Free Enterprise Edition for personal use

[topiga]

Hello, dear Stalwart team!

Though I really enjoy your software, I have a small issue with it. The enterprise version for me, as a homelabber is quite expensive.
Pangolin (a drop-in replacement for cloudflare tunnels and tailscale) announced in October 2025 an Enterprise edition too, but they made it free for personal use (which I use).
I think this is a fantastic move, as it allows the community and homelabbers to use every part of the software, at least what doesn't need any cloud compute from your end, and of course without any additional support.

So yeah, this is a suggestion, do whatever you want with it, but if possible, I would absolutely love to be able to have these additional features with a lifetime personnal use license at ~100 dollars, a yearly ~20 dollars, or a completely free version (a sort of enterprise lite).
Bear in mind, this means additional features, but NO additional support, or anything that needs more work on your end.

Anyway, I really hope you will bless us with this feature. If (when, most likely) I start a company, I will certainly buy your software and recommend it (as I already do).

Wishing you all the best!

[ReubenBTalbott]

I would also love either a free personal use license with all/most features, or a one time purchase. I only need 5 or less addresses, most would be for automated server notifications in my use case.

[Raimiz]

I would also like to see a full version for personal use with at least 10 mailboxes. It's unusual to see empty dashboards. The Enterprise version starts at 25 mailboxes, which is more than enough for home/personal use.

[QVBU]

I agree with the comments above. 25 mailboxes is also overkill for us.

[MartB]

I bought the enterprise version as a home user as I want to support the project. But I agree having a stripped down home use license with only some of the current enterprise features would be great.

[l00v3]

Seriously people? 5$ per month is too much for you? That is a few coffees/teas per month. Then, in my opinion, you don't need enterprise version. The fact that this project even exists and it's free and open source in astonishing for me. But that is just my opinion.

[ReubenBTalbott]

I get where you're coming from, but for me my homelab is my fun project and I don't have any room in my budget for $60 a year (I've already given up going up for Tea or fast food)

Now I think offing a free limited license to the full project would be in Salwart Labs best interest, look at Portainer, they have a free license that is limited to 5 nodes. Hobbyist's use that and then since they know Portainer they use it at work and get their company to purchase a full enterprise license for the business.