New licenses and renewals

Use of YourKit Java Profiler is governed by the end-user license agreement. If you can't find your answer here, please contact sales for assistance.

Seat license

Unlike floating license which counts running profiler instances, seat license counts the installed copies. Each seat license allows installation of one copy of the profiler. The installed copy may be used by one user at a time.

Single seat license with 1 year of support and upgrades

5 seats volume license with 1 year of support and upgrades

5 seats license includes additional volume discount. This is the most cost-effective option if you need a license for more than 2 seats.

Floating license

Unlike seat license which counts installed profiler copies, floating license counts the running profiler instances. Floating license allows to install as many copies as you wish, but the number of concurrent users (copies running at at time) may not exceed the number of purchased licenses.

Single floating user license with 1 year of support and upgrades

5 floating users volume license with 1 year of support and upgrades

5 floating users license includes additional volume discount. This is the most cost-effective option if you need a floating license for more than 1 user.

Floating license server

Floating licenses are managed by the license server. By default, YourKit offers cloud-based license server, which requires zero configuration and no maintenance efforts. Cloud-based floating license server is available for no additional cost during the period that the support contract is active. There is also an option to host the license server on-premise in your local network. The license server supports two operation modes:

Automatic license management. The default mode when a license is allocated when a user starts the profiler, and is automatically released when the profiler exits. In case of an abnormal profiler termination or network connectivity problems the license is released automatically after a certain time period and will become available to other users.

The automatic mode requires a network connection to the license server while working with the profiler.

License locking. A user may explicitly lock a license to his/her machine. The license will not be available to other users until the owner or the license administrator explicitly unlocks it.

While the license is locked, a network connection to the license server is not required to work with the profiler.

If you have several floating licenses, you may lock only some of them, on demand, e.g. when your team member has to work in a restricted network environment while traveling or at a customer site, while allowing the automatic management for others.

Enterprise license

For companies with more than 50 profiler installations, we would be happy to tailor a special the most cost-effective proposal. Please contact sales.

Academic license

Academic license is granted to accredited academic institution: public or private school, vocational school, correspondence school, junior college, university, scientific or technical institution. Academic license does not allow commercial use.

The installed copies of the software can be used only by students, faculty or staff of the academic institution to which the license was granted.

Single seat academic license with 1 year of support and upgrades

Each seat license allows installation of one copy of the profiler. The installed copy may be used by one user at a time.

Institution-wide academic license with 1 year of support and upgrades

Institution-wide license allows to install unlimited number of profiler copies within the academic institution.

Open source license

The license is granted to developers of non-commercial Open Source projects, with an established and active community. The license is free. However, we ask you to add a reference to YourKit website on the web pages of your Open Source project.

Please contact sales to obtain an open source license.

Support tiers

^* Term expired support is only applicable to the perpetual license. Subscription stops working if it is not renewed.

License comparison

The table below summarizes general differences between license models. For more details please read the end-user license agreement.

Licensing policy

The license allows you to run the purchased version of YourKit Java Profiler on any supported platform according to the support tier. For example, license with basic support tier allows to run profiler on Linux, macOS and Windows.

The license allows you to enable profiling in any number of Java applications simultaneously, i.e. run them with the profiler agent.

The license is non-transferable. A registered user is not allowed to transfer the license to other users.

Support renewal and upgrade policy

The active support contract allows access at no additional cost to all bug-fix updates and all major versions released within the support period.

The renewal discount is 40% if the renewal is purchased within the first year after the end of the support contract, 30% within the second year, and 20% if later. The discount amount is subject to change in the future.

Upgrade to version 2024.9

Upgrade to version 2024.9 is free if you have an active subscription, or if the support contact for your perpetual license has expired after September 30, 2024. If you qualify for the free upgrade, use your existing license key with the new version.

If your support contract expired on or before September 30, 2024, you are eligible for renewal discount.

Subscription cancellation

The customers from Germany have an ability to cancel the subscriptions using the MyCommerce cancellation form. If you are not from Germany and want to cancel your subscription, please contact sales.