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Editions
Three ways to get Buff: the buff.systems cloud, the free Community Edition on your own machine, and Enterprise on-premise under contract. How they differ.
You can get Buff in three ways. The code is the same — what differs is the set of capabilities, where it is installed and the terms.
| SaaS — buff.systems | Community Edition | Enterprise on-premise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | in our cloud | on your machine | on your infrastructure |
| For whom | teams of any size | one organisation, internal needs | a corporate customer under contract |
| Price | per the plans | free | under contract |
| Organisations | as many as needed | 1 | several |
| Users | no limit | 3 | per licence |
| Concurrent developments (runners) | per plan | up to 15 (the administrator can lower it) | per licence |
| Models | ours, chosen by work class, rented capacity | one OpenAI-compatible endpoint per installation: OpenRouter, your own LiteLLM, vLLM… | your LiteLLM gateway with your providers and local models |
| Member roles and permissions | yes | no — everyone sees everything | yes |
| Single sign-on (SSO) | yes | no | yes, through Authentik to your IdP |
| Audit log | yes | no | yes |
| Billing | wallet, plans, top-ups | no | usage accounting without money |
| Registration | from the sign-in screen | no — the administrator creates users | by invitation or SSO |
| Email codes (2FA) | yes | no | yes |
| Documentation | built in | on this site | on this site |
| Support | per plan | not provided, questions in the repository | under contract; access for our operator — optional |
| Licence | public offer | perpetual, with terms | a fixed-term certificate, monthly |
| Air-gapped environment without internet | — | yes: images are carried over on media, the licence as a file | yes |
| How to get it | registration | installation | under contract |
How to choose
- You want to try it without installing anything, or you work as a distributed team — SaaS.
- You want the code and data to stay only with you, and three people and one organisation are enough — Community Edition. It is full-fledged development, “Ask”, research and the knowledge base on your model.
- You need several organisations, permissions, SSO, auditing, more people and runners, support or an air-gapped environment — Enterprise on-premise.
Community and Enterprise are installed on your side and check their licence with buff.systems once a day. Exactly four fields are sent: the installation identifier, the version, the number of users and the number of runners; on our side the address the check came from is recorded. The contents of repositories, tasks and documents do not leave your machine.