Open, free and paid
Every plugin is exactly one of three things, decided at build time.
Every plugin in the family is exactly one of three things. It is decided per plugin, applied at the point it is built, and it does not change with who is using it or which project it is in.
| Source | Cost | Where you get it | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Public, mirrored on every release | Free | A public mirror, and the public releases repository |
| Free | Stays private | Free | The account app, and the hub |
| Paid | Stays private | Paid | The account app |
The rule
If it runs on your own machine and costs us nothing to operate, it stays open and useful on its own.
Paid value begins only where we operate something on your behalf — today that is chiefly the production-grade plugins; tomorrow it is the shared workspace the whitepaper calls Kovati Pro.
Free-but-closed plugins sit in between. They are free to use, but the implementation is closed, usually because they wrap a provider's own SDK or container image, or because they were written from the start as a paid plugin's neighbour rather than extracted from an open core.
Whichever tier a plugin is, it goes through the same door: nothing installs without an account. A free plugin is added with one click; a paid one is bought once. See accounts.
Every plugin, by tier
Open source (25)
Apache-2.0. The source is published to a public mirror on every release, and the package carries it.
| Plugin | Set | Role | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationForgeHub | AutomationForge | hub | 0.2.4 |
| AutomationForgeToolset | AutomationForge | toolset | 0.1.1 |
| FaceForge | FaceForge | core | 0.2.2 |
| FaceForgeACEToolset | FaceForge | toolset | 0.1.1 |
| FaceForgeMetaHuman | FaceForge | adapter | 0.2.1 |
| FaceForgeToolset | FaceForge | toolset | 0.2.2 |
| MeshForge | MeshForge | core | 0.3.0 |
| MeshForgeGarmentToolset | MeshForge | toolset | 0.1.0 |
| MeshForgeToolset | MeshForge | toolset | 0.3.0 |
| MeshForgeTrellisToolset | MeshForge | toolset | 0.0.3 |
| MeshWeightRemap | Tools | core | 0.1.2 |
| MeshWeightRemapToolset | Tools | toolset | 0.1.1 |
| MontageForge | MontageForge | core | 0.1.2 |
| MontageForgeToolset | MontageForge | toolset | 0.1.2 |
| MotionForge | MotionForge | core | 0.4.0 |
| MotionForgeKimodoToolset | MotionForge | toolset | 0.3.2 |
| MotionForgeQualityToolset | MotionForge | toolset | 0.1.2 |
| MotionForgeToolset | MotionForge | toolset | 0.3.0 |
| MotionForgeUthana | MotionForge | provider | 0.2.0 |
| PerformanceForgeToolset | PerformanceForge | toolset | 0.1.1 |
| SpeechForge | SpeechForge | core | 0.2.2 |
| SpeechForgeElevenLabs | SpeechForge | provider | 0.1.1 |
| SpeechForgeToolset | SpeechForge | toolset | 0.2.2 |
| SurfaceForge | SurfaceForge | core | 0.1.1 |
| SurfaceForgeToolset | SurfaceForge | toolset | 0.1.1 |
Free, closed source (9)
Free to use. The implementation stays private — usually because it wraps a provider SDK or container image, or was written as a paid plugin’s neighbour rather than extracted from an open core.
| Plugin | Set | Role | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationForge | AutomationForge | core | 0.1.1 |
| AutomationForgePipelines | AutomationForge | addon | 0.1.1 |
| FaceForgeACE | FaceForge | provider | 0.2.2 |
| MeshForgeCloud | MeshForge | provider | 0.3.0 |
| MeshForgeTrellis | MeshForge | provider | 0.0.3 |
| MotionForgeKimodo | MotionForge | provider | 0.5.0 |
| MotionForgeQuality | MotionForge | addon | 0.1.2 |
| SurfaceForgeLocal | SurfaceForge | provider | 0.1.1 |
| SurfaceForgePatina | SurfaceForge | provider | 0.1.1 |
Paid (3)
Bought once on the account app. Published to a private releases repository, never to the public one.
| Plugin | Set | Role | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| MeshForgeGarment | MeshForge | post | 0.2.0 |
| PerformanceForge | PerformanceForge | core | 0.1.1 |
| SpeechForgeDeepL | SpeechForge | provider | 0.1.2 |
A toolset beside a paid plugin is still open
You will notice PerformanceForgeToolset in the public releases repository
next to a paid PerformanceForge. That is correct and not a leak.
The MCP surface is the point of publishing a toolset — an agent's ability to discover and call the same operations a person can is a first-class commitment, not a bonus. The toolset adds no capability of its own; it projects the core's. Publishing the projection while the core stays closed costs nothing and buys inspectability.
What actually differs in the package
CI strips Source/Private and every .cpp from a non-open package. A free or
paid package carries binaries and public headers; an open one carries its
source.
That is enforced at build time, not by policy: the build fails if a .cpp
reaches a closed package.
Nothing is on Fab
"Fab" here is a licensing tier in our register, not a shop we are listed on.
There is no Automation Forge listing on Fab today. We will not write that a plugin is available there until one exists. If you bought something from us on Fab, you bought it from someone else.
The tier is named that way because it describes plugins packaged under terms suitable for a Fab listing — free to use, source closed. The name is a historical artefact of planning a listing before making one, and it is the kind of thing honesty as a working practice exists to catch.
Licences
- Open plugins are Apache-2.0, and the
LICENSEfile ships in the package. - Paid plugins carry proprietary terms, and that
LICENSEfile ships too. - Free, closed plugins carry no licence file today.
Unreal Engine is a trademark of Epic Games, Inc. Automation Forge is an independent product and is not endorsed by Epic Games, Inc.