Lifetime Access

Whether you choose an annual or a monthly subscription plan for Beekeeper Studio, you’re eligible for a lifetime usage license. This means you gain perpetual access to any version of Beekeeper Studio released within your subscription period, allowing you to use the software indefinitely without any additional payments.

Annual subscribers get lifetime access right away

Suppose you start an annual subscription on March 10, 2021. You’ll receive a lifetime license for any version of Beekeeper Studio released until March 10, 2022. Even if your subscription ends, you can continue using any of these versions forever.

Monthly subscribers get lifetime access after 12 months

If you opt for a monthly subscription and complete 12 consecutive months, the same benefit applies. For example, if you begin your monthly subscription on March 10, 2021, and maintain it through February 2022, you’ll have lifetime access to versions released during this period.

More details are available on our support page

All paid features included in the versions of the app released within your subscription window. This does not include perpetual access to workspaces, as they require an active subscription.

Sometimes. For paid features, if you purchase a Pro or better license, yes. If you have an Indie license, you’ll need to upgrade first. Free features can be used on any number of devices - no license required.

Yes. Download Beekeeper Studio then click ‘start free trial’ when prompted for a 14 day free trial.

No. Simply download Beekeeper Studio and click ‘start free trial’ to get access to the paid features. We don’t collect any data or payment method until you decide to purchase a license.

Yes. Email us at support@beekeeperstudio.io and we’ll help you out.

Yes. Your 14 days begin when you click ‘start free trial’ inside the app, not when you download it. Install Beekeeper Studio whenever you like, use the free features for as long as you want, and start the trial when you’re ready to evaluate the paid ones.

Nothing - they stay exactly where they are. Your connections, queries, and settings live on your machine, and the app keeps working after the trial with the free Community Edition feature set. You only lose access to the paid features, including cloud workspaces, which need an active subscription.

Yes. Each person downloads the app and starts their own 14 day trial - there are no seats to provision and nothing to set up centrally. When you’re ready to buy, get a quote or contact sales about invoicing.

Yes. You can change plan whenever you like from the account management dashboard

No. Cloud Workspaces, including shared team workspaces, are included in the price of your Professional or Business subscription. Cloud workspaces require an active subscription.

Absolutely not. Any data you enter into Beekeeper Studio belongs to you, and stays on your machine, unless you explicitly use a cloud workspace.

Here’s the only automated data collection performed by the app:

1. Beekeeper Studio occasionally contacts our servers to check for software updates.
2. Beekeeper Studio will re-validate your license occasionally by contacting our servers.
3. If an error occurs, you may be asked if you wish to submit the error to us for triage.
4. You may be asked to consent to the collection of anonymous application usage information. This is opt-in and totally optional.

We do not collect personal information as part of these processes. Any time we collect personal information we will ask for your explicit consent.

No. Once you purchase, your price is locked in, forever.

Beekeeper is run by a small bootstrapped team, we love making software that we’d want to buy, and we don’t have investors to please. Purchase with confidence :-).

Yes. We offer a 30 day refund policy if you’re unhappy for any reason.

Yes. Net invoicing is available for business users purchasing 20+ licenses. Contact sales to learn more.

Yes. This can be done as part of an enterprise plan. Contact sales to learn more.

Yes. Our enterprise plan starts at $4,999/month. As part of an enterprise contract we can discuss a custom MSA, answering security questionnaires, and NET payment terms. Contact sales to discuss..

An overview of our security practices and links to all of our legal documents are on our security page. For security questionnaires and framework-specific requirements, contact sales.

Yes, resellers are welcome! We have a dedicated reseller guide with everything you need to know about purchasing Beekeeper Studio on behalf of your clients, including how to generate quotes, manage licenses, and handle renewals.

You can purchase any plan on behalf of your clients. Generate a quote or purchase directly through our self-service checkout.

Yes. Although our Community Edition is intended for students, individuals, non-profits and small businesses with fewer than 10 employees and/or annual revenue below $1m. If your organization is larger, we ask that you purchase a paid license.

Yes. Beekeeper Studio is open source. View the source on GitHub.

We charge money for some features and databases because making good software is expensive and we’re in it for the long haul.

We would love to….but open source projects without a clear sustainability plan are quickly abandoned, regardless of the good intentions of the maintainers.

We think a fully open core with paid extras is the best model for long term sustainability. So far it’s working - we’re stable and profitable with a full time team. We make a lot of features open & free, probably more than we should financially (shh, don’t tell our accountant).

No. There’s one app download, available here. Paid features can be enabled within the app with a free trial or paid license. Your data is safe when switching between different editions.

By you, our customers. We don’t have investors, corporate overlords or rich parents. Beekeeper started in 2019 and was funded by sweat equity for several years until we launched our paid plans in 2022. We’re now a stable and profitable company, thanks to you.

No. We use AI coding tools responsibly, making sure there’s always a real software engineer who owns the code end-to-end. We have no AI mandates or other nonsense.

Yes. Our app has full feature parity across MacOS, Windows, and Linux. No OS is an afterthought.

2019 was the first commit into the Beekeeper Studio repo, we soft launched a year later in 2020, and it’s been non-stop growth since then. I guess other developers wanted an easy-to-use database manager too :-).