UiPath licensing is the set of terms under which UiPath sells its automation platform: robotic process automation (RPA) robots, the Studio development tools, the Orchestrator management service, AI agents and agentic orchestration (Maestro), document processing, process mining and the Test Cloud testing products. The Licensing Policy describes the platform as available in four environment options: Automation Cloud (SaaS hosted by UiPath), Automation Cloud US Public Sector, Automation Suite (self-hosted on physical or virtual Linux) and individually installed products on Windows.[1]
UiPath products licensed for a fee are subject to the UiPath Master Software and Services Agreement (MSSA) or a similarly named agreement made with the customer.[3] The current published MSSA is version v.20260501. Its licence grant is “limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, non-transferable” and runs during the License Term “solely for their internal business purposes and in accordance with the applicable Licensing Policy and the associated Documentation”.[2] The Licensing Policy at licensing.uipath.com says that, unless a plan states otherwise, SKUs are “available on a term-based subscription”, with other metrics such as user type and consumption applying as described.[1] Catalog proof: Licence is limited to internal business purposes and the Licensing Policy.
UiPath runs two commercial licensing plans side by side. Unified Pricing replaces the many consumables of the older plan with a single Platform Unit; Flex uses separate AI Units, Apps Units, Robot Units, API calls and Agent Units.[6] Each plan “consists of distinct platform, robot, and user licenses, and consumption units”.[5] A Flex customer can switch to Unified Pricing at renewal or earlier.[6]
Editions
UiPath sells plans rather than editions. The public pricing page lists Automation Cloud plans called Community, Basic, Standard and Enterprise, and Test Cloud plans called Standard and Enterprise. Only Basic shows a price: “Starting at $25 per month”, with limited scale, hosting in the European region and UiPath Bronze Support; the page notes that “Basic is evolving”. Standard and Enterprise are priced through sales; Standard offers a 60-day trial.[4]
| Plan | Commercial model | Main limits | Deeper article |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Reached only when a trial or paid plan expires; commercial use allowed | 1 tenant, EU only, 25 Express Users, no robots[7] | Unified Pricing and Platform Units |
| Community (Unified Pricing) | Free, under the Community Agreement | 1 tenant, 1 Pro user, 1 Plus user, 1 Unattended Robot, monthly Credits[12] | MSSA, Community and evaluation terms |
| Basic Trial, Standard Trial | 60-day non-production trials | Standard Trial: 2 each of Basic, Plus and Pro users, 2 Unattended and 2 Automation Test Robots, 8,000 Platform Units[7] | Unified Pricing and Platform Units |
| Basic | Self-service subscription | Up to 5 Basic, 5 Plus and 1 Pro user; 2 robots; 1 tenant[4] | same |
| Standard, Enterprise (Unified Pricing) | Sales-led term subscription | Licences “As purchased”; unlimited tenants[7] | same |
| Enterprise (Flex) | Yearly plan with custom licence types and counts; Platform SKUs Standard and Advanced | As purchased[8] | Flex plan licensing |
Metrics
UiPath uses three families of units: user licences, robot and service licences, and consumption units.
User licences. A Named User licence “ties the usage of UiPath software to an individual user” and “must be obtained for each user accessing the product or service”. Each Named User may use the licensed products from up to three devices with the licensed account. The Multiuser or Concurrent User licence type “is no longer available for purchase for any UiPath plan”.[9] Unified Pricing sells three tiers, Basic User, Plus User and Pro User, plus the free Express User. Flex sells named user types such as Attended, Citizen Developer and Automation Developer.[1]
Robot licences (runtimes). The Licensing Policy defines a Runtime as “an execution slot an unattended robot can use to execute an automation”; a machine’s runtime capacity equals the maximum number of unattended robots that can run on it at once.[1] Runtimes come as Unattended, NonProduction and Testing types, and are assigned to machine objects in Orchestrator.[10] Attended robots are licensed with the user and “cannot be used as Unattended Robots”.[1]
Consumption units. Unified Pricing meters services in Platform Units, “credit-based consumption units specific to the Unified Pricing commercial plan”.[10] Flex uses Agent Units, AI Units and Robot Units, among others. Smaller units cover particular services: Test Execution Units, Data Service Units and the Community Credits pool.[10][12]
Counting / floors
Users. One Named User licence is needed per individual, regardless of up to three devices.[9] In Unified Pricing, User License Management must be enabled to view and manage user licences.[7] The Uni Basic Named User SKU carries a “Minimum quantity of 5 licenses per transaction”.[1] Catalog proof: A Named User may use the licensed products from up to three devices; Uni Basic Named User has a minimum of five licences per transaction.
Robots. Runtimes are pooled per tenant. When a host machine connects to Orchestrator, the runtimes of its machine object are consumed from the tenant pool; they return when it disconnects.[10] UiPath states that “The number of machines should match the number of runtimes.”[10] The counting detail is covered in UiPath robots, Orchestrator and on-premises licensing. Catalog proof: A connected machine consumes the runtime capacity of its machine object.
Consumption. Platform Units are consumed per operation at published standard rates, and all Platform Unit-based SKUs form one fungible “Unified Unit Pool”.[1] Units expire at the end of the licence term; on multi-year terms they are delivered yearly and each year’s units expire with that year.[1] Enterprise organizations may consume past the purchased amount at organization level unless an administrator sets a tenant or folder limit; trial and Community organizations may not.[10] Catalog proof: All Platform Unit-based SKUs form one fungible Unified Unit Pool; Consumption units expire at term end and are issued yearly on multi-year terms; Enterprise organizations may overconsume units at org level; trial and Community may not.
Contract floor. The MSSA forbids exceeding “the number of allocated Software licenses” and mixing production and non-production Software without written permission.[2] Catalog proof: Do not exceed allocated licences or mix production and non-production software.
Virtualization & partitioning
UiPath does not count processors or cores. The runtime definition treats physical and virtual machines alike: “A machine (physical or virtual) has a runtime capacity equal to the maximum number of unattended robots that can execute simultaneously on that machine.”[1] A Windows Server machine may run several robots at once and can be given several runtimes, while a Windows workstation runs only one background process at a time.[10] Under Flex, UiPath-hosted VM and serverless cloud robots are licensed through Robot Units instead of runtimes.[10] The retrieved documents contain no host, socket or hard-partitioning rule of the kind described in virtualization and partitioning.
Cloud / BYOL
The same licences can run in Automation Cloud or on premises, but not in both at once. Under Flex, a product managed by Orchestrator must use one deployment environment; the licence may be moved during the term, with a three-month overlap allowed once per licence term. Under Unified Pricing, SKUs entitle deployment in Automation Cloud or Automation Suite, and Windows-installed Orchestrator is allowed only “if deployment cannot be done on Automation Cloud or Automation Suite”.[1] In Automation Cloud, the cloud organization is the licence management authority for all products; on premises, Automation Suite and standalone Orchestrator manage licences at host, organization or tenant level.[11] Customers on paid Unified Pricing plans may bring their own LLM subscription, and customer-managed models are charged at reduced rates for eligible products.[7][10] Catalog proof: Flex: one deployment environment per product licence, three-month migration once per term; Unified Pricing: Automation Cloud or Automation Suite, Windows-installed only if those are not possible.
Programs
- Unified Pricing plan. Platform tier (Standard or Enterprise), Basic, Plus and Pro users, Unattended and Automation Test Robots, and Platform Units. Includes access to 100 Express User licences.[1]
- Flex plan. Yearly Enterprise plan with custom licence counts and Platform SKUs Standard and Advanced.[8]
- Community plan. Free, with a fixed set of licences; under the Community Agreement only organizations with less than USD 5 million in annual revenue (with Affiliates) may use it commercially.[12][13]
- Free plan and trials. Basic Trial and Standard Trial last 60 days; when a trial or paid plan expires the organization drops to Free, all tenants are disabled and one may be re-enabled.[7][14]
- AI and Agentic usage pool. A shared monthly AI allowance per user licence, with top-ups and paid-unit fallback.
- Disaster Recovery licence and Standard Support. Covered in the deeper articles.
Audits and compliance
The MSSA lets UiPath verify, at its expense, that use, access, installation or deployment complies with the agreement; on-site verification, directly or through a subcontractor, may happen “no more than once every twelve (12) months”. If a verification finds a non-conformity the customer “will immediately address it”.[2] On request the customer must also provide “details and use reports of all Authorized Users and Affiliates having received access to the Technology”.[2] The MSSA prohibits use as a service bureau, managed service or commercial hosting environment without written approval.[2] Day-to-day evidence comes from the Licenses page in Automation Cloud or Automation Suite and the License page in standalone Orchestrator.[11] For general method, see software license audit. Catalog proof: UiPath may verify use; on-site verification at most once every 12 months; No service bureau, managed service or hosting use without written approval.
Out of scope
This page does not cover the Peak and WorkFusion SKU families listed in the Licensing Policy, the vertical-solution Platform Unit bundles (Financial Crimes, Lending, Merchandising, Inventory Management, Commercial Pricing), UiPath Marketplace and Developer agreements, or professional services. UiPath publishes no general price list beyond the Basic plan and the Test Cloud add-on prices on its pricing page.[1][4]