# Subscription and STYGION ID

> What the licence costs, what it locks, and how to link a panel to a STYGION ID.

Source: https://stygion.eu/docs/panel/predplatne
Updated: 2026-08-30

![Admin → Subscription](https://stygion.eu/shots/panel/subscription.webp)

The panel costs **€4.90 a month**. One subscription covers **every
panel** on a single STYGION ID — whether you run one or eight, it is the
same amount.

The first week from the install is free and needs nothing at all: no
connection, no account, no card.

## What the licence locks

One thing. **Creating a new server.**

These are the things it never locks, not when it expires and not when
STYGION is down entirely:

- signing in to the panel
- the console
- files and SFTP
- backups, restores included
- scheduled tasks
- databases
- start, stop, restart
- deleting a server

What is running keeps running. If we could make you pay by switching
your servers off, that would be a hostage rather than a product.

## Linking a STYGION ID

In the panel: **Admin → Subscription → Link a STYGION ID**. (Before
0.3.0 it lived in account Settings, where it did not belong — it is a
decision about the whole panel, not about one person.)

The panel shows an eight-character code. Sign in at stygion.eu, open
your panel licence and type it in. The panel asks every three seconds
and notices on its own — you do not have to come back and press
anything.

The code is short-lived. When it expires, click again for a new one.

> Reloading the page mid-pairing shows the **same** code, not a new one.
> Otherwise you would be typing in a number nobody is waiting for.

## When the panel cannot reach us

The subscription is checked every six hours and the answer is written
down. No screen ever waits on our servers — everything renders from what
the panel already knows.

When it cannot reach us, the last known state stands for another
**fourteen days**. Our outage is our problem, not yours. When even those
fourteen days run out, the thing that locks is, again, only creating new
servers.

The panel keeps two things apart that look alike and are not:
**"your subscription ran out"** and **"we could not reach STYGION"**. The
subscription card says which one it is.

## Unlinking

**Admin → Subscription → Unlink.** The panel forgets the token and
carries on with what it last knew until that runs out — the same as when
we are unreachable. Tidying up is not punished.

You can also unlink from the other side, at stygion.eu. The panel
notices on its next check and says so.

## Buying

The subscription cannot be bought from inside the panel yet — the shop
on our side is not wired up. Until it is, we arrange it with people
individually.

Next: [Your first server](/docs/panel/prvni-server).