What is a 'token' ?

All NETGuard pricing plans include a pay-per-use option that use Token as virtual currency

It means that you will only pay for what you use, you will not be charged monthly and pay for days when you want to obfuscate your file only once in a while.

A token is a digital coin that you spare in order to unlock the premium statu, and therefore be able to select premium obfuscation techniques.

That means you can select as many obfuscation features as you want, in the end you will always pay only one token per file.

Let's take an example with an imaginary program :

Filename	MD5	Token cost
myFile v1.0.0.0	4D1D4F2CF85A8F1DB9966B5196570ECB	1
myFile v1.0.0.0	4D1D4F2CF85A8F1DB9966B5196570ECB	0
myFile v1.0.0.0	4D1D4F2CF85A8F1DB9966B5196570ECB	0
myFile v1.0.0.1	D03EFD80B566869F7A526DC084B7E749	1
myFile v1.0.0.0	4D1D4F2CF85A8F1DB9966B5196570ECB	1

Edited files, even only one byte, are considered to be different !

As you can see, if the last file you try to protect has its MD5 the same as the current file you want to obfuscate, the token cost is null. That is meant to easily fix compatibility issue with strong obfuscation features.

However, if you change / update the original file, its MD5 will change, that is why it will costs you a token.