UiPath Licensing - Know How
UiPath Products may connect through shared functionalities or have similar licensing models, despite being commercialized individually. The list of Products in this document may not exhaustive.
The article covers the various licensing options available in UiPath. I have also tried to explain the various terminologies in licensing currently in practice for UiPath licensing.
The SKUs offered in the Flex Plan provides entitlements to deploy and license the product in any of the 3 deployments:
- Automation Cloud - The Cloud Native UiPath Platform delivered as SaaS from UiPath - hosted in Azure, Managed by UiPath
- Automation Suite - UiPath Platform delivered as a single, containerized suite on environment of choice - on-premises or cloud subscription to any of the major providers.
- Individual Products - UiPath Platform products individually installed and managed on-premises. Products are installed on supported windows operating systems and physical/virtual hardware on-premises.
| # | Product SKUs | Licenses Included | Pre-requisites & Business Rules |
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| 1 | UiPath - Flex - Action Center - Named User | Action Center Apps Task Capture Data Service Integration Service |
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| 2 | UiPath - Flex - Attended - Named User | Action Center Apps Attended Robot Data Service Integration Service Task Capture |
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| 3 | UiPath - Flex - Automation Developer - Named User | Action Center Apps Attended Robot Data Service Integration Service Studio StudioX Task Capture Test Manager User |
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| 4 | UiPath - Flex - Citizen Developer - Named User | Action Center Apps Attended Robot Data Service Integration Service StudioX Task Capture |
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| 5 | UiPath - Flex - Process Mining Business User - Named User | Action Center Process Mining for Business User Task Capture |
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| 6 | UiPath - Flex - Process Mining Developer - Named User | Action Center Apps Attended Robot Data Service Integration Service Process Mining for Developers Studio StudioX Task Capture Test Manager User |
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| 7 | UiPath - Flex - Tester - Named User | Test Manager User Task Capture |
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| # | Product SKUs | Licenses Included | Pre-requisites & Business Rules |
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| 1 | UiPath - Cloud - Robot Units Bundle - 72K | Automation Cloud Robot Data Service Integration Service |
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| 2 | UiPath - Flex - Unattended Robot | Data Service Integration Service Unattended Robot |
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| 3 | UiPath - Flex - Unattended Robot - Non-Production | Non-Production Robot Integration Service |
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| 4 | UiPath - Flex - Unattended Robot - Test | Testing Robots Data Service Integration Service |
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| # | Product SKUs | Licenses Included | Pre-requisites & Business Rules |
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| 1 | UiPath - Flex - AI Unit Bundle - 10M | Enable customers to deploy, manage and train Machine Learning (ML) models, including Task Mining, Document Understanding, Computer Vision, out-of-the-box (OOTB) models provided by UiPath/UiPath Marketplace, and customer’s own ML models. |
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| 2 | UiPath - Flex - AI Unit Bundle - 1M | Enable customers to deploy, manage and train Machine Learning (ML) models, including Task Mining, Document Understanding, Computer Vision, out-of-the-box (OOTB) models provided by UiPath/UiPath Marketplace, and customer’s own ML models. |
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| 3 | UiPath - Flex - AI Unit Bundle - 60K | Enable customers to deploy, manage and train Machine Learning (ML) models, including Task Mining, Document Understanding, Computer Vision, out-of-the-box (OOTB) models provided by UiPath/UiPath Marketplace, and customer’s own ML models. |
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| 4 | UiPath - Flex - Automation Hub | Automation Hub3 Task Capture |
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| 5 | UiPath - Flex - Computer Vision | Computer Vision |
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| 6 | UiPath - Flex - Insights | Insights |
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| 7 | UiPath - Flex - Insights - 50 Designer Users Add-on | Insights |
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| 8 | UiPath - Flex - Integration Service API Calls Bundle - 3M | Integration Service | Currently available on Automation Cloud |
| 9 | UiPath - Flex - Integration Service API Calls Bundle - 6M | Integration Service | Currently available on Automation Cloud |
| 10 | UiPath - Flex - Process Mining Rows Bundle - 20M | Process Mining |
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| 11 | UiPath - Flex - Test Management | Test Manager |
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| 12 | UiPath - High Availability Add-On | HAA |
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UiPath – Action Center – Named User
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UiPath – Attended – Named User
OR UiPath – Attended – Multiuser |
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UiPath – Automation Developer – Named User
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UiPath – Citizen Developer Named User
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UiPath – Multiuser Add-On
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UiPath – Process Mining Business User – Named User
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UiPath – Process Mining Developer – Named User
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UiPath – Tester – Named User
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UiPath - Unattended Robot - Test
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UiPath – AI Robot
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UiPath – AI Robot Pro
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UiPath – Robot – Non-Production
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UiPath – Unattended Robot – Concurrent Runtime
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UiPath - Computer Vision - On-Prem
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UiPath - Connector for Salesforce
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UiPath - Document Understanding Page Bundle – 10M
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UiPath - Document Understanding Page Bundle – 1M
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UiPath - Document Understanding Page Bundle – 40k
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UiPath - High-Availability Add-On for Orchestrator
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UiPath - High-Availability Add-On for Orchestrator NonProduction
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UiPath - Insights - Orchestrator Add-On
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UiPath - Insights - Orchestrator Add-On - Non-Production
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UiPath - Orchestrator - Basic
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UiPath - Orchestrator - Basic Upgrade
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Upgrade from UiPath - Orchestrator - Basic to UiPath - Orchestrator - Standard
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UiPath - Process Mining Server
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UiPath - Process Mining Server - Non-Production
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UiPath - Test Manager
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Guidelines and Restrictions
- Multiuser and Named User licenses for the same product cannot co-exist on the same Orchestrator key.
- Studio may be activated using a Robot license only for limited purpose (and not for the purpose of developing workflows), as follows:
- Activation through the Attended Robot or Testing Robot is limited to debugging (no editing allowed)
- Activation through Unattended Robot or NonProduction Robot is limited to troubleshooting (editing allowed)
- Studio and Attended Robots used without Orchestrator are activated with standalone licenses.
- Attended Robots cannot be used as Unattended Robots.
- NonProduction designated products cannot be used in production. Automation workflows must not be executed in production using NonProduction licenses.
- Disaster Recovery may be enabled only for certain products, as allowed by UiPath, and is subject to the same rules and restrictions as the production license of such product. The production license and the Disaster Recovery setup cannot be enabled at the same time
- For Products Orchestrated through Flex Plan or Cloud Plan, customer must choose one deployment environment for the Product. Customers are not allowed to use the same Product license on Automation Cloud, Automation Suite, and Individual Products (Windows installer) at the same time. UiPath allows customer to change the deployment environment (ie. Automation Cloud, Automation Suite, Individual Products) during the license term. UiPath grants a 3 (three) months term for completing the migration from one deployment environment to the other. In deviation to the above, during the migration period, customer can deploy the same Product license in both environments. This deviation is limited to once per license term
Product Definitions
UiPath has 3 types of environment options:- Automation Cloud is a cloud-based SaaS solution that manages automation work and resources in one place. It enables the Customer to deploy, operate, and scale its robot factory.
- Automation Suite enables you to install the full UiPath suite of products and capabilities anywhere (existing VMs on Azure, AWS, GCP, on-premises) with scaling, HA, and backup capabilities.
- Individual Products UiPath Platform products individually installed and managed on-premises. Available products are installed on supported windows operating systems and physical/virtual hardware on-premises
Action Center is used to action tasks to be performed or undertaken by users when dealing with long-running workflows, and user intervention is required before proceeding to the next step in the workflow.
Activities are software templates for automation projects created and/or made available by UiPath.
AI Center is used to develop, train, store and deploy machine learning models.
AI Robot is the runtime for serving ML Skills and run ML training jobs. One AI Robot can serve 2 ML Skills concurrently or run 1 ML training job.
Apps is a low-code application development platform that enables you to quickly build custom business apps that connect to data across cloud or on-premises system.
Automation Cloud is a cloud-based SaaS solution that manages automation work and resources in one place. It enables the customer to deploy, operate, and scale its robot factory.
Automation Cloud Robots are UiPath hosted robots, fully SaaS – provisioned and managed by UiPath, giving you a virtual machine on which to run automations.
Automation Hub is used to identify and evaluate automation ideas, manage their implementation, and store automation artifacts.
Computer Vision is used to automate applications by identifying screen elements with machine learning technology.
Data Service is a data storage service, allowing the customer to build automations that can leverage capabilities like relational data types, integrated security, and instantaneous provisioning and deployments.
Document Understanding enables users to perform data extraction from documents through a combination of digitization, classification, and extraction capabilities used for machine learning models.
Insights provides an Orchestrator-integrated platform for data modeling and analytics. It is used to visualize the customer’s data across desired metrics, it enables the customer to discover new analytical insights, track performance indicators, and be alerted of errors or anomalies.
Integration Service enables integrations/connections across all products in UiPath platform. It standardizes authorization and authentication for the systems you want to integrate with.
Orchestrator is used to deploy, manage, and monitor products. One Orchestrator instance may be split in several tenants, each of them being a separate logical environment.
Process Mining is a process analysis method to get process insights from data in IT systems. It is a fact-based technique to show the exact process as it occurred in practice.
Robot is used to execute automation workflows , subject to specific usage limitations. Types of robots include:
Attended Robots - Allows the execution of workflows as a direct result of a human action and under human supervision. More details here.
Unattended Robots - Allows the execution of workflows without human supervision through the management capabilities offered by UiPath Orchestrator. More details here.
Studio is used to design and maintain automation workflows with additional automated testing capabilities. Studio includes tools to integrate testing into development and automation process formerly known as Studio Pro.
StudioX is a no-code environment used to design and maintain automation workflows.
Task Capture is a process discovery tool that allows users to illustrate and document the processes and actions they are performing.
Task Mining automatically identifies and aggregates process workflows, and is used to record the actions of users, analyse them, and expose the results across dashboards.
Test Manager is a web-based interface that enables test planning, requirements traceability, and defect reporting along with an orchestration layer which facilitates integration with ALM tools.
License Definitions
AI Units Metrics that is used by all AI Center AI/ML solutions -- including 1st Party AI models like Document Understanding, Task Mining, Out of the Box ML Models, and 3rd party and customer’s Bring Your Own Models. These AI Units are applicable for both cloud and on-premises-based deployments (compute resources used will consume additional AI Units).
Attended Robots Allows the execution of workflows as a direct result of a human action and under human supervision. More details here.
Concurrent Runtime When online and connected to Orchestrator, a machine consumes a number of licenses equal to the runtime capacity of the machine used to connect it to Orchestrator. The runtime represents the maximum number of processes that can simultaneously run on a specific machine.
Customer is an entity or an individual having received the right to use products by virtue of an agreement.
Disaster Recovery is the copy of a license that may be used solely as needed to regain use of the associated software for disaster recovery and business continuity following a catastrophic loss.
HAA (High Availability Add-on) grants access to supported redundancy and stability solution for one multi-node Orchestrator or Automation Suite instance.
Multiuser is a license model where a license is assigned to 1 user out of a pool of authenticated users. This is available only for On-Premises. Each Multiuser license adding up to 3 distinct authenticated users to the maximum number of users that can be granted access. Multiuser may be displayed as “Concurrent User” in legacy platform version
Named User is a license model where a license is assigned to, and may only be used by, a uniquely identified user.
NonProduction is available only for designated software and refers to non-production use, such as internal development, internal training, and evaluation, excluding any production use
Production refers to use of the software according to its intended commercial designation.
Product, Service, or Software may be used interchangeably, and each refers to any software component, service, and the underlying technology proprietary to UiPath. UiPath has the right to license or distribute to its customers.
Robots Units Metrics that is used for Automation Cloud Robots - VM or Serverless. VM Automation Cloud Robots consumes RUs per month and Serverless Automation Cloud Robots consumes RUs per min usage.
Runtime is an execution slot an unattended robot can use to execute an automation. A machine (physical or virtual) has a runtime capacity equal to the maximum number of unattended robots that can execute simultaneously on that machine.
Unattended Robots Allows the execution of workflows without human supervision through the management capabilities offered by UiPath Orchestrator
Refer here for license policy of version 2020.3.
Refer here to my previous article about UiPath Licensing
