{"id":14468,"date":"2026-09-24T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playgama.com\/blog\/?p=14468"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:30:29","slug":"how-do-gdevelop-pricing-open-source-licensing-and-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playgama.com\/blog\/business-faqs\/how-do-gdevelop-pricing-open-source-licensing-and-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"How do GDevelop pricing, open-source licensing, and commercial usage work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

GDevelop’s editor and engine are open source under the MIT license, and GDevelop is free to use. There is no royalty or revenue-share requirement on games you build and sell, and the MIT license permits commercial use, modification and redistribution of the engine’s source.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At a glance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Fact<\/th>\nValue<\/th>\nSource<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
GDevelop editor and runtime license<\/td>\nMIT license<\/td>\ndeveloper.mozilla.org<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Royalty on games made with GDevelop<\/td>\nnone required<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Export targets for GDevelop games<\/td>\nweb (HTML5) and more<\/td>\ndeveloper.mozilla.org<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

GDevelop is open source under the MIT license, which covers both the editor and the runtime engine that ships inside your exported game. MIT is a permissive license: you can use GDevelop to build commercial games, sell them, keep 100% of the revenue, and there is no royalty owed to the GDevelop project. You can also fork or modify the engine’s source code, since MIT allows that for any purpose including commercial ones.<\/p>\n

Because GDevelop exports to HTML5, the practical next question is how to get that build onto platforms that pay out ads or purchases. <\/p>\n

Where to publish a GDevelop web build<\/h2>\n