Frequently Asked Questions About TYPO3 AI
Yes. AI Foundation is free and open source under GPL-2.0-or-later, published on the TYPO3 Extension Repository and on GitHub. There is no price, no domain limit and no time limit, and it runs in full on production. It does need a free licence key, which is the next question.
Because our licence manager is shared across the whole AI Universe, and we have not separated AI Foundation from it yet.
ns_license licenses our premium extensions and it carries the AI Credits balance, so installing AI Foundation also means installing it and entering a key. The key costs nothing, has no commercial terms, no domain limit and no expiry.
We would rather it did not work this way, and we may change it. Right now it does, and we would rather tell you than have you find out after installing.
Your licence key and your domain. Nothing else: no content, no prompts, no images, no IP addresses, no telemetry.
Not in the default mode. You configure your own provider API key, and your content goes from your server straight to that provider. They bill you directly. No T3Planet server is in that path.
The one exception is AI Credits, an optional prepaid balance you can buy from us if you would rather not manage provider keys. In that mode we route the request, so this answer does not apply to it. AI Credits is never required and is not the default.
No. Bring your own keys is the default and always will be. AI Credits exists for teams who would rather buy usage from us than open accounts with AI providers. It pays for usage only and never replaces a licence.
No. AI Foundation is the free base. The extensions that build on it, such as AI Assistant, AI Chatbot, AI Search and AI Accessibility, are premium products with their own licences. Free foundation, paid extensions.
Yes. AI Foundation has no domain limit. The premium extensions are licensed per production domain, and multi-domain options for those are on their own product pages.
You register your own providers and choose a default. Local and self-hosted models are supported through Ollama, so you can run the whole thing without any external AI service if that is what your project needs.
Your content stays on your server and the licence check sends only your key and domain, so you keep control of the data path. What that means in practice varies depending on the model you choose: a locally hosted or EU-hosted model keeps data in jurisdiction, a provider outside the EU does not. We will happily walk through your specific setup rather than putting a badge on it.
Under Article 50, transparency duties fall on the deployer, which is you as the site operator. AI Foundation ships audit logs, AI-labelling helpers and human approval through TYPO3 workspaces to help you meet them. That is compliance-ready tooling, not a compliance guarantee.
No retrieval-augmented generation: you can configure an embedding model per provider, but retrieval and reranking are not implemented. The richer per-table MCP tooling needs Table Discovery or code registration first, rather than working on every table automatically. mTLS for the MCP server is not shipped yet.
We would rather you knew that before installing than after.
Yes. It is GPL-2.0-or-later. You can read the source, fork it, modify it and redistribute it under the terms of that licence.
Community questions are welcome on GitHub and in the TYPO3 Slack channel. Paid support comes with the premium extensions; the response commitment is on the support page. Security reports go to security@t3planet.de and we acknowledge within three business days.