License Model for Confluence?

[Daniel Vlad]

We have the 250 confluence user licenses. What happens if I have more users in use, as my quota allowed?
Does Confluence use a concurrent licensing model?

What happens when I have 270 users in user management? not all are active at the same time.

Many Thanks

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No.  Confluence has a tiered licence model for number of available users.

If you have 250 licences, then you can have up to 250 accounts enabled for access.  If you go over that, then Confluence effectively becomes read-only until you reduce the count, or apply a licence for the next tier up.

With your 270 users, they only count towards your 250 if they can log in and use Confluence.  Users who are not in the "can use" group(s) (see global permissions to see which are those groups) do not count, and nor do users who have been flagged as "deactivated"

[Daniel Vlad]

many thanks for your quick reply

[Thomas Schlegel]

Hi Daniel, 

look here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/what-happens-when-i-reach-my-license-user-limit-in-confluence-432801619.html

If you reach your license limit, your instance will become read-only. 

[Daniel Vlad]

also many thanks for your quick reply