Planned commercial model
Pricing and licensing
Two pricing models.
Personal use is a flat subscription with no percentage-of-savings fee. Business and enterprise licensing is designed around a 50/50 share of verified qualifying savings. This does not mean ByteLite guarantees a 50% reduction in total costs.
Flat subscription
Personal ByteLite
$9.99 / month
or
$99.99 / year
The annual plan replaces twelve monthly payments of $9.99 ($119.88), saving $19.89.
Predictable flat-rate ByteLite access for personal use.
No percentage-of-savings fee. What you pay does not change with the size of a file or how much ByteLite saves on it.
Subject to reasonable personal-use and service-capacity limits.
Value-based licensing
Business and enterprise
50% of verified qualifying savings
The customer retains the other 50%. No verified qualifying saving means no savings-share fee attributable to that saving.
Value-based licensing for commercial workloads. ByteLite receives 50% of verified qualifying savings; the customer retains the other 50%.
- Businesses and commercial data workloads
- Enterprise infrastructure
- Cloud, storage and network integrations
- Large-scale licensed deployment
Personal use is a flat subscription.
$9.99 a month, or $99.99 a year. That is the whole price.
A personal workload can be a single very large file. Billing a percentage of savings on that could turn one ordinary afternoon into an unexpectedly large charge, so personal accounts are not billed that way at all. There is no savings-share fee on a personal subscription, and the price does not move with how much ByteLite saves.
The annual plan replaces twelve monthly payments of $9.99, which total $119.88, and so saves $19.89.
Subject to reasonable personal-use and service-capacity limits.
Business licensing shares verified savings.
For commercial workloads, ByteLite receives 50% of verified qualifying savings and the customer retains the other 50%.
The split is of the savings, not of your costs. If a workload saves you money against an agreed baseline, we take half of that measured saving and you keep the other half. If it saves you nothing, the fee is nothing.
This page used to carry a worked example with dollar figures in it. I removed it. Every number in it was invented, and an invented number laid out like an invoice reads as something ByteLite has already done for somebody. It has not. When there is a real measured result, it will appear here with the measurement behind it.
The rule that matters most.
No verified saving means no savings-share fee for that saving.
The fee is a share of savings that were measured against an agreed baseline. If a workload produces no verified qualifying saving, that workload produces no savings-share fee. This is deliberately the opposite of paying for a promise.
It also means the model only makes sense once ByteLite can actually be measured in a real environment — which is a validation question, not a pricing one.
How a savings-share account would settle.
Settlement for savings-share accounts is not yet built. Invoicing and prepaid arrangements are both possible, and the choice will be made with the first commercial customer rather than announced in advance. Personal subscriptions bill on an ordinary recurring cycle.
There is no live billing on this site. Founder reservations record interest and do not charge anything. See founder access for the current state of each product.
Availability.
ByteLite is research under validation. It is not production-qualified, and no technology on this site is available to license today. The model above describes how licensing is intended to work when it is.
Organizations who want to be part of that conversation early — particularly anyone able to independently validate a specific claim — are the most useful people to hear from.