Licensing Guide
Logster is offered under three license tiers — Trial, On-Prem, and SaaS — so you can start with a lightweight trial and then move to a production model that matches your data-residency and operations preferences.
For product-level positioning, see What is Logster. For quotes, custom integrations, or professional services, contact Logster Support at info@logster.ai.
At a glance
| Trial | On-Prem | SaaS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hosting | Logster SaaS lab | Your infrastructure | Vendor-hosted (AWS & GCP) |
| Data volume | 1 GB / day | Unlimited 1 | Volume-based, GB / day 2 |
| Data sources | Personal use only | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Term | 3-month license | Yearly subscription | Yearly subscription |
| Customer support | Not included | Included | Included |
| Professional services | — | On-demand | — |
| Deployment | Instant lab access | Self-managed | Free, managed by Logster |
Trial
A short, self-service trial for evaluating Logster.
- SaaS lab access — runs in a Logster-hosted lab environment; there is nothing to install.
- Personal use only — intended for individual evaluation, not production traffic.
- 1 GB / day ingestion cap.
- 3-month license.
- No support included.
Right when: you want to try Logster's detection on a small sample of logs before committing to a production tier.
On-Prem
A production license that runs entirely inside your own data center or cloud account.
- Unlimited data and unlimited data sources — ingest as much as your hardware supports. 1
- Yearly subscription.
- Customer support included.
- Professional services available on demand (deployment, integration, and tuning).
- Logs never leave your environment — the strongest data-privacy posture.
You own the infrastructure (CPU / GPU for inference, storage for Kafka + Elasticsearch) and scale it to your data volume. As a starting point, plan roughly 1.0 TB/day per NVIDIA H200 GPU; see Admin Guide: Hardware Requirements for the full per-node sizing.
Right when: data residency is non-negotiable, or your team already operates infrastructure at scale and prefers to keep detection inside your own perimeter.
SaaS
A fully managed, vendor-hosted deployment.
- Volume-based pricing — billed by data volume in GB / day. 2
- Free deployment — Logster provisions and operates the stack.
- Unlimited data sources.
- Yearly subscription.
- Customer support included.
- AWS & GCP deployment.
You bring the endpoint collectors and data-source configuration; Logster runs everything else.
Right when: you want the fastest time-to-value without standing up or operating an on-prem stack.
Feature parity
On-Prem and SaaS deliver the same detection capability — same models, same pipeline, same console, same API. The difference is who runs the infrastructure and how data volume is handled. The Trial exposes the same product, capped to a small daily volume for evaluation.
Ethical license enforcement
Logster follows an ethical license enforcement policy:
Logster's license never interrupts real-time log ingestion or threat detection. Volume limits are still applied in the background. Customers who repeatedly exceed their limits are expected to contact Support to extend or upgrade the license.
In practice this means:
- If your traffic briefly spikes above a daily volume cap (for example the Trial 1 GB/day), Logster keeps detecting. You do not lose visibility because of a billing check.
- Over-limit ingestion is tracked and reported back for review.
- Repeatedly exceeding the cap triggers a conversation with Support about upgrading or renewing — not a cutoff.
Hardware expectations
Hardware sizing applies to the On-Prem tier, where you run the infrastructure. Logster runs on two nodes — an App Node and a GPU Node. As a rule of thumb, plan roughly 1.0 TB/day per NVIDIA H200 GPU, and see Admin Guide: Hardware Requirements for the full per-node CPU, RAM, disk, and GPU requirements.
SaaS removes this concern — Logster sizes and operates the infrastructure, and cost scales with your data volume.
Choosing a tier
- Start with the Trial to evaluate Logster on a small sample.
- Move to On-Prem for maximum data control and unlimited volume on your own hardware.
- Choose SaaS to skip infrastructure entirely and pay by volume.
To start a trial, upgrade, or renew, contact Logster Support at info@logster.ai.