How much does Indigo Cost?
A new Indigo license is $199.95USD and includes a 1-year Indigo Up-to-Date (UTD) subscription (see What is Indigo Up-to-Date below). You can purchase a new license from your Indigo Account.
Indigo licenses are a modified perpetual use license: you may use the version of Indigo that you purchased, or any version that is released during your free UTD subscription period for as long as you like without further payments. If you purchase an UTD subscription after the free period, you will be entitled to any release shipped during that period. Check out the next section for a description of the UTD subscriptions and how they work.
What is Indigo Up-to-Date?
Here are the features of your Indigo Up-to-Date subscription:
- Unlike some other software subscription models, an active Indigo Up-to-Date subscription is not required to use your purchased Indigo license (see How it works below for details).
- A one year Up-to-Date subscription is included with all Indigo purchases (full or upgrade, though some customers receiving free Indigo upgrades from Indigo 6 may receive a shorter free period depending on the age of the Indigo 6 license)
- Up-to-Date subscriptions entitle you to all feature releases delivered during the subscription period.
- Up-to-Date subscriptions include an Indigo Reflector for remote access (see the Indigo Reflectors documentation for details).
- Up-to-Date subscriptions include Alexa voice control.
- After the included first year is over, you will need to renew your subscription (currently $64.95USD - check our blog for any pricing updates) to continue to receive the features above.
- Bug fix releases will continue to be free after your subscription expires, but only for the feature release (i.e. .3 or .4, etc) of Indigo you were last entitled to use when the subscription expired (see How it works below for details).
- In order to receive future feature releases (2024.2 or 2025.1) you must maintain an ongoing and uninterrupted Up-to-Date subscription from the time of purchase.
- Expired subscriptions can be “caught up” within 12 months of expiration, but the subscription expiration/renewal date is always based on the original subscription time window in order to maintain the uninterrupted subscription period (again, see How it works below).
- If a subscription's expiration date is older than 12 months, then a new license purchase is required to get the latest version (there is no upgrade pricing available).
How it works
To explain how it works, let's look at an example (dates and versions are mostly fictional):
On Nov. 3, 2024, you purchase an Indigo license (v2024.1.0 is the shipping release). That purchase includes a one year Indigo Up-to-Date subscription that entitles you to all upgrades (major and bug fixes) that we will release from Nov. 3, 2024 until Nov. 2, 2025.
On Nov. 21, 2024, we release a new version, v2024.1.1. This is just bug fixes so you are entitled to it.
On April 27, 2025, we deliver a feature release, v2025.1.0, which contains support for new devices and device types, support for a new macOS release, perhaps adds some other functionality, etc. Because your Up-to-Date subscription is current (in this case, you are still in the free period, but would apply to a paid subscription as well), you are entitled to this upgrade as well. This continues throughout the life of your Indigo Up-to-Date subscription (ending Nov. 2, 2025) .
On Nov. 2, 2025, your Up-to-Date subscription expires and, for whatever reason, you don't renew your subscription. The current version of Indigo at that time is v2025.2.3. Your Indigo Reflector, will become unavailable the next day (Nov. 3, 2025). Alexa will stop working as well so you won't have voice control. You will, however, be able to continue using your current version of Indigo indefinitely - just without the extras included in the subscription.
On July 2, 2025, we release a bug fix release, v2025.2.4, which contains some bug fixs and perhaps a new model definition for an existing Z-Wave device. You are entitled to that release because bug fix builds are always free within a specific year/major version.
On Feb. 7, 2026, we release v2026.1.0, which contains a brand new plugin for the latest cool smarthome device. You are not entitled to this version because your subscription expired before we delivered this feature release. For all intents and purposes, v2025.2 (including all subsequent bug fix builds) is the last version you will be able to use unless you renew your subscription.
If you had updated your subscription, you would be entitled to v2026.1.0 and any other feature releases that we delivered during the following year (Nov. 3, 2025 through Nov. 2, 2026).
For the first year after your subscription expires, you may catch up your Up-to-Date subscription at any time. In this example the subscription renewal will cover Nov. 3, 2025 through Nov. 2, 2026, regardless of when you purchase it during that period of time. Essentially, you’re catching up your expired subscription to the current version, which includes all releases we delivered during that period of time. Note that if you catch up on the day before the catch-up period would expire, you will incur two charges within 2 days: one for the catch-up and another on the following day for the next year.
If, however, you don't catch up your subscription within one year of your previous subscription expiring (a full two years after the purchase of Indigo), then you'll need to repurchase Indigo to start a new subscription. We may offer a small discount to upgrade from the previous version, but it will not be what we have historically offered, probably more in the 10% off range. We believe that any upgrades that are older than two years and haven't had an active subscription basically constitute a new purchase.
You will not be forced to have an active subscription. As you can see from above, if you don’t renew your subscription, you will be forever entitled to use v2025.2 (whatever bug fix builds are available for it). This is unlike subscription models some big software companies use, where you must have an active subscription to use the software.