Free access is cheap to hand out and expensive to waste. Iternal runs three routes that cost a buyer nothing, and each settles a different question: does the assistant do what the demonstration showed, does it run on hardware you already own, can your developers work with the ingestion method first. The practical question comes first — how do we get hands on it, and who signs up?
Trials & Community Editions
How Do You Get a Free Trial or Community Edition
of Private AI Software?
Three routes into Iternal software that cost nothing: what each entitles you to, who signs up, and how a free license becomes a paid one.
Built from real buyer questions in our sales meetings
Direct Answer
Three no-cost routes, chosen by what you are testing. A 30-day trial license comes from the registration form on the Iternal site, which issues the license and the installer together. An extended trial travels with qualifying devices and can be activated onward when it ends. A community edition of the Blockify ingestion pipeline is free for developers, with a revenue threshold above which it must be licensed.
The limit: the term follows the program, and the download does not demonstrate itself. The 30-day license is fixed; the extended term is set by whichever promotion the device qualifies under, so pin the dates down in writing. Installing is not the same as demonstrating — elements are added after installation, no model rides inside the installer, and a download page has failed on someone who had signed up. Budget assisted onboarding into any trial you intend to judge the product on.
What to settle before anyone registers. The AirgapAI trial build is fully featured. The license sits on the device rather than the person, each user registers on their own machine, and it switches itself off at term end whether or not the software is still installed. Purchases run through the partner that supplied the trial. The questions below turn each into a written answer.
Entitlement, not installation. Eligibility, terms and conversion are settled above. For more information on getting the software running once the license is issued, visit the install and onboarding page; for a guided walkthrough first, visit the demo and proof page.
Three Routes That Cost You Nothing
The routes differ in who they target, not in how much product they expose.
| Route | Who it is for | What arrives | The term |
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| The 30-day trial license | Any prospect, direct from the form | License, installer for Windows or macOS, package and data sets | 30 days |
| The device-bundled trial | Buyers of qualifying AI PCs and servers, via the reseller | The same application, entitled on hardware already ordered | Extended, set by the program — get the dates in writing |
| Community Blockify | Developers evaluating the ingestion method | The documentation and method, as a skill for a coding agent | Free below the revenue threshold |
The channel has a fourth path: Iternal issues not-for-resale licenses so partners can run AirgapAI themselves.
Pin it down: questions for your evaluation
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What are the exact start and end dates of the trial term on the devices we are buying?The one figure that moves between programs, fixed before the evaluation clock starts.
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What onboarding help comes with the trial, and who runs it?Whether the evaluation gets past installation to something that speaks to your own material.
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Which model will we load, and how does it reach the machines?The step the installer does not perform for you, planned before day one.
The Community Edition: What Ships and What Does Not
Iternal released a community edition of Blockify for the developer community, free for development, testing and personal exploration. Above a million dollars in revenue it has to be licensed.
What the release contains matters more than its price. The community edition is the documentation and the thinking behind Blockify, packaged as a skill for a coding agent — a guide that teaches a model to create its own blocks. Iternal’s fine-tuned Blockify model is not part of it. Developers who want to read the method and rebuild it have what they need; anyone expecting the trained model in that download is hunting for something never in it. Hosted access to the Blockify API is separate again: registration, an emailed confirmation code and a card on file.
Who Signs Up, and What the Form Asks For
Sign-up is individual, and deliberately so. AirgapAI is downloaded through a registration form, so each person who wants a copy visits the site from their own computer and downloads it there. Several colleagues can register independently.
The form is short, and one field is worth your attention. It takes contact details, a checkbox for the 30-day trial license, and which reseller the customer bought from, so the right partner is notified. Submitting it issues the license and the installer, and the download delivers the package with its data sets. A personal name with the firm as the business is fine. The free-text box asking how you intend to use the software is the one people skip and should not: it lets Iternal put the right onboarding behind the request.
AirgapAI does not phone home. The license key it issues is verified offline by the application against a public key baked into it, so there is no activation server and no license check crossing the network — which also makes that form the only record of who holds a copy. Expect IT people rather than line-of-business buyers, and a handful of machines before anything broader.
From Free License to Paid License
Nothing is withheld during the trial and nothing is added at purchase. Conversion is commercial rather than technical: you buy the continuation of what you ran.
- The clock is real. The license switches itself off when the term ends, whether or not the software is still installed. Land the decision before that date.
- A bundled trial converts in place. The entitlement arrives with the device and the user activates it onward.
- The paperwork runs through the channel. End customers buy through the partner that provided the trial, on a purchase order, and license registration goes to the email address on that order.
- The sequence is small, then wide. Trial, buy a few licenses, cascade to a bigger group on good feedback.
Requests raised during a trial can be built quickly rather than queued behind a numbered release. For more information on license cost, visit the licensing models page.
Entitlement, Not Installation
Free access settles who is entitled and on what terms. Everything after the license is issued is a different job.
Answered elsewhere
- Getting the software running and a first user productive — see the install and onboarding page.
- A guided walkthrough against your own material — see the demo and proof page.
- Whether to assemble something equivalent from open tooling — see the build-or-buy comparison.
- Proof from organizations already running this — see the references page.
- Where a local assistant earns its place beside tools you already pay for — see the overlap with tools you already own.
FAQ
FAQ: Free Access, Terms and Sign-Up
Yes. Each person downloads from their own computer, because the license sits on the device rather than the person. A co-branded reseller link works with the account somebody already holds: a tracking code inside it applies the branding at sign-up.
The license issued from the registration form runs 30 days. The extended trial traveling with qualifying devices is longer, and its length is set by the promotion that device qualifies under rather than by one published number — so get the dates in writing from the partner selling you the hardware.
No. The community release is the documentation and the thinking behind Blockify, packaged as a skill for a coding agent that teaches a model to create its own blocks. Iternal’s fine-tuned Blockify model is not part of it. It is free for development, testing and personal exploration; above a million dollars in revenue it must be licensed.
No — the trial version is fully featured, so what you evaluate is what you would buy. The gap is setup, not function: no model rides inside the installer, and elements are added after installation before it shows what the software does with your material.
It turns itself off at the end of the term, whether or not the software is still installed, so there is no quiet grace period. A device-bundled entitlement can be activated onward. Purchases run through the partner that supplied the trial, on a purchase order.
One Machine, One Real Question
A trial earns its keep when it settles something. Pick the question your organization is arguing about, load the material it lives in, and give the evaluation a named owner and a date. Free access is the easy part.