License
Ovira is free for small setups and paid beyond that. A license sets how many active clients, nodes and panel accounts you can have, and whether reseller accounts are available. The License page shows your plan and limits, sells and renews plans, and moves a license between servers. This page covers the plans, buying and renewing, moving a license, and what the panel does when a license ends.
Plans
Without a license the panel runs on the Free plan: 5 active clients, 2 nodes and one panel account. A paid plan raises those limits. The plans on offer, with their prices, are on the License page. At the time of writing they are:
| Plan | Active clients | Nodes | Panels at once | Panel accounts | Reseller accounts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | no |
| Starter | 200 | 3 | 1 | 2 | no |
| Pro | 800 | 10 | 2 | 5 | yes |
| Business | unlimited | unlimited | 3 | unlimited | yes |
Plans and prices can change, so treat the License page as the current list. A plan includes all updates for as long as it runs.
What the limits count:
- Active clients are clients that are enabled and not past their end date, including those waiting for their first connection. Disabled and expired clients kept for your records do not count. A client that has used all its traffic still counts until you disable it or it expires.
- Nodes are the servers you connect. The panel's own server, This server, is not counted.
- Panel accounts are the accounts under Panel accounts.
- Panels at once is how many panels may use the same license key at the same time.
The License page
The card at the top shows:
| Item | What it shows |
|---|---|
| State | Free, Active, Expired, Not valid, Suspended or Check failed. |
| Plan | The plan name, or Free plan. |
| Licensed to | The holder of the license. |
| Valid until | The end date, with the days left. |
| Key | The license key, partly hidden. |
| Limits | Active clients, Nodes and Panel accounts, each as used and allowed, with a bar. |
Last checked and Check now appear for licenses bought online. Check now asks the license service for the current state. The page also shows This server's machine ID, which identifies the server a license is issued for.
Only owners can buy, renew, enter a key or remove a license.
Buy or renew
- Open License.
- Under Billing period, choose 1 month, 3 months or 12 months. Longer periods save on Pro and Business; Starter costs the same per month.
- On the plan you want, press Buy. On your current plan the button is Renew; on another plan it is Switch to this plan.
- Choose the Payment method: USDT on TRON (TRC20), or Other cryptocurrencies through the NOWPayments page. Enter an optional Telegram or email contact for support with this purchase.
- Press Pay, then pay as the page says. For USDT, send exactly the amount shown, including the decimals, to the address shown, on the TRC20 network only. Funds sent on another network are lost, and the exact amount is how the payment is matched to you.
- Wait for the payment to be confirmed. The license activates by itself.
Renewing adds the paid time to what is left. Switching plans applies the new limits at once. Closing the payment window does not cancel the order: it keeps waiting in the background, and Cancel this order stops offering it. Purchase history lists every order with its Status: Paid, Waiting for payment, Expired, Failed or Cancelled. From it you can Continue payment, or Install again for a paid order whose license did not install.
If online payment is not available, the page says so and shows a Support link.
Enter a key bought elsewhere
Under Enter a license key, paste the key into License key and press Activate. Keys bought on the page install themselves.
Move a license to another server
A license key can run on as many panels at once as its plan allows. To move it:
- On the old panel, open License and press Remove license. The panel asks for confirmation, and the old panel falls back to the free plan. The freed place may not be usable by another panel straight away.
- On the new panel, open License, paste the key into License key and press Activate.
If the key is already running on as many panels as it allows, Activate fails and lists those panels with the time each was last seen. Remove the license from one of them first, then try again later. If it still fails, contact support from the License page.
Install each panel separately and activate it with the key.
When a license ends
When a paid license expires or is suspended, the panel becomes read-only. Your tunnels keep running and clients connect within the plan's limits, but you cannot create or change clients, inbounds or nodes. A red banner says Your license has expired, so changes are paused until it is renewed. The License page stays available, so you can renew from it. When the renewal goes through, changes work again.
A panel that has not been able to reach the license service for too long also pauses changes. The page says This server has not reached the license server for too long, so changes are paused. Check that the server has internet access, then press Check now. A license that is Not valid or Suspended shows the reason on the card.
When the free limits apply
The free limits apply when no license is installed, when you remove one, and while a new key has not been activated yet. If you use more than the free plan allows, the extras stop working:
- Clients beyond the limit cannot connect. The oldest clients, up to the limit, keep working.
- Nodes beyond the limit stop serving traffic.
- Panel accounts beyond the limit cannot sign in. The first owner account always can.
WARNING
Removing a license while you have more than 5 active clients stops the extra clients from connecting. Remove it when you are ready to activate the key elsewhere, and disable the clients you do not need first.
Related pages
- Panel accounts: the account limit and reseller accounts.
- Nodes: the node limit.
- Move the panel: moving a panel together with its license.
- Troubleshooting: license messages by symptom.