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The following table describes the differences between each licensing model.
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2013| 2025 | Licensing Model 2019 | Licensing Model |
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2025Changing existing license terms after September 2, 2025, requires upgrading to Licensing Model 2025. | Changing existing license terms after September 2, 2025, requires upgrading to Licensing Model 2025.| 2013 |
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Changing existing license terms is possible without limitations. | Tip |
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| During the transition to Licensing Model 2025, existing customers can get a special offer from X-Formation based on their current usage and needs. Contact X-Formation Sales for more information. |
| Changing existing license terms after September 2, 2025, requires upgrading to Licensing Model 2025. | Changing existing license terms after September 2, 2025, requires upgrading to Licensing Model 2025. |
| Feature availability is based on purchasing the Standard or Pro Plan. | No limitations on access to features introduced after v6.1.x. | Beginning with License Statistics v6.2, some new features will not be available for use with Licensing Model 2013. Existing functionality (implemented prior to v6.2) will continue to work with Licensing Model 2013 |
.No limitations on access to features introduced after v6.1.x. | Features are limited based on purchasing the Standard or Pro Plan. | Removing the imported license server does not reduce the imported license server's license usage (license servers or features) reduce user and license server license usage.Removing data does not reduce license usage. Disabling/removing license servers may reduce usage; however, you must wait for the user count to drop with time. | Removing data (license servers or features) does reduce user and license server license usage. | Removing the imported license server does not reduce the imported license server's license usage. |
| Available to all customers. | Not available to new customers. | Not available to new customers. |
Available to all customers| Number of license servers and hosts are unlimited. | One counter for all license servers. | Number of actively monitored Realtime License Servers is limited by Realtime License Server license count. |
One counter for all license servers. | | Number of license servers and hosts are unlimited. | One counter for all license servers. | Number of Imported License Servers is limited by Imported License Server license count |
.One counter for all license servers| . |
| Number of license servers and hosts are unlimited. | All license servers are calculated. | Imported License Servers are calculated using data from the last 3 months |
.All license servers are calculated. | Number of license servers and hosts are unlimited. | Separate Realtime and Imported Users usage countingOne counter for all Users in entire history available for reporting. | Counts only usernames from last 30 days (including Imported Users, Realtime Users, and Denials). Historical users are not counted towards the license limit. |
Denials are not counted towards licensing. | | One counter for all Users in entire history available for reporting |
(including Denials)| . | Separate Realtime and Imported Users usage counting. |
| Counts only usernames from last 30 days (including Imported Users, Realtime Users, and Denials). Historical users are not counted towards the license limit. |
Realtime Users are calculated from the last 14 days. | | One counter for all Users in entire history available for reporting (including |
Realtime Users| Denials). | Denials are not counted towards licensing. |
| Counts only usernames from last 30 days (including Imported Users, Realtime Users, and Denials). Historical users are not counted towards the license limit |
.Imported Users are calculated in entire history| . | One counter for all Users in entire history available for reporting (including |
Imported | Realtime Users). | Realtime Users are calculated using data from the last 14 days. |
| Counts only usernames from last 30 days (including Imported Users, Realtime Users, and Denials). Historical users are not counted towards the license limit. | One counter for all Users in entire history available for reporting (including Imported Users). | Imported Users are calculated in entire history. |
| Data removal is allowed for data older than the |
previous calendar year| last 30 days. | Data removal is allowed for data older than the previous calendar year. | Data removal is allowed for data older than the |
last 30 daysUsername and User-Host licenses are supportedGrace Period and Light Restricted Access Mode allow for up to 125% of overuse. | Username license is supported, and monitored hosts are limited to 125% of the total users allowed for monitoring. The host limit can be lifted by purchasing a High Performance Computing (HPC) add-on, which allows unlimited hosts to be monitored.
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Grace Period and Light Restricted Access Mode allow for up to 125% of overuse. | | Username and User-Host licenses are supported. |
| Subscription license, perpetual license available for |
Perpetual license, subscription in | special circumstances. | Perpetual license, subscription |
in | license available for special circumstances. |
Subscription perpetual in | subscription license available for special circumstances. |
| Available for License Statistics |
v5.x, v6.x and | v7.x. | Available for License Statistics v6.x and v7.x. | Available for License Statistics v5.x, v6.x and v7.x. |
Moving to Licensing Model 2025
All customers have the ability to move to Licensing Model 2025. To do this, please contact X-Formation Sales to get receive a special offer, modify your license configuration, and deliver get a new license to you.
Due to changes in the way that Licensing Model 2025 counts licenses, new values for usage calculations will need to be set in the new license. Please be prepared to provide our sales representative with the new values, as described below in "Determining new license usage."
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For more details about determining license usage for your specific Licensing Model, see: