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Realtime avatars that run completely locally, off the internet, on Linux PCs and terminals: for Business and Enterprise clients, arranged through sales.

Business & Enterprise Fully offline

What it is

Offline license is only available to Business and Enterprise clients who want to run realtime avatars completely locally, off the internet — e.g. kiosks, trade shows, ATM machines, embedded screens. Linux PCs and terminals; arranged through sales.

Plans: Business & Enterprise.
Billing: credit-based, from 100,000 credits, metered on the machine.
Connectivity: no required reconnection.

Contact sales to arrange an offline license.

Where it renders

Question	Fully offline
Where the avatar renders	on your Linux PCs and terminals
Where the conversation runs	agreed with sales for your site
What reaches bitHuman	usage is metered on the machine; no reconnection is required
Network	off the internet; creating the avatar happens online first

Fully offline. Offline license is only available to Business and Enterprise clients who want to run realtime avatars completely locally, off the internet — e.g. kiosks, trade shows, ATM machines, embedded screens. Linux PCs and terminals; arranged through sales. The avatar renders on the machine and usage is metered there, with no required reconnection. Models: Essence 1, Essence 2 and Expression 2.

Creating the avatar from a portrait happens in the bitHuman cloud; the finished avatar model then runs on your machines.

Models available here

Model	Fully offline	How
Essence 2	—	Coming later
Expression 2	—	Coming later
Essence 1	Yes	Linux x86_64 and ARM64, bitHuman 2.11.16 or later; Business & Enterprise
Expression 1	—

Essence 1 runs fully offline on Linux (x86_64 and ARM64) today. Essence 2 and Expression 2 offline come later. Expression 1 runs in the bitHuman cloud only.

Speed

An offline machine is a Linux PC. How fast each model renders on a Linux PC with no GPU is on CPU only (no GPU).

Price

From 100,000 credits, credit-based and metered on the machine. Business & Enterprise; arranged through sales.

Limits

Linux PCs and terminals only. Phones, Macs and browsers stay online: the Swift package, the Android SDK and the web embed check your credential when a session starts.
Creation is online: you create the avatar from a portrait in the bitHuman cloud before it runs offline.
Not file rendering: bithuman render and Python’s bithuman.offline write a video file and sign in online, on any plan that can render.

First command

Available today: Essence 1 on Linux x86_64 and Linux ARM64. Essence 2 and Expression 2 come later.

Buy a pack for the offline license in the console (Developer → Offline licenses), choosing the model and the platform it will run on. A pack is at least 100,000 credits at the self-hosted rate. You can cancel it for a full refund until a machine redeems it. Through the API: POST /v1/offline/entitlements with "platform": "linux-x86_64" or "linux-aarch64".
Redeem it once, on the machine that will run it, while it is online, with bitHuman 2.11.16 or later and your account’s API secret:
```
pip install -U "bithuman>=2.11.16"
export BITHUMAN_API_SECRET=...
python -m bithuman pack redeem
```
This binds the pack to this machine and installs it. If the install step fails, python -m bithuman pack redeem --file <pack> retries it from the copy kept in ~/.bithuman/packs/, with no connection and no second charge.
Run offline. The machine now renders Essence 1 avatars with no network and no API secret until the pack’s credits are spent. Credits are metered on the machine, at the self-hosted rate for active session time. It never has to reconnect.

Choosing between modes

A Linux PC with a connection: CPU only (no GPU), on the Creator plan or higher.
Your own machines, online: Your servers.
Inside an app on the phone or in the browser: On the device.
Nothing to run yourself: bitHuman cloud.
All five side by side: Deployment options.