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Asked: 2026-05-26T21:58:11+00:00

I am just trying to look at different licensing models and potential technical C++

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I am just trying to look at different licensing models and potential technical C++ implementations.

Suppose you have a desktop application including several algorithms (A1, A2, A3). This application is communicating with some server (potentially in the cloud). These “local” algos may be used independently. Is there any solution/framework out there which could allow us to bill their usage independtly?

For example, , one user uses algo A2 and A3. Before saving files, the software computes the final bill, sends it to some server, asks the user to pay it and generate the results file.

This would allow to ship a potentially expensive software “for free” to the users and without the risk for them to spend an enourmous amount of money upfront without being sure this software will actually be heavily used.

Related question: what are the risks?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Though your Pricing model is feasible for large scale and probably same as what cloud offers.
    I don’t think any native application would be scalable/feasible with this model.

    Most of the License of software’s that are too costly to buy for each user, they give a floater license and a cap limit of number of simultaneous users.

    Pay as you use is great but it is same as cloud computing but then question is simple.

    Do you want to reinvent the wheel?

    Unless you don’t want to invest in your own cloud server, you can easily put your application on other cloud.

    If you are ready for investment into build and maintain your own cloud then you should go ahead.

    Edit:
    You can use web service or the payment method. Expose the web service for calculating the price to be incurred. I would personally use Java or C# for this purpose.
    as java and C# have enough support for it, for the wrapper around the C++ code i would use any of the jni or C++/cli language support.

    Another thing is, I have not come accross any open source tool for it, each web service has it’s own requirements. You can get the architecture but no ready made work.

    C++ code->webservice->price billing->result returned to caller.

    Regarding Technical Difficulties.
    It would not be possible to do things completely in C++, You may require many other tools with C++.

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