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Find My Data has two tiers — Free and Paid — and the platform is identical in both: every connector, every feature, full scale, no time limit. The only thing that is ever billed is people. Your first two users are always free, and each user beyond the first two is $49 per user per month (USD). There is no evaluation clock, no feature matrix, and no edition to choose. A Free deployment is not a trial — it is the full product, licensed for two people, for as long as you want it.

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Why the first two users are free

Rolling out a data-governance platform takes time. You install it, connect sources, run the first scans, show the record to security, privacy, and the business, and secure budget — and all of that is typically one or two people. Find My Data is free for exactly that phase. You enroll (and pay for) more users only when you are ready to put data domain owners, auditors, and executives in front of the record.

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What it costs at a glance

Start free, upgrade, and manage your license at account.findmydata.io.

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What counts as a user

Billing counts active users — people who actually sign in to and use the platform (data domain owners, governance admins, reviewers, auditors). It is never your organization’s headcount: in a 100,000-person company, perhaps a few hundred people ever touch Find My Data, and only they are countable.
  • A person counts from the moment they first sign in to your deployment.
  • They stay counted for 90 days after their most recent sign-in (a trailing window), then roll off automatically. The count rises immediately with use and falls slowly with inactivity, so occasional users aren’t churned in and out month to month.
  • People in your organization who never sign in are never counted — the scanned population is irrelevant to licensing.
  • Your deployment computes the number itself from its own session history. Nothing about who the users are ever leaves your environment; the deployment reports only the single count, and you can inspect the exact payload at GET /api/controlplane/telemetry-preview.

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How licensing behaves

  • Activation: register at the Account portal and activate your deployment with a one-time code (POST /api/controlplane/activate-online). The license is a signed token your deployment verifies locally — no phone-home is required to keep running.
  • Renewal: the deployment renews on a schedule with an offline grace window, so a network outage never bricks anything.
  • Non-destructive expiry: an expired or exceeded license gates starting new scans. It never locks you out of your data, your audit trail, review, or exports. Your data is yours.
  • True-up: on the Paid tier you choose your expected user count at checkout and can adjust it as your usage grows; the deployment-reported count gives both sides the actual figure at renewal. The first two users are free at any count.

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AI costs are yours, directly

Building your organization’s data model (taxonomy drafting, analyst planning) runs on your own AI provider account — Azure OpenAI or Anthropic. Find My Data never meters, marks up, or bills for AI usage. The deployment records tokens and an estimated cost per task so you can budget: see GET /api/governance/ai-usage and the platform overview.