Editions & pricing

Milda follows an open-core model: the language and the React generator are open, while the editor, hosted infrastructure, and premium generators are the commercial product. Authors pay; consumers are always free.

#Who pays

The value metric is the editor seat. A small number of people design the system; the whole front-end org consumes it. So Milda charges the designers/maintainers and keeps consumers — anyone running npm install — free and unlimited.

#What's open vs. commercial

• Open: the IR spec and @milda/core, and the React generator + CLI. Client-side, zero infrastructure, the basis for trust and a standard.
• Commercial: the visual editor, hosted registry & collaboration, curated archetypes, and premium generators (e.g. Figma components, native targets).

The moat is deliberately not the generator — that's an open implementation of an open spec. It's the editor experience, the curated content, and the hosted infrastructure.

#The three tiers

• Free — local generation, the CLI, core and the React target, one design system, the curated archetypes. Public/local registry only. One seat.
• Team — everything in Free, plus the private registry hosting (the gate), collaboration and roles, version history, multiple design systems, and design exports. Priced per editor seat. Consumers remain free and unlimited.
• Enterprise — everything in Team, plus SSO/SAML, bring-your-own / self-hosted registry, audit and governance, premium generators as they ship, and support commitments.