Wall Check
Corteza
Every feature ships in the free Apache-2.0 codebase — what you trade is a generic record-value storage model and a project still on the 2024.9 release line.
Gates 2/5 2 of the five walls fired — the score is a count, not a verdict.
Checked 2026-09-25 · re-check due 2026-11-24.
The five walls
✓ Price wall
The free tier ends. The limit you hit while everything still looks free.
Apache-2.0 with no paid feature tier — self-hosting costs $0 in license fees; Planet Crust monetizes hosted cloud only (from $132/mo per 25 users).
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✓ Permission wall
You can see the setting but not touch it. Licenses and admin roles decide what you control.
No open-core split: role-based access, record-level security and workflow automation are all in the free codebase — there is no enterprise edition to unlock.
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✓ Gate wall
A human at the vendor decides your timeline — approvals, reviews, onboarding queues.
No license keys, registration or approval queue — documented offline deployment, including a multi-image PostgreSQL compose, for fully self-run installs.
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! Meter wall
Cost scales with your success. Per-unit, per-seat, per-message pricing that grows as you do.
Self-host meters nothing in software; hosted cloud meters users in flat blocks ($132/mo for 25 users, up to 250 on Enterprise). Automation scripts run in a separate Corredor Node.js service on your infra.
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! Exit wall
Getting out costs more than getting in. Your data, your domain, your number — who keeps them.
Custom-module records default to shared generic value tables (dedicated tables exist via DAL config) — leaving means their export tooling or pivot queries, not a flat SELECT.
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The twelve questions
- What is the hard number where the free tier ends?
- $0 all features (Apache-2.0); hosted from $132/mo per 25 users
- What do the forum’s newest posts say about real queue time?
- Newest release line is 2024.9 — latest patch 2024.9.10 (Aug); no 2025+ line shipped
Documents read for this check: license file, releases, pricing page, docs.
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