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CopilotKit Premium

Premium features for CopilotKit — commercial license, fully headless UI, observability hooks, hosted Copilot Cloud, and more.

What is CopilotKit Premium?#

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.

Info

The Developer tier of CopilotKit Premium is always free — sign up, grab your public license key, and you're done.

Premium plans#

  • 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

Early access#

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.

Current premium features#

  • Fully Headless Chat UI — Early Access
  • Observability Hooks
  • Copilot Cloud
  • Inspector — free to use with any valid public license key

Getting access#

Option 1: Copilot Cloud#

All Premium features are included with Copilot Cloud — sign up, deploy your runtime, and you're set.

Option 2: Self-host with a license key#

Access to Premium features requires a public license key. It's free.

Sign up#

Create a free account on Copilot Cloud. No credit card required, and you don't have to use Copilot Cloud itself.

Grab your public license key#

From the left nav in the Copilot Cloud dashboard.

Use it in your provider#

Pass your public license key to CopilotKit:

app/layout.tsx
tsx
<CopilotKit publicLicenseKey="your-public-license-key">
  {children}
</CopilotKit>

FAQs#

Can I still self-host with a public license key?#

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.

What's the difference between a public license key and a public API key?#

  • 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.

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