Email in, key out. No card, no verification email, no sales call: paste the key into one command and your agent is reading normalized machine data.
Normalize, identify, coverage, OEE, energy and shift reports are free on
this key. Predictions, diagnosis and fleet health need a card, they
return 402, which is billing, not a broken key. Full tool list
and rates on pricing; the API
reference is in the docs.
The key authenticates against forge.foundrynet.io and
mcp.foundrynet.io immediately, the same 13 protocol adapters, 19 verticals and 2,086 curated mappings paying customers hit. A free key runs the same code on the same corpus: nothing is downgraded for it. Transport availability is the same for everyone too, and is not uniform: of the 15 transports the kernel declares, MQTT Sparkplug B reads metrics but does not yet decode protobuf payloads, and SNMP and Modbus RTU are declared but ship no client. Reach serial through a Modbus TCP gateway. See serial retrofit.
3 machines, 100 calls an hour, and the paid tools gated behind a
402. Those are the only differences. When you outgrow them
the same key upgrades: you do not re-integrate.