Licences needed

What it means

The number of seats, runners or units to buy — a vendor-level figure, because a licence is bought once for the organisation, not once per application. Multiplied by the cost per licence it gives the yearly licence cost, which the model counts once and allocates to applications by their case counts.

Getting the unit right matters: named-user, concurrent-user and parallel-runner licensing produce very different counts for the same team.

Why it matters to the cost

Summing licences per application would bill the same seats four times over for a four-application estate — a mistake that flatters whichever tool has the cheapest licence. Entering the true organisational count once, and letting the model apportion it, is what keeps the per-app views honest.

Typical values

Five to twenty for a single team; the number of parallel runners rather than people for execution-based licensing.

Typical values describe a category of tool — AI-native, codeless, script-based, homegrown, manual — never a named product. Why we do not price named products.