It has its own 4 license levels as well as trial where you can test any of the paid license levels for 60 days.Ħ0-day free trial license is available for all paid license levels. CHR is a RouterOS version intended for running as a virtual machine.

License levels described until now does not apply to Cloud Hosted Routers (CHRs).

include 15-30 day free support over e-mail.

It’s installed on, which means that each Router needs a separate(*) - BGP is included in License Level3 only for RouterBOARDs, for other devices you need Level4 or above to have BGP.

It’s also important to note that each license is bound to the drive.If you want, you can keep using RouterOS on that final release - RouterOS license never expires. In fact, the RouterOS license allows you to install any upgrades that MikroTik might release, up until the last upgrade of the next major release since you purchased your key.Of interfaces, include limited technical support over email and It’s important to note that regardless of license level chosen,Īll RouterOS installations allow you to use unlimited number.(You can see full details in the table below, and in the 'What Is RouterOS' user guide which is downloadable from our Documentation section above). The lowest level is 3, which has wireless client functionality and limited number of active users, and the highest is level 6 which doesn’t have any limitations. There are four types of RouterOS license keys available, indicated by a “level number”. To do this, you need to purchaseĪ license key. After installing the free trial version of RouterOS on a PC, you will certainly want to keep using it.It can also be installed on a PC and will turn it into a router with all the necessary features - routing, firewall, bandwidth management, wireless access point, backhaul link, hotspot gateway, VPN server and more. MikroTik RouterOS is the operating system of RouterBOARD.

Mikrotik license level 5