• Concurrent User License
• Concurrent Software Licenses

Hello, What is the difference between based on Installations and based on Concurrent Users? And when do you use one, or the other? Many of the major software vendors are moving away from the concurrent user model to a pay-per-use model, as a response to the growth of cloud-based offerings. Now ESRI has also decided to discontinue concurrent licenses in favor of single user licenses. Based on Concurrent Users is when you have a number of licenses that can be used by a several users. For example, let's say you have 10 licenses of Autodesk Revit, and you have 100 installations of said product, only 10 users can use the product at the same time.

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Concurrent User License

The phrase used to describe a type of purchase or license agreement that is based on the number of simultaneous users accessing the software. For example a 10-user concurrent use license would allow ten users to log in and use the software at one time, but the eleventh user attempting to log in would be blocked, and unable to initiate a session until one user logs out.

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