| title | CopilotKit Premium |
|---|---|
| icon | lucide/Star |
| description | Premium features for CopilotKit — commercial license, fully headless UI, observability hooks, hosted Copilot Cloud, and more. |
CopilotKit Premium plans deliver:
- A commercial license for premium extensions to the open-source CopilotKit framework (self-hosted or via Copilot Cloud)
- Access to the Copilot Cloud hosted service
Premium is designed for teams building production-grade, agent-powered applications with CopilotKit. Extension features — such as Fully Headless UI and debugging tools — can be used in both self-hosted and cloud-hosted deployments.
The **Developer tier** of CopilotKit Premium is always free — sign up, grab your public license key, and you're done.- Developer — free forever, includes early-stage access and limited cloud usage
- Pro — for growing teams building in production
- Enterprise — for organizations with advanced scalability, security, and support needs
Certain features — like the fully headless chat hook — are initially available only to Premium subscribers before becoming part of the open-source core as the framework matures. All Premium subscribers get early access to new features, tooling, and integrations as they ship.
- Fully Headless Chat UI — Early Access
- Observability Hooks
- Copilot Cloud
- Inspector — free to use with any valid public license key
All Premium features are included with Copilot Cloud — sign up, deploy your runtime, and you're set.
Access to Premium features requires a public license key. It's free.
### Sign upCreate a free account on Copilot Cloud. No credit card required, and you don't have to use Copilot Cloud itself.
### Grab your public license keyFrom the left nav in the Copilot Cloud dashboard.
### Use it in your providerPass your public license key to CopilotKit:
<CopilotKit publicLicenseKey="your-public-license-key">
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</CopilotKit>Yes. Self-hosting with a license key is fully supported — the key is only required if you want Premium features. For Copilot Cloud specifically you use a separate publicApiKey.
- Public API key — connects your app to Copilot Cloud (the hosted service).
- Public license key — unlocks Premium features (inspector, headless UI, observability hooks) and doesn't require Copilot Cloud.
You can have either one, both, or neither — they serve different purposes.