
Allegro CL
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Allegro CL, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Allegro CL's own pricing page, checked 8 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free Express Edition | Free | Limited technical support; commercial support requires contacting Franz · Free |
| Enterprise Edition | Priced on request | Includes Professional components, unrestricted AllegroCache, ODBC, MySQL Direct Connect, and Allegro Runtime · Contact Franz for a customized quote |
| Professional Edition | Priced on request | For early application development; includes AllegroCache Pro, IDE, Prolog, Java tools, SSL, and other development components · Contact Franz for academic or commercial pricing |
The facts
Each one read from Allegro CL's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Commercial licensing
- Commercial users who distribute or deploy applications developed with Allegro CL require a deployment license.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Applications can be delivered as a DLL or standalone image, and the Enterprise Edition includes Allegro Runtime for dynamic standalone applications.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Development tools
- Allegro CL includes an IDE, Allegro Prolog, a regular-expression matcher, a runtime analyzer, and source-level debugging tools.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The product page lists AllegroGraph, Oracle and MySQL direct connections, ODBC, Java interoperability, FTP, and SSL socket streams.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The Professional Edition is designed for developers in early application development, while Enterprise is intended for developers who plan to build and deploy applications.checked 8 Oct 2026
- LLM and graph capabilities
- The product page describes extracting structured and unstructured information from LLMs into AllegroGraph and using a built-in vector database for text retrieval and question answering.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Notarization
- The Allegro CL 11.0 feature list says its native Apple Silicon port is notarized.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Operating systems
- Allegro CL 11 lists support for Linux x86-64 and ARM, macOS on Apple Silicon and x86-64, Windows x86 and x86-64, and FreeBSD x86-64.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Persistent storage
- AllegroCache supports persistent CLOS objects, dynamic schema evolution, ACID transactions, client-server use, and databases with billions of objects.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Allegro CL is a Common Lisp development system for developing and deploying neuro-symbolic applications that combine symbolic reasoning, large language models, and graphs.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Security features
- The product page lists SSL socket streams and SHA512, RMD160, and HMAC-SHA1 message-digest support.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- Franz provides product documentation, FAQs, and patches, and accepts bug reports and technical questions by email.checked 8 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1984checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Lafayette, California, USAchecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free edition limits
- The Free Express Edition download page offers limited technical support to people who complete the download survey.checked 8 Oct 2026
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