Pricing
Cheap software, sold like software.
No quote to request, no discovery call, no salesperson who needs to “understand your process” before naming a number. You pick a licence, you pay in a browser, a key arrives by email with an invoice attached. The whole transaction should take less time than setting the plate height.
Demo
For finding out whether it suits the way you work.
- Every feature unlocked, nothing crippled
- Your own DXF and DWG files
- Nesting, toolpaths, simulation, costing
- G-code output limited to 3 parts per plate
- A cheerful watermark in the G-code header
Workshop
One machine, one operator, one honest price.
- Unlimited G-code output
- All 82 post-processor presets, and your own
- Every update released during the year
- Email support from the people who wrote it
- Invoice with your VAT number, automatically
Shop
Office, table and the laptop that lives in the van.
- Everything in Workshop, three times over
- One licence key, three activations
- Shared post-processor and material presets
- Priority on bug reports you file
Prices exclude VAT. EU business customers with a valid VAT number are invoiced under the reverse charge; everyone else pays the VAT rate of their own country, because that is what the law says and arguing with it is not a hobby of ours.
The demo
Not available yet — and we would rather say so.
The public beta demo is planned for Christmas 2026. Until then there is nothing to download, and a download page that quietly does nothing would be a poor way to begin a working relationship.
Leave an address below and you will get exactly two emails: one when the demo is downloadable, and one when the licence shop opens. No newsletter, no “5 tips for better nesting”, no drip campaign.
Tell me when the demo is ready
How buying will work
Four steps, no humans required
You pick a licence and pay
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a bank transfer through the usual European methods. The payment page is run by the payment provider, so your card details never touch our server — we would rather not have them.
You give us the invoice details
Company name, address, VAT number if you have one. The VAT number is validated against the EU register while you type, so a typo is caught before it becomes an accounting problem.
The key and the invoice arrive by email
Within a minute of the payment clearing. The invoice is issued automatically and the key is generated automatically; nobody is sitting at a desk waiting to press a button on your behalf.
You paste the key into AlgoNest
Once. It checks itself, tells you when it expires, and reminds you a fortnight before. If the machine has no internet — and plenty of good ones do not — there is an offline activation that takes one copy-paste in each direction.
Nothing here takes money yet
The shop opens with the beta. These pages exist so the plumbing can be built and tested long before anyone's money is involved — which is the correct order to do it in.
Questions we expect
Before you ask
Why annual and not once, forever?
Because a plasma CAM program that stops being maintained is worth nothing, and “perpetual licence, updates extra” is the same arrangement with more paperwork. The key carries an expiry date, renewal is one click, and the price is low enough that this should not be the most interesting line on your invoice.
What happens when the licence expires?
AlgoNest keeps opening, keeps showing your nests and keeps exporting DXF. G-code output goes back to the demo limit until you renew. We are not going to hold last Tuesday's job hostage.
Does it phone home while I work?
No. The key is checked when you enter it and once in a while afterwards. Between those moments the program does not care whether you have a network, and your part files never leave the machine.
Can I move the licence to another computer?
Yes. Deactivate on the old one, activate on the new one. If the old one is at the bottom of a skip, email us and we will release the seat — this is a normal thing that happens to computers in workshops.
Can I see the source?
No — AlgoNest is proprietary software, and the licence you buy is a licence to use it, not to copy or redistribute it. What you get instead is a program that is actually maintained: a signed build that installs without a toolchain, a fix queue you can put things into, and somebody who answers email. The demo is there so you never have to take any of that on faith.
Refunds?
The demo is the trial, and it is not a crippled one — it produces real G-code for your machine. Find out there whether AlgoNest suits you. After that, the short version is: we refund faults, not second thoughts. The long version is just below, written out properly.
Returns and key revocation
Try before, not after.
This is the one place on the site where we are going to sound like a contract, because being vague about money helps nobody. It is also short.
The demo carries the risk, so the purchase does not
Before you pay, you can install AlgoNest on the same computer you will use, import your own drawings, nest them, generate G-code and load it into your own controller. Every question that matters — does it read my files, does it drive my table, does it fit how I work — is answerable for free, in your own workshop, on your own steel.
Because that is true, a purchase is not a trial. Once the key is issued we do not refund a change of mind, a change of job, or a colleague who turned out to prefer something else.
What we do refund
- The key never activates and we cannot make it activate.
- The licensed build does something the demo did not, and it is our fault.
- We promised your controller was supported and it turns out it is not.
- You were charged twice, or charged after cancelling.
Tell us within 14 days of the purchase, at [email protected], quoting the order number. We would much rather fix the fault than take the money back, and usually do — but the choice is yours, not ours.
How a licence is withdrawn
You ask, in writing
An email with the order number and the address the licence was bought with. No form to fill in, no reason required if the reason is one of the four above.
We deactivate every seat on the key
Immediately, on our side. The key stops being valid at the program's next licence check — within seven days at the latest, and at once if the computer is online.
AlgoNest drops back to demo limits
It keeps opening. It keeps showing your nests, and it keeps exporting DXF. G-code output returns to three parts per plate. Nothing you have already made is taken away from you, and no file on your disk is touched.
The money and the credit note follow
Refunded through the payment method you used, by the payment provider, with a credit note against the original invoice. Usually a few working days, and out of our hands once it is sent.
You uninstall, or you do not
We ask you to remove the licence file. We do not send anything onto your computer to check, and there is no software on your machine reporting to us about it. This part runs on trust, which has worked adequately for the last forty years of selling software.
Two exceptions, stated plainly
Custom post-processors are not refundable once delivered. That is bespoke work built from your own sample program and drawing, and it cannot be un-built. It is also why we ask for both files before starting — see how that works.
A chargeback revokes the key too. If a payment is reversed through the bank rather than through us, every seat on that key is deactivated automatically. We would honestly rather you just sent the email.
If you are buying as a consumer rather than a business, you have a statutory right of withdrawal under EU law, and nothing above takes it away from you. At checkout you will be asked to agree that the download starts immediately, which is what waives that right for digital goods — a normal step, and one you may decline, in which case you wait fourteen days for the key. Almost nobody chooses to wait.
Found a problem instead?
Bug reports go into the development queue directly, with the version, your machine and the nest that broke it. It is the fastest way to get something fixed, and considerably more satisfying than swearing at a screen.