Speckle has announced a new hosted-service business model, scheduled to launch on February 2, 2026. The company says it is moving away from seat-based pricing toward plans based on projects and usage, arguing that counting individual users creates friction when model and project data needs to move between designers, coordinators, construction teams, project managers, and clients.
The announcement connects the change to Speckle’s broader shift from geometry exchange toward a shared data layer for coordination, analytics, automation, integrations, and Speckle Intelligence. Speckle says existing users are being contacted with transition details, and that Enterprise features will be made available during the transition period.
For free software users, the key detail is that this is a change to Speckle’s hosted commercial plans, not a withdrawal of the self-hosting option. Speckle states that its core platform components remain open source, including the server, connectors, conversion, viewer, and related infrastructure, so organisations can still run their own Speckle stack if that better matches their budget, governance, or data control requirements.