simply stay on the version you had when the entitlement lapsed.
Yes. An update plan is a yearly subscription: $5 for Pro or $20 for Technician, plus any applicable tax, charged when you start it and again every 12 months until you cancel. Cancel any time from your account — we email you a link to manage it — or by emailing sales@bottleneckonline.com. Cancelling means you are not charged again. Your licence and every version you already have keep working; you just stop receiving new ones when the year you have paid for ends.
No. There is no sign-up and no login anywhere in the product. Your key arrives by email and is verified on your own machine against a public key compiled into the application.
Nothing. Licences are checked entirely offline, so there is no activation server to go dark. The only thing you would lose is the reference-data download, and the application works identically on the dataset it already has.
Yes. Nothing is locked to hardware — a Technician licence in particular is a person, not a machine, since the whole point is scanning computers you do not own. Replace a motherboard and your key still works.
Paddle.com Market Ltd is our authorised reseller and merchant of record. They handle the payment, the tax and the invoice, and their terms apply to the transaction. Refunds go through them — see our refund policy.
On Enterprise, yes. Get in touch and we will sort out terms, an invoice and a licence issued outside the normal checkout.