Floating licenses
To make the most of your licenses by quickly transferring them between users, you can use Floating mode. With this feature, unused licenses are released after just 20 minutes.
How it works
Scenario | License release time | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
User closes their IDE | Immediately | Right before closing, the IDE notifies License Vault that the license is no longer in use, and it's released immediately. |
User's machine is switched off or goes offline | Within 20 minutes | How does License Vault determine that the machine is offline? Each IDE connected to License Vault sends a license refresh request every 10 minutes. That's how we know that the license is still in use. If License Vault fails to receive the scheduled request, it assumes that the machine is switched off or offline and that the license is no longer in use. Given the interval between requests, it can take License Vault up to 10 minutes to register this. When is the license released? Every 10 minutes, License Vault checks each license to see how long ago it was last refreshed. Licenses that have been refreshed within the last 20 minutes remain allocated. Licenses that have not been refreshed for 20 minutes or more are released. In total, it usually takes License Vault 20 to 30 minutes from the moment the user's machine goes offline to release the license. |
Floating mode pricing and availability
Depending on your preferred IDE billing model, Floating mode may be free or carry an additional 20% charge.
Postpaid IDE licensing | Prepaid IDE licensing | |
|---|---|---|
Floating mode pricing | Free | An additional 20% charge applies |
Floating mode availability | Always on | Optional, can be enabled by request |
Postpaid IDE licensing
With postpaid IDE licensing, Floating mode comes at no additional cost. All postpaid licenses are floating by default. You only pay for the licenses, not for their distribution.
Prepaid IDE licensing
With prepaid IDE licensing, there's an additional 20% charge for all licenses distributed in Floating mode. This charge is calculated monthly based on the peak number of IDE licenses that were simultaneously in use during the month. You pay an extra 20% on top of the standard monthly subscription price for each of your prepaid licenses that were used in Floating mode.
How to enable Floating mode
To enable Floating mode for your prepaid licenses, get in touch with our Sales team.
How the surcharge is calculated
To calculate the surcharge for a particular product for one month, we use this formula:
In the formula:
Pis the full annual subscription price for this product.0.2is the 20% surcharge coefficient.Note that
(P / 12) * 0.2is rounded to the nearest cent or its equivalent in other currencies.Nis the maximum number of licenses that were simultaneously in use during the month.
For example, let's say you used 100 IntelliJ IDEA licenses in April. Supposing that the full annual subscription price for IntelliJ IDEA is $599, we get the following calculation:
Which means you'll pay $998 for April.
Which licenses are excluded from the surcharge?
The surcharge doesn't apply to:
Licenses for IDEs, .NET tools, and product packs that weren't in use.
Plugin licenses, regardless of usage.
Postpaid licenses.