The engine is free.
Partners sell certainty.
Yakugate's engine is MIT-licensed and always will be — that's not a marketing trick, it's the business model. Partners don't sell you the software; they sell everything that turns software into a running, supported, compliant messaging business.
What you get for free. Forever.
The MIT license is one paragraph of freedom: use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, sell. No copyleft obligations, no dual-license bait, no per-message tax.
- The complete gateway engine — every process, every protocol, every feature
- Run it anywhere: your metal, your cloud, your rules
- Modify it, fork it, embed it — even commercially
- All future engine releases, forever
- Community support via GitHub issues
What partners add on top.
An engine is not an operation. Distribution partners are licensed to deliver the proprietary layers and services around the open core — under the Yakugate name, in their territory.
Management portal & UX
The polished web portal — dashboards, account management, rate cards, records search, role-based admin — is partner-delivered, not part of the open engine.
SLAs & production support
Guaranteed response times, escalation paths, upgrade planning and 24/7 incident response from engineers who run this gateway for a living.
Managed cloud
Fully hosted Yakugate — provisioning, scaling, monitoring, patching and backups handled for you, in your region, under your compliance regime.
Customizations & adapters
Custom vendor adapters, client-specific API dialects, bespoke routing logic and private integrations — built, owned and maintained under commercial terms.
SMS firewall
Operator-grade traffic firewalling — grey-route detection, AIT blocking, flooding protection and content policy at carrier scale — delivered and tuned by partners on top of the open engine.
SS7 / SIGTRAN connectivity
Direct signaling access — SS7 and SIGTRAN stacks, MAP operations and real network HLR lookups — provisioned, licensed and operated through partners with the carrier relationships to back it.
Migration services
Moving off Kannel, Jasmin or a commercial gateway? Partners map your accounts, dialects, routes and rate cards so clients never notice the switch.
Compliance & local presence
Regional regulatory know-how, data-residency deployments, audit support and contracts with a company in your jurisdiction — not just a repo.
Self-hosted vs. partner-backed.
Both run the same engine. The difference is who answers the phone at 3 a.m.
| Self-hostedMIT · free | Partner-backedcommercial terms | |
|---|---|---|
| Gateway engine (all 15 roles) | ||
| HTTP & SMPP, routing, billing, DLR lifecycle | ||
| Self-host on your infrastructure | ||
| Community support (GitHub) | ||
| Management portal & admin UX | — | |
| SLA-backed production support | — | |
| Managed / hosted deployment | — | |
| Custom adapters & API dialects | — | |
| SMS firewall | — | |
| Grey-route & spam detection | — | |
| SMS flooding & traffic-pattern monitoring | ||
| Sender-ID abuse & spoofing controls | ||
| Content filtering, black/whitelisting | ||
| Automated blocking & account thresholds | ||
| SS7 / SIGTRAN connectivity | — | |
| Migration from legacy gateways | — | |
| Compliance & regulatory assistance | — |
Official distribution partners.
Partner status covers the Yakugate brand, the proprietary portal and commercial services in each territory — the open-source engine itself remains free for everyone, everywhere.
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We're expanding the partner network region by region — reach out to the founder to talk exclusivity, terms and territories.