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Quickstart: licensing

Time to first licensed run: about 6 minutes, plus the download. Runtime licenses explains the credential and Download the ClikaRT SDK the archive; this page is the short form.

  1. Issue. In the project, Licenses, Issue License, Online (the machine can reach the platform), keep the default entitlements, Issue license. Copy the CLIKA1- text from the result. Press the button once; a double click issues two.
  2. Download. Profile menu, Download ClikaRT, your platform, Command line only, CUDA by your driver (none without an NVIDIA GPU), Download; or clika-cli runtime-sdk download linux-amd64-cli ./clikart with a key that carries runtime_sdk:download.
  3. Verify and extract. Copy the SHA-256 from the dialog, check it, then extract:
echo "<sha256 you copied>  <archive>" | sha256sum -c
tar -xf <archive>

A Python build is a zip: unzip it, then pip install the wheels.

  1. License the runtime. For this shell:
export CLIKA_RT_LICENSE='<the CLIKA1- text>'

or once for your account, which prints the kind and the project:

./bin/clikart-license-init '<the CLIKA1- text>'
  1. Run.
./bin/clikart-cli HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M-Instruct prompt "Hello"

A licensed run prints the answer and nothing about the license. A refused one names the cause (no ClikaRT license is configured, LICENSE_STATE_BLOCKED after a revocation, ENTITLEMENT_DENIED when the license does not permit this machine, PHONE_HOME_STALLED when an Online license cannot reach the platform); License the runtime is the contract.

  1. Watch it stop. Revoke the license on the Licenses page (type the project's name). A running serve is refused at its next check with the platform, within about five minutes, as LICENSE_STATE_BLOCKED: runtime key revoked; a short prompt that starts and ends between two checks can still complete. An Offline bundle keeps working until it expires.

Limits you may meet: your plan caps the active Offline bundles across the organization (the refusal names the limit); every license's expiry is bounded by the plan's end; an API key cannot issue, rotate or revoke, so the CLI and an assistant read licenses and do not mint them.