Community Edition (CE)

Licensed under the AGPL, the  Community Edition is open source and available from community site. This edition is a single server edition which lacks some enterprise features such as clustering but is otherwise feature complete. The Community Edition is licensed under AGPL and thus AGPL restrictions apply. 

Who is it for? This edition if primarily targeted towards small developers that don't mind sharing their source, but can also be used for internal evaluation. This is your way of getting started without having to shell out for a license immediately.

Standard Edition (SE)

The Standard Edition is feature-equivalent of the Community Edition, but licensed under a proprietary  license. This is still a single server edition, but is suitable if you want to avoid the AGPL but do not need all the bells and whistles of the Enterprise Edition. Firebase SE is available in a free version up to 100 concurrent user. If you want to support more than 100 concurrent users you need purchase a commercial license.

Who is it for? This edition is indie developers and other small developers that does not want to share their code. It does not support transparent scalability and fail-over as the enterprise edition. It is also suitable for social games where a large number of parallel instances can support a huge number of players.

Enterprise Edition (EE)

The Enterprise Edition contains all features and is licensed under a proprietary license. This edition includes the high availability, transparent fail-over, scalability features and is appropriate if you're running a commercial, 1st grade enterprise.

Who is it for? If you have a huge existing player base, or if you intend to handle cash-transactions within the game, then this is your edition.

 For general information and pricing, please see our licensing page.