Perpetual fallback license is a license that allows you to use specific version of software, without an active subscription to it. Whenever you purchase a perpetual fallback license you get one year of software updates included. You can purchase additional updates if required. Typical price for one year update package is 1199 USD.

Example 1: Let’s assume you purchased one license for ThingsBoard v2.4 in June 2019 and received an update to ThingsBoard v3.0 in May 2020. This means you can continue

 

using this ThingsBoard v3.0 instance forever. You can also migrate to different hardware without issues.

Example 2: Let’s assume you purchased one license for ThingsBoard v2.4 in June 2019 and received an update to ThingsBoard v3.0 in May 2020. This means you can continue using this ThingsBoard v3.0 instance forever. Later, in August 2020 we released v3.1. In order to get the v3.1 update, you will need to purchase an additional year of software updates for ThingsBoard PE which will cost 1199 USD. However, you can continue using v3.0 without updates.