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Alejandro
Verified reviewer
Broadcast Media, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
Never being so glad with a 3rd party critical infrastructure provider!
Overall they are a great partner to trust all our licensing needs to. If you need to send them a support email, a senior technical staff member will answer back in no time. I can only hope that the Microsofts, Googles and AWS of the world would be as responsive and pro-customer as KeyGen is!
PROSIntegration with our product was fast, all the licensing requirements that we needed were easily implemented with KeyGen. Support to get this done was superb, documentation is clear, and they keep on adding features that we found appealing and thus allow us to improve our licensing model on a regular basis. Pricing is very reasonable and the platform is super reliable (HA)! We could not ask for more from KeyGen!
CONSThe built-in reporting tool could be more configurable, maybe have filters to see which licenses are due each week/month. But we can do those queries through the API, to feed a dashboard of our own, so not a real issue. When we started 3+ years algo implementing customized feature activation on a license and off-line licensing were not available. But all these have been addresses and now it rocks!
Reason for choosing Keygen
Nalpeiron yearly cost was $11k+ for our licensing needs, whereas KeyGen costs us less than $1K a year. At first we were scared that maybe KeyGen would not deliver what they promised, but we could not effort anything else, so we decided to test with one of our software offerings back in 2018. Fast forward to 2021 all our products are now licensed with KeyGen, we ditched USB dongles altogether and we are super happy with the outcome.
Reasons for switching to Keygen
We wanted to steer away from physical USB dongle based licensing to cloud based. Also those USB keys got hacked once, so it was a question of time until our software product would get compromised.
Coleman
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed May 2023
Keygen is the perfect solution for self-managed license integration
I like how robust the API is. And the documentation is very thorough. I had a custom WooCommerce plugin developed, to communicate with a custom solution on my licensing server, that interacts with Keygen to help manage our user's software license for macOS desktop apps
CONSI would like to be able to set up a notification system for errors in API requests
Reason for choosing Keygen
FastSpring and Paddle acts as Merchants of Service, and I didn't want my paying customers to in fact be paying another company or platform. I chose Keygen to keep everything under my company's control
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2022
Keygen is helpful for binary/release distribution
The team/[SENSITIVE CONTENT] is exceptionally responsive.
CONSIt's sometimes too slow to upload/download artifacts.
Cameron
Design, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2018
Keygen is tremendous, being easy to work with, flexible, and well documented.
Using Keygen saved me the trouble of building and maintaining my own licensing server and strategy. It is easy to work with, reliable, and affoardable.
PROSKeygen is one of the rare products that is legitimately satisfying to work with. It's obvious that the creator cares deeply about the quality of the product. From my own experience there are so many things that work well: - the interface is well designed - the API is flexible, logical and easy to work with - the documentation is clear and comprehensive - there are a wide array of well documented implementation examples on GitHub - the product is in active development - support is responsive and unusually helpful I'm the solo designer/developer of a well known design tool. When I decided to switch to subscription pricing, I began building my own licensing server. Part way through the process I learned about Keygen. After reading through the documentation and speaking to support about my goals, I immediately abandoned my own licensing server in favor of cloud functions and Keygen. I have zero regrets.
CONSSince Keygen is billed monthly, it's most viable for services that also have some sort of recurring billing, or that have a reliable revenue stream. Hobbyist developers will probably have a hard time justifying the cost, despite how good the product is. I mention this more as a heads-up to those investigating than as a negative, as I don't think there would be any other way for Keygen to make money that would also be useful for one-time-purchase software.
Assaf
Verified reviewer
Animation, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Keygen is highly recommended
I found Keygen to be incredibly comprehensive and reliable. The documentation is extremely detailed and provides all information needed to implement a licensing solution. The product is dynamic and allows flexibility and customization in implementation. All features documented behave exactly as described, and the code examples for every single action are very comfortable to work with. Customer support is excellent. I highly recommend it.
PROSThe documentation. The node-based approach provides many solutions to a single problem. The control panel is very user-friendly, intuitive, and easy on the eyes. The entire product is very consistent in approach, which makes implementation very intuitive.
CONSThe only thing I found to be a disadvantage is the lack of batch-processing ability. There isn't a way through the control panel to perform actions on multiple objects at once. Also, I think that maybe the metrics dashboard would have been nicer if there was full history data as well as an ability to search/customize graphed data according to needs.
ALEX
Broadcast Media, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2018
Software licensing made simple, professionally and at a reasonable cost
We have a great product for a specific market. We did not want to develop an entire licensing solution from scratch. As we though that thousands of other companies required software licencing too, there had to be a generic solution out there that addresses the problem. So we can invest our time developing our core software, and not the licensing for the product. Keygen resolved this problem beyond our expectations. Allowing us to have even more granularity that originally thought possible.
PROSKeygen has a price point that works for our business model. Flexible thanks to metadata fields for each object that you can use to customize your product features and requirements. Credit card integration to automate sale workflows. Simple to implement, super strong security and multiple licensing models supported. I've never been so happy to find a new product/service since I discovered Amazon!
CONSI spend weeks Googling for software licensing solutions on the cloud. I was only finding very expensive solutions, some of which try to charge you a percentage of the price of your product. Just ridiculous, it's more like a VAT charge proposition than anything else. But finding Keygen was really difficult. Maybe because the word Keygen is too generic for search engines, or maybe because we were not using the proper tags. But we found Keygen on a forum comment, not on Google. First time ever that this happens to us!
Sean
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Vertizan review of Keygeb
Excellent!
PROSEasy to use, very flexible and excellent value for money to secure our software user access
CONSUser Interface is quite basic but can quickly get used to it. Provides IP address of user and would prefer to have location filtered rather than having to look it up manually.
Reasons for switching to Keygen
Poor support, outdated and very expensive.
Ryan
Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Keygen makes software license management easy
Keygen has made it very easy for our small team to manage different software license types automatically, including trial licenses.
PROSEasy to implement, good tracking features, flexible for different license types. Easy to administer.
CONSKeygen is a little earlier on, the website UI could use a little work.
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed September 2018
Very good documentation & support
We have an up & running licensing system for our dekstop application (https://storepilot.com) with minimal work thx to keygen.
PROSDocumentation & support is really nice. Rest api documentation lives up to the newest standards, just like Stripe and WooCommerce. Easy integration with almost any type of software.
CONSReports endpoint is not yet available at this time, but developers said they collected data and would make available later & that was good news for uss. Also the website dashboard could need a better look & feel, but api is most important to uss & works well.
Constantin
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Best tool ever
- Great Dashboards - Easy to integrate - Allows you to bootstrap and increase base easily
CONS- nothing working with from the beginning was a blast
Vildan
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed January 2019
Licensing the way it should be
If you're building a new product, the last thing you want to think about is licensing. Especially all the crazy concepts like Node-locked, Floating etc. You're for sure gonna get it wrong in the begin and will have to experiment a lot. Keygen's flexible API and seemingly endless configuration options exactly allowed us to do so. Licensing was planned to make up at least 25% percent of planned dev time for our product so it's awesome to see that we've been able to cut it down to 2.5% with Keygen.
PROSThis product comes with great documentation and an extremely helpful support. As licensing is a highly important topic for a commercial product it's super nice to have somebody available listening to your questions and helping out with good ideas and suggestions. Thanks to the representatives. By far the best part though is that Keygen in the end of the day is nothing else than a Rest service. As such it is possible to integrate it with whatever technology you're using, as long as you can make HTTP requests. Moreover it was the only offering we found to suite our Electron based app.
CONSBeing located in US the server speeds and CDNs for EU and Asia aren't the best but it gets constantly better.
Floris
Media Production, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
The easiest way to implement a license server
Keygen excels in its simplicity, it does exactly what it's supposed to and nothing else. There is very little (if any) bloat which really helps cut down on complexity. It works like a train and the developers are super responsive to questions and feedback.
CONSReady-made SDK packages for popular programming languages would have made it easier to integrate into our systems. Also I would have happily paid a premium for a super-tight Stripe integration, there is a lot to build from scratch that presumably everybody has to build from scratch, like handling expired subscriptions events.
Anthony
Computer Software, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2018
Fantastic solution all-round. Highly Recommend it
Saved time, money and made our customers happy. My staff are able to manage licenses with ease
PROSThe sheer simplicity of it brings to licensing software. We were issuing licensing and validating them in minutes
CONSI can't really say I've experienced an issues with the solution. I would like to see more features like the ability to add metadata though the UI, however it's already on the roadmap!
Jared
Mining & Metals, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2018
Keygen has flexible license management options backed by great customer support
Overall a great product that enables quick license integration with a very easy to use API!
PROSKeygen is enabling us to very quickly get licensing off the ground for a reasonable price and with great customer support to answer any questions. It is easy to use with a well documented API and great examples, particularly for web applications. The documentation is available with examples for multiple programming languages and clearly walks through getting set up. The user control panel is very intuitive to use and manage users and licenses directly!
CONSThere are a few more web application examples than desktop examples. This is not a problem as the documentation is very easy to read for a desktop developer! Do not be afraid to dive into it!
Tung
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed November 2021
Highly recommend for software license management
It is very easy to implement and is very user-friendly. The product is very consistent and integration with all of our product was quick, simple and easy. The support for the software was great and they are very quick to assist with any concerns.
CONSThe price can seem pretty expensive especially for a small company. I do wish there was a trial to see if we as a company is compatible with the software. At times, I need feel like documentation could be better improved upon.
Raphael
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed August 2021
Keygen saves us time and headaches in selling licenses to our product
The API is easy to use and flexible to cover many licensing use cases. Make sure you understand all the options and reach out if anythingg is unclear. The price is appropriate.
PROSKeygen allowed us to easily distribute and maintain licenses and see their activation status. Support for air-gapped activation is imperative for our use case. There are templates that cover most use cases and usually get you 80% of the way.
CONSWhile generally easy to use, some concepts can be tricky to understand. There is an OK amount of documentation, but not always in quite the detail to make it clear. However, whenever we reached out we quickly received help.
Abdul Rahman
Verified reviewer
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2018
Great Product
- Ease of use - Ability to integrate it with most important programming languages - Great support - High security
CONSDocumentation can be further enhanced and new programming languages should be added to the documentation (e.g. Python)
Christopher
Arts and Crafts, 1 employee
Used less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Keygen
My whole experience with keygen has been good and accurate to get an activation of certain softwares
PROSThis software has a lot pros because is form to get an activation for certain softwares that you can afford
CONSThis software has cons like windows can be detect it like a virus or you can use it but the serial generate could recognize like a virus in your computer
Alex
Verified reviewer
Oil & Energy, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed March 2019
Finally!
For small & fast moving teams, licensing & user management has always been a pain - especially on multiple platforms. I was thrilled to archive our internal license management tools once we discovered and integrated keygen.
CONSWe still need to provide our own web application/interface for our customers to retrieve their license keys. It would be awesome to see Keygen solve this as well.
Anton
Computer Software, 1 employee
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2023
Love this keygen, useful and excellent protection.
Easy to use. I like the most is policies, machines, releases, licenses.
CONSDifficult to search the license key. I use CTRL+F to find it.
Anonymous
1 employee
Used monthly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed March 2020
Review for Keygen
I use this software to take serial num for civil3D . Easily I can do it using keygen
PROSKeygen is serial key generator.Using this software we can manage our license key easily. also it does not take long time for that.
CONSThere are not least thing about this software. But,There are not free trail for it. We do not use always this software. This use for when we want serial number. So that there should be free trail.
Kanwar
Civil Engineering, 1 employee
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed June 2019
Keygen is easy to use, inexpensive, and the support is great
It was simple to use, even for someone not from a computer science/programming background. Without it I would not have been able to get trial versions out to potential customers. The pricing structure is also very reasonable especially for our company where we are pre revenue.
CONSI would be great to see some Youtube videos explaining the various terms and setup.
Reason for choosing Keygen
Alternative products wanted upfront payments of $1000-3000, and pricing was bit of a black box. Also, their documentation and guides were harder to understand.
Sean
Airlines/Aviation, 11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed July 2021
Very easy to implement!
License activation and usage of our software products.
PROSVery easy to implement and very user friendly dashboard.
CONSWould be nice if there were a bit more flexibility in the licensing.
Anonymous
1 employee
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2018
easy to use keygen
easy use
PROSeasy use of wording to find product serial codes
CONSnot known yet waiting to try out the program that is available for trail