About Licensing

This type of license is available for Attended, Studio, and StudioX Robots.

A type of license that empowers the user. It enables him or her to register any number of Robots on any machine, as long as the same Active Directory username is present on all of them. The user is not allowed to use multiple Robots simultaneously.

This type of license is available for Attended, Studio, and StudioX Robots.

A type of license that helps users that work in shifts, as licenses are consumed only when you actually want to use a Robot.

A concurrent license is consumed in Orchestrator, depending on its type, when:

As a result, you can have hundreds of Robots defined on multiple machines but only use, for example, 50 licenses at a specific moment in time, as that is the maximum number of users who simultaneously connect their Robot to Orchestrator.

This type of license is only used with Unattended/NonProduction/Testing purposed machines.

When online and connected to Orchestrator, a machine consumes a number of licenses equal to the runtime capacity of the machine template used to connect it to Orchestrator. The runtime represents the maximum number of Robots that can simultaneously run on a specific machine and it is manually customizable.

A Windows workstation can run only one background process at a time, and therefore it is recommended to assign only one runtime to it.

A Windows Server machine can have more Robots executing processes simultaneously, and therefore you can assign more runtimes to it.

For example, if you have 10 users on a machine and they are all defined as Attended Robots in Orchestrator, then 10 Attended licenses are consumed. If you have the same user defined on 10 different machines, then only 1 license is consumed.

The Attended page displays all the usernames that have been defined as Robots in Orchestrator, along with the last login time, the number of machines they are assigned to and if the users are currently connected. Lastly, a list of all the Robots defined on a specific username can be displayed, by clicking the View Robots button.

No matter how many users are defined in Orchestrator, a license is consumed only when the Assistant is opened.

For example, you can have 50 users on 300 machines, all defined as Attended Robots in Orchestrator, but consume no licenses at all, because no one is using their Robot (the Assistant is not opened). If 2 users connect from the same machine, 2 licenses are consumed.

The Attended Concurrent page displays all the usernames that have been connected as Robots to Orchestrator, along with the last login time, the number of machines it is assigned to and if the Robot is licensed. Lastly, a list of all the Robots defined on a specific username can be displayed, by clicking the View Robots button.

Regardless of the type of Attended license you have, it is possible to run Attended Robots offline for a specified number of hours. This means that Robots do not lose their licenses if, for any reason, they lose their connection to Orchestrator. This parameter is configurable from the tenant Settings page.

The Studio or StudioX license works similar to the Attended license, however, it only grants you access to connect your Studio or StudioX to Orchestrator. The right to use Studio is granted by a local license, or by connecting it to Orchestrator.

If Studio or StudioX is licensed locally, no additional license is consumed from Orchestrator's license pool as long as you selected the External license check box when you created the Robot in Orchestrator. For Automation Cloud, local licenses are no longer available, you can read more about it here

Please take into account that connecting Studio to Orchestrator only works with Active Directory users. If you have local users, each of them is counted and consumes a license.

In this model of licensing, we count the maximum number of Unattended/NonProduction Robots that are able to execute processes simultaneously. This number is given by the total number of runtimes allocated to all the online machines. You can distribute the licenses across all your machines.

Please note that it is not possible to allocate more runtimes than there are available. For example, if you have 4 remaining runtimes available, and 2 already allocated to a machine, then you can only allocate a maximum of 6 runtimes to that machine.

In the License page, the total number of runtimes available on all online machines is displayed.

You can assign a machine a custom number of runtimes, which determine the number of Unattended/NonProduction licenses consumed if the UiPath Robot service is running on the machine. The number of Robots defined on a machine is not at all dependent on the number of runtimes.

For example, if on a machine with 5 Robots, you assign only 3 runtimes, it means only 3 licenses are consumed. If you execute 5 jobs or schedule all the Robots on that machine, the following occurs:

If on a machine you have only one Unattended/NonProduction Robot and assign its machine 30 runtimes, then 30 licenses are consumed if that machine is online.

If on a Windows workstation machine, you have 10 users (Robots) on it, you can only execute one process at a time, and you have to leave the number of runtimes to its default value, 1. If you assign more than 1 runtime to a Windows workstation machine and try to execute multiple jobs at the same time, errors are thrown.

If the UiPath Robot service is running on a given machine, it is displayed as licensed. If there are no more licenses available, the machine is not going to be licensed.

All the machines that have Robots defined as Unattended are listed in the Unattended or NonProduction page, along with the number of allocated runtimes, the number of defined and running Robots, and the machine's license status. Additionally, you can edit the number of runtimes allocated to a machine, and display a list of the Robots defined on that machine.

We recommend updating your entire UiPath suite to v2018.2 to fully take advantage of the new flexible licensing model offered.

Licensing v2016.2 Robots in a v2018.3 Orchestrator is not supported.

If you are using a v2018.2 Orchestrator with v2017.1 Robots the following limitations exist for Attended Robots: