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Find My Data is licensed per active user — a person who actually signs in to and uses 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 billable.

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Editions

Start an evaluation, upgrade, and manage your license at account.findmydata.io. Larger active-user allotments are available — contact support through the portal.

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What counts as an active user

  • 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, start an evaluation or purchase, 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: you choose your expected active-user count at checkout and can adjust it as your usage grows; the deployment-reported count gives both sides the actual figure at renewal.

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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.