Yes. You can activate your license on local, staging, and many host temporary domains. Those activations do not count against the paid site limit. Freemius decides which hostnames qualify.
TLDs treated as dev or staging
*.dev- Dev or staging TLD
*.dev.cc- DesktopServer
*.test- Dev or staging TLD
*.local- Dev or staging TLD
*.staging- Dev or staging TLD
*.example- Dev or staging TLD
*.invalid- Dev or staging TLD
*.myftpupload.com- GoDaddy
*.cloudwaysapps.com- Cloudways
*.wpsandbox.pro- WPSandbox
*.ngrok.io- Tunneling
*.mystagingwebsite.com- Pressable
*.tempurl.host- WPMU DEV
*.wpmudev.host- WPMU DEV
*.websitepro-staging.com- Vendasta
*.websitepro.hosting- Vendasta
*.instawp.xyz- InstaWP
Subdomains treated as dev or staging
local.*- Dev or staging subdomain
dev.*- Dev or staging subdomain
test.*- Dev or staging subdomain
stage.*- Dev or staging subdomain
staging.*- Dev or staging subdomain
stagingN.*- SiteGround (
Nis an unsigned integer) *.wpengine.com- WP Engine
dev-*.pantheonsite.io- Pantheon
test-*.pantheonsite.io- Pantheon
staging-*.kinsta.com- Kinsta
staging-*.kinsta.cloud- Kinsta
localhost (any port) is also treated as local.
Freemius can update this list. See their docs: License utilization.
