LicenseShield Alternative
Same MT4/MT5 licensing job. Several times the capacity per dollar, and no meter on your success.
LicenseShield (barmenteros FX) is a solid, established option for MetaTrader-only licensing — this page is a factual, sourced comparison for anyone evaluating it against LicenseFort, not a takedown.
The per-license math
Same-tier comparison, verified against LicenseShield's public pricing.
| Tier | LicenseShield | LicenseFort | Per-license price | Your advantage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $19/mo · 15 licenses | $29/mo · 100 licenses | $1.27 $0.29 | 4.4× more for the money |
| Pro | $49/mo · 50 licenses | $79/mo · 500 licenses | $0.98 $0.16 | 6.2× more for the money |
| Business | $149/mo · 150 licenses | $199/mo · 2,500 licenses | $0.99 $0.08 | 12.5× more for the money |
LicenseFort pricing pulled live from the same data that drives /pricing and checkout. LicenseShield pricing verified August 13, 2026 against their public pricing page — re-check before relying on it if you're reading this much later; prices change.
Where the two products actually differ
You don't get billed for your own success
LicenseShield meters daily verifications per plan — 10/day on Free up to 4,000/day on Business. Every customer who opens their EA burns quota. LicenseFort never meters checks, on any plan: you pay for active licenses, not for how often your customers run their own software.
Trials aren't a paywall
LicenseShield's trial length is gated by plan — 7 fixed days on Free, up to 90 days only at $149/mo. LicenseFort's trial length is a per-product setting you control, up to 365 days, identical on every plan including Free.
Straightforward billing for your own subscription
Pay LicenseFort by card, PayPal, or regional methods through Paddle — our merchant of record, handling tax and compliance for you — or by crypto via NowPayments. (Selling to your own customers still runs through your own payment processor; LicenseFort licenses the software, it doesn't yet handle your downstream checkout — same as LicenseShield.)
Beyond MetaTrader
LicenseShield is MT4/MT5 only. LicenseFort protects MT4/MT5 Expert Advisors and indicators the same way, plus Windows .exe applications, Python, .NET, Go, WordPress plugins, and Chrome extensions — one dashboard if your product line ever grows past MetaTrader.
Full row-by-row breakdown on /compare/licensefort-vs-licenseshield.
We know trust is the real objection
barmenteros has run LicenseShield since 2011 — that track record is real, and we're not going to pretend otherwise. What we can offer instead: a documented offline-grace window so your customers' software keeps running through any outage, a live health check you can hit yourself right now, and a public commitment to what happens to your licenses if LicenseFort ever shuts down — details most licensing vendors, including LicenseShield, don't publish.
Read the full reliability commitment →Migrating an existing product off LicenseShield?
We'll do the assisted integration work free (normally $299) for anyone moving an existing product over — concierge onboarding, no charge for the switch itself.
See the migration offer →LicenseShield pricing and plan details verified August 13, 2026 against their public pricing page. Prices and plan details change — re-check before relying on this if you're reading it much later. LicenseFort pricing pulled live from the same data that drives /pricing and checkout.