# Paid plans If you use REST framework commercially we strongly encourage you to invest in its continued development by signing up for a paid plan. **We believe that collaboratively funded software can offer outstanding returns on investment, by allowing users and clients to collectively share the cost of development.** Signing up for a paid plan will: * Directly contribute to faster releases, more features and higher quality software. * Allow more time to be invested in documentation, issue triage and community support. * Safeguard the future development of REST framework. REST framework will always be open source and permissively licensed, but we firmly believe it is in the commercial best-interest for users of the project to fund its ongoing development. --- ## Making the business case Our successful Kickstarter campaign demonstrates the cost-reward ratio of shared development funding. With *typical corporate fundings of just £100-£1000 per organization* we successfully delivered: * The comprehensive 3.0 serializer redesign. * Pagination API including new offset/limit and cursor pagination implementations, plus on-page controls. * The versioning API, including URL based and header based versioning schemes. * Customizable exception handling. * The metadata APIs for handling `OPTIONS` requests. * Templated HTML form support, including HTML forms with nested list and objects. * Internationalization support for API responses, currently with 27 languages. * Improvements to the browsable API. * The admin interface. * Support for Django's PostgreSQL HStoreField, ArrayField and JSONField. * Ongoing triage and community support, closing over 1600 tickets. This incredible level of return on investment is *only possible through collaboratively funded models*, which is why we believe that supporting our paid plans is in everyone's best interest. --- ## Individual plan This subscription is recommended for freelancers and other individuals with an interest in seeing REST framework continue to improve. If you are using REST framework as an full-time employee, consider recommending that your company takes out a [corporate plan](#corporate-plans).